Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
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There are so many meets between now and Beijing. I have a lot I want to accomplish this year.
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This will multiply what we've done before and turn up the volume.
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Usually bands with violins - it's this little, poorly amplified looking kind of futile on stage, and that's not the way that my music is put together.
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Having spent many years working in New York's Chinatown restaurants early in my career, I have the utmost respect for the history and connection New Yorkers have with Chinese cuisine.
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For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
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It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
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One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.
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The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.
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We have to treat smoking as a major public health issue. We have to reduce the extent to which young people start smoking, and one of the issues is the extent to which display of cigarettes and brands does draw young people into smoking in the first place.
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Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species.
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There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.
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Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt about an influential book by Harold Bloom. 'The Anxiety of Influence', published in 1973 when I was five years old, is taken up with the terrifying influence of poets on each other.
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Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.
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If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.