18 Jul 2012

Green group complains about Yau's Europe trip

19 May 2012

The secretaries are back, thanks arguably to the hit US television drama Mad Men, which revolves around a New York advertising agency in the 1960s replete with the period's misogyny and political...

15 May 2012

Political assistants, who have long come under fire for failing to justify their generous salaries, will have their pay drastically cut in July in response to a public outcry, while ministers will...

10 May 2012

3,000 public housing households 'overcrowded'

Some 3,000 'overcrowded' households live in public rental housing where they have living space of less than 5.5 square metres per...

2 Apr 2012

Why 'Long Hair' felt he had no choice

Injustice anywhere,' said Martin Luther King, 'is a threat to justice everywhere.' In Hong Kong, prosecutions are not controlled by an independent director of public prosecutions, as in many...

The University of Hong Kong's Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention reported last month that the suicide rate now stands at 13.6 per 100,000 people, and predicted a rise in 2012.

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Why secretary's announcement seems to be full of hot air

More reasons why Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau's announcement on air quality objectives should be treated with...

Against extra bureaucratic procedures

I refer to the report (''Holes in plan' to plug voting gap', December 20).

Political assistants have been widely criticised for being overpaid. Now they could see their salaries cut by as much as 40 per cent, says the secretary for constitutional and mainland affairs....

A former champion gymnast who went from begging to working for one of the mainland's richest men has resigned, saying he was insulted by two scholars and his boss' secretary.

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