More education funding urged
The Liberal Party has called on the government to spend an extra HK$400 million a year to help primary and secondary schools hire substitute teachers - to give language teachers more time to brush up their skills. It also proposed the government spend HK$1.3 billion more a year on education to help ease the workload of language teachers.
Nepalese builders 'underpaid'
Over three-quarters of Nepalese working at Hong Kong construction sites receive unequal pay, according to a poll by their union. Of the 304 Nepalese workers polled, 76 per cent claimed they were paid about 20 per cent less than their Chinese counterparts. On average, a Nepalese worker is paid HK$450 a day for 10 hours' work, while local Chinese are paid HK$550 a day for nine hours' work, according to the union.
Appeal for donors in quake zone
The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong yesterday appealed for donors for poor single-parent families in villages in Pangzhou, Sichuan , which was hit by last month's earthquake. The party will match each donor with a needy family, with each one giving HK$333 a month for a year.
