How low - or high - can we go? The first minimum wage level will be set in July, the labor chief said yesterday just hours after a government survey revealed the lowest-paid 10 percent of the workforce earns less than HK$27 an hour.
TVB's Chan stays calm in storm Finally making an appearance in public after being arrested by graftbusters last Thursday, an apparently unfazed TVB general manager Stephen Chan Chi-wan, talked about the "ups and downs" of life.
Barca see double Barcelona will rely on the skills of Lionel Messi to lead them to the Champions League final in Madrid and become the first team to defend the title since the competition started in 1993.
Writing is on the wall for desert killer with heart colder than ice The story so far: People who have read the manuscript of Scared to Death, a book by Manuka Das, have dropped dead. Crime reporter Edna Lee is at the author's desert home, the scene of the latest death: that of TV host Dan Blather. This is the conclusion of a five-part mystery ...
Back to education basics I read with great sadness about yet another student who committed suicide due to work pressure ("Tragedy strikes for third time in CUHK," The Standard, March 16).
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