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daaitoulaam: RT @quant18: Senate adopts @MazieHirono's amendment to make Hong Kong eligible for US Visa Waiver Program participant designation http://t.…
18 May 2013 02:03 PM

daaitoulaam: @quant18 You didn't expect Sessions to oppose it based on the racism involved in handing out HK passports, did you?
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The Maids Ruling: Some Quotes


by Tom Legg at Wed Mar 27 10:20:53 2013

FACV No. 19 of 2012

pp 4-5
7. Since the mid-1970s, with greater affluence and increasing numbers of households where both spouses go out to work, there has been a growing demand by Hong Kong families for domestic helpers. The local supply of such labour was scarce, so FDHs have been recruited from many countries including ...

The United Front is Spinning CY Leung Hard


by Tom Legg at Thu Jan 17 19:14:32 2013

After spinning the Liaison Office's Scrooge McCY as a man of the people and someone to shake up HK's tycoons prior to taking office last July, the United Front is back with a vengeance on the day after his inaugural Policy Address.

Of course the actual Policy Address was a potpourri of goodies and subsidies for HK's tycoons with no asset...

What's Your Plan?


by Tom Legg at Fri Jan 11 12:33:36 2013

Hong Kong pan-dems pushed forth a motion of impeachment of Scrooge McCY that was pushed back by the non-democratic shoeshiner monopoly of power. Hong Kong's most annoying shoe-shiner castigates the pan-dems for this futile waste of time over minor affairs, almost sounding like Carrie Lam's bullshit script to LegCo.

It's true the motion had...

Predictable Behaviour From Scrooge McCY and Friends


by Tom Legg at Thu Jan 10 10:48:15 2013

Given Scrooge McCY's history as a surveyor, it's predictable that his solution to Hong Kong's housing problem would be the equivalent of some over-the-hill pop band doing a one-hit wonder revival tour. Scrooge McCY's one-hit wonder was helping to lay out Shenzhen. So obviously to this man the solution is laying out new towns, which is why he's r...

Scrooge McCY and His URA


by Tom Legg at Sun Dec 30 09:59:45 2012

The options were obvious: 1) Favor the tycoons, 2) Favor the small property owner, 3) Keep your mouth shut. Isn't it obvious which one Scrooge McCY's URA chose?

Given the "Big market, Little Government" propaganda that floods HK, you'd expect the government to keep their mouths shut about a private property market transaction. With the p...