1.   Moreover they could always use family labour or import casual labour to carry out any essential work.

2.   But Secretary for Manpower and Education Joseph Wong Wing-ping would not rule out the possibility of importing labour in future.

3.   But the government refrained from announcing it was importing labour in the textile industry as it was worried that such a decision would receive strong objections from labour.

4.   Employers have often complained that they need to import labour because local workers refuse to work in certain jobs.

5.   He guaranteed that contractors would not be allowed to import labour without strong justification.

6.   He insisted that what he had talked about was the principle of importing labour.

7.   In those heydays, importing cheap labour itself was a growth industry and some politicians made fortunes bringing in these workers.

8.   It also said there was no need to import labour at this time for the catering and retailing industries when Hong Kong was facing an economic downturn.

9.   Liberal Party provisional legislator Ho Sai-chu said he knew the government would import foreign labour in the construction industry three months ago.

10.   Mr Lee, an ousted legislator and secretary general of the Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions, also took issue with the new policy to import more labour.