Lan Kwai Fong Hong Kong

About 100 people have staged a protest outside the Central Government Offices, calling for measures to alleviate poverty in the territory. The protestors said the Chief Executive, Donald Tsang, had ignored the needs of the poor in his policy address on Wednesday. Sze Lai-shan, the spokeswoman for the Society for Community Organisation, said working class people would not find much employment in the so-called six pillar industries the government planned to develop. She said they would be of greater benefit to professionals and the middle class.
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