1.   Both Mr Wu and Mr Lam refused to estimate the number or proportion of imported labour needed.

2.   But Mr Wong insisted the government had never changed its position that the construction industry needed imported labour.

3.   When the economy recovers, the government may do well to reconsider the policy of relying on cheap imported labour.

4.   He said workers had suffered the double blow of imported labour and of factories being closed and moved to mainland China.

5.   The workers were protesting against the use of imported foreign labour when local unemployment rates were so high.