23 Nov 2011

Labour unions have called for the statutory minimum wage to be raised next year to HK$33 an hour:

1:28AM
17 Jun 2006

WAR IS SHOCKING and terrible. When war breaks out, generally accepted standards of civilised behaviour erode rapidly and life alarmingly reverts to the primitive law of the jungle: survival of the...

8:42PM
7 Jun 2006

Parliament speaker Aziz Dweik yesterday described the proposed referendum as part of a US bid to overthrow the Hamas-led cabinet that emerged from the Islamic movement's victory in January's...

7:48PM
30 Dec 2004

According to the Young Post survey of 106 young people, the biggest stories of the year were:


* US presidential election (28.3% of votes)


* The Link Reit saga (10.4%)...

5:02PM
29 Nov 2004

Democracy is a simple enough concept - in a nutshell, government run by the people. As straightforward as that may seem, it is a principle being too widely ignored by some nations claiming to be...

11:06AM
12 Feb 2004

The letter headlined 'Middle East anomaly?' (February 9) is hardly convincing.

6:27AM

Yasser Arafat appeals to the extremists to quit the suicide bombing, but to no avail. He has lost control.


But, of course, it was Israel's intention to destroy the ability of the...

5:28AM

In your editorial of May 3 headlined 'Talking peace' you refer to Yasser Arafat as a 'national hero'.


He is, in fact, one of the fathers of modern terrorism who the international...

12:43AM

Israel's attacks on Yasser Arafat and his Palestinian Authority will not serve the cause of a long-term peace in the Middle East.

8:12AM

KHARTOUM (July 19): SUDAN has told its businessmen to open their shops or face death.

10:41AM

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had talks with Vice-Premier Qian Qichen in Beijing yesterday and was due to meet President Jiang Zemin as part of a tour to garner support for the declaration of a...

1:01AM

Shipping firm Polish Ocean Lines Group (Grupa PLO) will be privatised once a foreign consultant completes an analysis of the group. The company intends to spend US$200 million on its investment...

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