Said the representatives from the International Domestic Workers Network in front of the crowd outside the Legislative Council Building when the motion to amend the Minimum Wage Bill to cover domestic workers was just voted down in the council meeting on July 15, 2010.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Monday, July 12, 2010
I'm glad we have been bombed
“I’m glad we have been bombed” is the famous quotation from Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother) of the UK after the Buckingham Palace was bombed by Germany’s Luftwaffe in 1940. The eastern façade of Buckingham Palace was designed by British architect Aston Webb who also designed the Supreme Court Building (now the Legislative Council Building) in Hong Kong around the same time in the early 1900's.
Time is tight 时间紧迫
Mainland Chinese tourist zhoubaozhoubao said "Time is tight" (时间紧迫) when introducing his 2 day-experience of visiting Hong Kong in 2008. He recommended visiting the Legislative Council Building for 30 min.
Only time can tell
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to the US President Jimmy Carter answered "Only time can tell" when Council Member Allen Lee asked for his perspective on One Country Two Systems, quoted in Lee's address in a Legislative Council meeting in 1984 on his uncertainty about the future of Hong Kong.
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