Quotes of the Week

Politics has been foul ... we have a bit of a problem with the budget, but John [Tsang Chun-wah] is taking care of that

Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, complaining about increasingly confrontational politics at a Foreign Correspondents' Club cocktail

If monkeys won't go, I go

A music student who quit her postgraduate study at Taiwan's National Sun Yat-sen University after being attacked by monkeys on the campus. She even wrote to President Ma Ying-jeou for help

Seventy per cent of people support Hong Kong police to enforce the law. Only 20 per cent like hurling bananas

Charles Ho Tsu-kwok, a standing committee member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, criticising radical lawmakers who make a habit of throwing objects at government officials in the legislature

The only thing that the production has in common with real pornography is a lot of repetitive motion that ends up dulling the senses

Financial Times critic Ken Smith, dismissing the much-hyped Beijing Dance Theatre's muddled world premiere of Golden Lotus at the Hong Kong Arts Festival