The Pulse (From RTHK)

I introduced to my students how to use the BBC website to brush up their listening skill this afternoon. Not to my surprise, they found the pace of speech too fast to follow. I told my wife the problem and she came up with a solution, 'The Pulse' from RTHK , which is a programme on local and global current affairs. If you want to keep abreast of the current affairs and at the same time brush up your English, 'The Pulse' is for you.



The Pulse

2006-03-24
2006-03-17
Privacy Problems; Increase in HIV/AIDS infections; Changing Young Lives Foundation
2006-03-10
New Avian Flu Fears; Abused Husbands: "Men's Day"; Fireboat Alexander Grantham Reaches a Final Resting Place
2006-03-03
Is Legco a Waste of Time?; Taiwan Scraps National Unification Council; Pay TV
2006-02-24
2006 Budget; Fear of Flyers; The Bauhinia Foundation
2006-02-17
Legalising Covert Surveillance; Is Our Air Fit to Breathe?; Long Working Hours; A Former Hostage in Iraq Tells Her Story
2006-02-10
Islam vs Press Freedom?; The Tamar "X-File"; The Future of the FTU
2006-02-03
Financial Outlook for the Year of the Dog; Too Early for Tax Breaks; It's a Dog's Business
2006-01-27
The Price of (Electrical) Power; Public Sector Broadcasting Review; Lunar New Year Entrepreneurs; New Year Greetings
2006-01-20
Public Service Broadcasting Review; Education Reforms and the Pressures on Hong Kong's Teachers
2006-01-13
Donald Tsang in Legco; Rifts Among the Democrats; WTO Protesters on Trial; Digital Broadcasting - Coming Soon?
2005-12-16
World Trade Organisation's 6th Ministerial Conference
2005-12-09
After the March - Political Development?; Dodgy Drugs - Parallel Pharmaceutical Imports and Counterfeits; A Basic Guide to the WTO
2005-12-02
Before the March - the Argument over Constitutional Reform
2005-11-25
Public Order and the WTO; Dai Pai Dong Culture; Creative November; Dr Emily Chan in Profile
2005-11-18
Constitutional Reform - the Democrats Step Up the Pressure; Public Broadcasting Under Review...Maybe; Pakistan Earthquake Relief; Teaching Children Money
2005-11-11
Lord Chris Patten, Former Hong Kong Governor
2005-11-04
Bird flu - panic or prudence?; Food safety; Gender Discrimination in Uniformed Services....or not; Yahoo and Privacy
2005-10-28
Thanks But No Thanks; A New Newspaper Price War?; Native English-Speaking Teachers - Dwindling Supply
2005-10-21
5th Report of Constitutional Development Task Force; Interview: HK Transition Project Head Michael DeGolyer; WTO Head Pascal Lamy in Hong Kong; Society for Truth and Light Vs. Gay Rights
2005-10-14
Donald Tsang's First Policy Address + The New Exco Line-Up
2005-10-07
How Will Donald Tsang Govern?; Interview with Financial Times' Asia Editor John Ridding; When Free Trade Isn't Fair Trade
2005-09-30
Back From Guangzhou; More International Companies come to Hong Kong; Hong Kong's Retail Business - Good Service?; Redesigning The Peak
2005-09-23
A Weekend in Guangzhou, Where to Put the WTO Protestors; Is Hong Kong Soccer Worth Bothering With?
2005-09-16
Disneyland with Hong Kong Characteristics; The Pulse interviews Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány; The Men's Beauty Business
2005-09-09
Lantau Special - Disneyland Controversies; Tai O Fishing Village; Keeping Lantau Green
2005-09-05
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2005-07-15
Freedom of Speech - Under Threat?; Free Newspapers; The Internet and New Radio
2005-07-08
Sex Workers and Human Rights issues; Politicising the Civil Service?; The Changing Status of Social Workers
2005-07-01
Child Abuse; 2005 International Lions Clubs' Convention; Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's new Biography of Mao Zedong
2005-06-24
Swearing-in of the New Chief Executive; Legco's Expectations of Donald Tsang; Civil Servants' Pay; Improving Early Education; Clinic Queues for the Elderly
2005-06-17
The Chief Executive Election - Really?; Protection of Intellectual Property in Hong Kong and China; Conservation Partnerships
2005-06-10
Pressuring the next Chief Executive; Media Crackdown on the Mainland; Food Labelling and the Chronically Ill; The Social Stigma of Mental Illness
2005-06-03
The New Chief Executive and the Future of Exco; Concerns about the arrest of Journalist Ching Cheong in Guangzhou; Air-Conditioning - The Big Freeze; The Christian Industrial Council Turns a New Page
2005-05-27
Donald Tsang resigns to run for Chief Executive; Hong Kong, NOT a City of Enterprise; Rising Commercial Rents.
2005-05-20
Changing the Dollar Peg; Chim Pui-chung for Chief Executive; Making Hong Kong People more Patriotic; the Cheung Chau Bun Festival
2005-05-13
Traffic Chaos; Revising the Inland Revenue Ordinance; CSSA and the Single Parent; the Hong Kong Toilet Association
2005-05-06
Revaluing the Yuan; Companies Abuse Fund set up to Help Workers; The Anti-No-Smoking Campaigners
2005-04-29
Bugging and the The Basic Law; Acting Chief Secretary Donald Tsang's Legco Q & A; the KMT Chairman in mainland China; Interview with departed US Consul-General James Keith
2005-04-22
Shenzhen Meeting on Basic Law Interpretation, Cross Harbour Traffic Blues; Mainland Media Controls in the anti-Japanese Demonstrations; BBC's Nik Gowing on the Changing Face of News
2005-04-15
Anti-Japanese Demonstrations in China; Lesbian groups picket bookstore; RTHK in the news
2005-04-08
3rd Reinterpretation of the Basic Law; The "Feminization of Poverty"; The Papal succession
2005-04-01
E-waste and the environment; A green tax on plastic bags; A Kuomintang delegation visits mainland China
2005-03-25
A Democratic Candidate for Chief Executive; Radios for tsunami-stricken Indonesia; Swire hires famed architect Frank Gehry to propose a "Cultural Harbour"; The first Hong Kong Entertainment Expo opens
2005-03-18
Responses to the 2005 Budget; The Chief Executive's Term of Office
2005-03-11
The Chief Executive Resigns; Controlling Functional Constituencies; Beijing's Anti-Secession Law
2005-03-04
Tung Chee-Hwa's Rumoured Resignation; Interview with Philip Dykes, Chairman of Hong Kong Bar Association; The Price of Power - Hong Kong's High Electricity Tariffs.
2005-02-25
Hong Kong's Changing Demographics; Caring for the Aged; the Changing Face of Pro-Beijing Parties
2005-02-18
One Family (as long as you're Chinese); Hong Kong's alien invaders; Susanna Cheung in Israel and Palestine
2005-02-11
English Language Teaching in Hong Kong; The Impressionists; Lunar New Year Wishes
2005-02-04
Is Hong Kong's Business Environment Fair?
2005-01-28
Motion of (No) Thanks on the Policy Address; Hong Kong's Shrinking Harbour