QUOTES OF THE WEEK

'A number of parts of it [the MTR] will become so excessively used that at best the quality of service will decrease to an unacceptable level,' - consultant Alan Cooksey warning of the need to reduce demand, or expand, the Mass Transit Railway.

'After all, we tag the body and give the ashes back to the relative within the day,' - Shenzhen crematorium spokesman explaining that staff were too busy to allow relatives of executed Hong Kong drug smugglers to pay their final respects to the dead men.