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Transport Department's response to CMB's labour dispute

In response to press enquiries on today's dispute between maintenance staff at the China Motor Bus Company's Chai Wan Depot and CMB management, a spokesman for the Transport Department said:

"The department has monitored the situation very closely throughout the day to ensure that normal bus operation is not affected.

"Despite the dispute at Chai Wan depot, CMB managed to provide normal service and we will continue to monitor its operation.

"Throughout the day, the department has maintained close contact with Labour Department, union representatives and CMB management.

"We understand that staff representatives and CMB management had held a meeting, with the Labour Department as mediator, to solve their differences.

"We welcome the staff's decision to resume their normal duties tomorrow."

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Majority of primary schools to adopt TOC

The Target Oriented Curriculum (TOC) will be adopted by about 500 schools in September. representing more than 60 per cent of all primary schools in Hong Kong, the Director of Education, Mrs Helen ( P Lai Yu. said today (Tuesday),

Opening a TOC Resource Centre for Hong Kong region, Mrs Yu urged other schools to join in so as to improve the quality of education, adding that TOC would be used in the subjects of Chinese, English and Mathematics at Primary One.

The new centre is the second one in the territory to provide a comprehensive range of services and resource support which would help schools to effectively implement TOC.

The first one, in To Kwa Wan, is already in operation and the third one will be opened later this month in Sheung Shui.