With just two weeks to go before his departure, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying announced a long-awaited framework for standard working hours. Labour activists say the plan cheats Hong Kong workers and falls far short of Leung’s election manifesto promises. Meanwhile, employers warn that actually paying workers for working excessive hours could lead to job losses. Go out for a meal in Hong Kong and it’s a pretty fair bet that a sizeable chunk of your bill is going to a landlord. This has not been always been the case not only were rents lower, but customers had a wider choice of food stalls or dai pai dongs. Hawkers’ roadside food stalls commonly sold fish balls, sugarcane, ox tripe, dried cuttlefish in places like public housing estates, cinemas, swimming pools and parks. In the 1970s the government decided to stop issuing hawker licenses to new operators and brought in tighter controls and restrictions for existing license holders. When this generation of dai pai dong owners dies or retires another of Hong Kong’s traditions is likely to become history. It has been claimed that the introduction of food trucks provides some kind of replacement for this dwindling heritage. That’s questionable on a number of levels not least when the new scheme’s highly bureaucratic nature, lack of flexibility for moving the trucks around and high cost to customers is taken into account. We’ll leave you with a reminder from London of the tragic cost of high rise living when in literally minutes a home turns into a blazing inferno with heavy loss of life – no doubt in hi-rise Hong Kong there are also some sobering lessons to be learned.

On Monday this week, Financial Secretary John Tsang told legislators that the Hong Kong government is "very concerned" about the risk of an asset bubble developing, but there's no sign of one yet. So what's the risk? In the studio to help us make our own assessment l to help us sort through the confusing statistics is Francis Lun of Fulbright Securities.

During this long Easter holiday some people will be getting out and about for a bit of fresh air. Others will be driving parents and teachers to distraction because they’re hunched over computer screens in combat with other online gamers. But don’t scoff. Professional computer gaming can pay better than entry level professional athletics. More on that in part two. But first to the homes of some more traditional sports played in environments less egalitarian and accessible than home computer games. Hong Kong currently has 27 private recreational clubs operating on often large areas of government land. Many pay little or no rent. Meanwhile plenty of Hong Kong residents have nowhere decent to live, and there are increasing questions about why so much land is reserved for the recreation of so few. With us in the studio are legislators Tanya Chan of the Civic Party and Felix Chung of the Liberal Party to talk about this issue. Parents, teachers, girlfriends and boyfriends of video gamers, take heart. What might seem to be an antisocial hobby can turn into a lucrative career. Electronic sports or eSports take video games to a professional level. Most are team-based and can involve competing in leagues and tournaments. They include battlefield games, card games, strategy games, or sports simulations. Electronic games as a professional spectator sport have become a multi-billion dollar business that’s now projected to bring in more revenue than some traditional pastimes. Well that’s it from us. We’ll leave you with images of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s surprise two-day visit to Beijing this week where he met Chinese President Xi Jinping. It’s been suggested that the trip to Beijing was a bit of a curveball ahead of Donald Trump’s planned but still unscheduled meeting with Kim. We however are scheduled to be back next week. So, for now goodbye. And enjoy the break.

The controversy over the property dealings of Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng has intensified. In a late-night statement released last Sunday, Cheng disclosed three more illegal structures in her flat in Repulse Bay. She also owns companies that bought three other properties in Tuen Mun and Shatin, Ms Cheng allegedly paid HK$62 million for the Southern District flat. She is then said to have saved HK6.6 million in stamp duties by claiming to be a first-time buyer. Ten illegal structures had already been found in adjoining villas belonging to her and her husband in Tuen Mun. With us to talk about this are legislators Dennis Kwok of the Civic Party and Michael Tien of Roundtable. According to a recent report from the Social Welfare Department, almost 60% of abused children are abused by from their parents. A total of 704 cases were reported from January to September last year. Many social workers believe this is the small tip of a much bigger iceberg. Official figures also indicate that of Hong Kong’s 20 residential districts, Yuen Long has the highest number of child abuse cases, followed by Kwun Tong and Tuen Mun. Meanwhile schools and social workers are working together to do their best to prevent repeats of recent tragedies. “They say I am a virgin on a stallion, Mounting a stallion my Dear Leader gave me. All my life I will live to uphold his name!” So go the catchy lyrics of a highly popular song by Hyong Song-wol, a singer with North Korea’s all-female Moranbong Band. Ms Hyong is also said to be particularly close to the country’s leader Kim Jong-un. And it is now clear that rumours of her execution have been exaggerated as, Ms Hyong is alive and well. So well in fact that last week she crossed into South Korea to arrange two performances by the 140-member Samjiyon art troupe for next month’s Winter Olympics. They’ll be playing folk songs and classic pieces popular on both sides of the border. And on that note it’s time for team Pulse to mount our stallions and go home. We’ll see you next week and the Dear Leader is most welcome to join us.