Private

Who said it?

24 Dec 2011

The sky is not falling. The sky has not fallen. The sky will not fall

A lawyer for US Army Private Bradley Manning (pictured)

The result reflects that it may be a...

3:56AM

How they see it

12 Dec 2011

Vincent Lau
Age: 43
Sector: Education

3:10AM

Tokyo-bound trainers get triple boost ahead of Sprinters Stakes

2 Oct 2010

Caspar Fownes and Ricky Yiu Poon-fai have their eyes on a bigger prize in Tokyo tomorrow, but they warmed up in the right way yesterday, carving the National Day Cup meeting up between them with...

6:56AM

Charting corruption

12 Sep 2010

The Philippines is ranked 139th, and 24th within Asia, on Transparency International's 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (the smaller the score, the less corrupt the country). Hong Kong ranked...

8:52AM

Above All rises to occasion - on time

2 Feb 2009

Queues are starting to form each race day now for 'first win bonuses' after the Jockey Club paid out HK$900,000 on two more yesterday to bring the total to four payouts for the past week.

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3:30PM

Jockey Club quietly changes the rules to allow Momentous to slip in to Hong Kong

1 Oct 2008

Let's face it, the Jockey Club has the power to make up the rules as it goes along, with no better motivation than pandering to one group or another, but who noticed that change to the import...

8:44AM

Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Events diary

Today, HK: The HKGCC hosts a venture capital/private equity partnership conference: 'A New Dawn.' For details, visit www.chamber.org.hk

5:45PM

Years of effort for little result

Private streets - a key target of Team Clean in its fight to spruce up Hong Kong - have been a problem for years.

Many are strewn with refuse and feature leaking pipes, unauthorised...

9:06PM

Little chance of getting back exam script

Can you still remember the days when you sat for a public examination? You knew, then, that you could never get the original script back once you had handed it in. Of course, you knew you would...

5:56PM

Youngsters flatter over 1,000m dash

The Private Purchase Griffin scheme has been one of the real success stories of recent years and last night's second event produced a couple of youngsters with promising futures.

5:12PM

Strength of character pays off for troops seeking new jobs

HONG Kong soldiers being made redundant, including two of those rescued from the Malaysian jungle, are sought after by employers because of their ability to face tough challenges, the army says....

2:11AM

Civil Service housing strategy problem

I AM a civil servant and in total agreement with the author of the letter headlined, ''End housing allowance anomaly'' (South China Morning Post, June 9) and have little doubt that there is...

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