Hong Kong connection [2008]
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21:45 1. The Mandatory Provident Fund schemes /RTHK production.
2008-01-03
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In the year 2000, the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes came into effect. The Government's goal was to help the 2.5 million people in gainful employment to attain financial security when they retire. S...
21:48 2. Is milk good /RTHK production.
2008-01-10
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Statistics show Hong Kong's milk consumption has increased 6 times over the past 20 years. Yet research by Cornell University Emeritus Professor, T. Collin Campbell, shows casein in milk increases the...
21:47 3. The vehicular upsurge /RTHK production.
2008-01-17
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Five years after China's ascension to the World Trade Organization, examines the development in China's automobile industry and how this has affected the national auto manufacturers. There are over 30...
21:46 4. Adolescents in need /RTHK production.
2008-01-24
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Explores the problems that unskilled unemployed teenage school dropouts face. While some choose to indulge themselves in temporary happiness, others become recluses because they are afraid to confront...
21:47 5. So close, so different /RTHK production.
2008-01-31
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Discusses the requirements if the Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre's proposal to merge Hong Kong and Shenzhen into a world-class cosmopolitan city were to be adopted. Identifies the advantages of t...
21:45 6. Walled in /RTHK production.
2008-02-07
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Examines the escalating urban heat island effect created by screen-like skyscrapers. Shows a primary school's effort to fight for a 4-5 meter green belt between it and a planned building construction ...
7. Recapturing nature's green /RTHK production.
2008-02-14
Available at Media Resourcs Collection (3/F)
Looks at what cities can do to reduce emission and to mitigate the heat island effect to counter global warming.The Tokyo metropolitan government has passed a law requiring new buildings to have rooft...
8. Urban greening /RTHK production.
2008-02-21
Available at Media Resourcs Collection (3/F)
Shows a rooftop garden project. Onyx Wai Wing-hong (Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University) says the government should require developers...
21:48 9. Behind the great firewall /RTHK production.
2008-02-28
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In Mainland China, there's as yet no freedom of expression or freedom of the press as we know it. Theres always control and censorship. As the number of internet users continues to increase, an offici...
21:47 10. Unity is strength[videorecording] /RTHK production.
2008-03-06
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Rebar fixers who staged a record-breaking 36-day strike inAugust explain why they established a new union (扎鐵業團結工會) which is independent from their former representative, Bar-bending Workers' Union (B...
