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LCQ16: Attracting talents to come to Hong Kong **********************************************      Following is a question by the Hon Starry Lee and a written reply by the Secretary for Security, Mr Tang Ping-keung, in the Legislative Council today (September 8):        According to Hong Kong Labour Force Projections for…

THE RUNDOWN Hello and welcome to rabble radio, the proud reemergence of our weekly audio magazine. Rabble radio has its finger on the beat of the issues that matter to you. This week, we're talking about the issues that are conspicuously absent from the federal election thus far. And, we're…

Toward the end of Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel, Normal People, the character Connell attends a reading by a visiting author. Shortly after settling into his seat, though, he regrets it. As he looks around the room at his well-off Trinity College classmates, he senses an incongruity between his lofty expectations…

Bangladeshi garment workers make protective suit at a factory amid concerns over the spread of Covid-19 in Dhaka, Bangladesh March 31, 2020. — Reuters pic DHAKA, Aug 25 — Major global retailers agreed on a two-year pact with garment workers and factory owners in Bangladesh, extending a pre-existing agreement that…

Synopsis Formulaic vigilante-revenge films use this frozen woman, but so do more nuanced stories. A recent example from The Crown: old Winston Churchill has a personal epiphany — leading to a policy shift — during the Great Smog of 1952 as he regards the fate of his secretary Venetia (a…

Employers and employees should take precautions against heat stroke *******************************************************************      As the Hong Kong Observatory has issued the Very Hot Weather Warning, the Labour Department (LD) reminds employers and employees to take appropriate precautions to prevent heat stroke when working in a hot or humid environment.        Heat…

Elections will not be needed for many of the seats on the Election Committee, with the number of names put forward only slightly exceeding the number of places available as the nomination period comes to an end on Thursday, Of the 1,500 seats on the powerful body, 982 are designated…

81 more nomination forms for Election Committee Subsector Ordinary Elections received today ******************************************************************************************      The Returning Officers for the 2021 Election Committee Subsector Ordinary Elections received a total of 80 nomination forms for candidates and 1 nomination form for designated bodies today (August 11). This brings to 993 the total number…