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As Recession Eases, No Escape for Hong Kong's Cage Dwellers

With temperatures reaching the mid-30s, it's the hottest time of Hong Kong's sticky summer. That, in addition to the recession, is making life even harder for the city's growing number of cage dwellers--the city's poorest inhabitants who pay roughly $170 per month to live in 18-square-foot wire cages. Read Lisa Thomas' full story here.

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  • 1

    Don't worry about this. As Sir Donald said, this is the best time for HK in the last 20 years, and the HK government has programs to deal with these people. WIth the backing of China, and all the care packages from the Chinese central government, HK will be prosperous forever.

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    What and where can the cage men do and go, when standing on a barren rock facing the ocean in the front, with a CCP motherland pushing from the back.

    Jump!

  • 3

    So, it's quite wrong maintaining the capitalist system for 50 years. The only way for HK to escape from such cage is to adopt the great Chinese-characteristic-socialism immediately! See how the fortunate people live in the large, warm socialism-family:

    http://www.yuanzhu365.cn/html/pinkunxianzhuang/2009/0629/8.html

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      So Hong Kong is advancing quickly to integrate with the China. I can see returning to China is a great and glorious moment.

  • 4

    香港要保持世界金融中心的地位首先要做的就是自動取消一國兩制。

  • 5

    全國精英都集中在共產黨內,所以,把了清黨、大嗚放、大躍進、反右傾翻案風、文化大革命、官倒、大貪污、六四、濫權、用子女、親戚,做幾百個極大公營轉民營大機構的總經理及高層管理人員!全國精英,都在在立國三十年後,才搞開於改革,放棄共產主義,大搞有中國貪污腐敗的假社會、真資本主義也!

  • 6

    香港法治最後的晚餐

    英國是法律民主先驅,香港便跟宗主國;97後香港跟宗主國中國,香港必然由一法律制度變為人治制度,這种倒退,叫做“返祖制度”現象,只有【一國兩制】獨有,也保証了香港人生活質素必然一天天爛下去,換來一中國【吳哥窟】的誕生.

  • 7

    […官商勾結﹐官親勾結﹐官西勾結﹐使貪官和勾結貪官的一部份人富起來﹐人民看在眼裡記在心理。…]

    在彈丸特區,我們還分清誰是官、誰是商,但在祖國大陸,是不存在官商勾結的,只有亦官亦商,先官後商,父官子商。國家90%的財富掌握在0.4%的人手中。

    在這個國度裡,沒有人相信可以久安,人人只希望快撈一筆,然後去國他鄉,逃之夭夭:在民國時期的官商巨賈如是,到了共和國的高幹權貴家族、暴發戶更嚴重。

    沒有人為這國度的政治合理化存在任何期望,也沒有人認為在他有生之年能看到這裡出現令人鼓舞的進展。共產黨政府為保當權,就無視貧富懸殊、也輕忽環境保護,從前是國破山河在,今天是國在山河破。

  • 8

    "香港要保持世界金融中心的地位首先要做的就是自動取消一國兩制。"

    You are totally wrong. The only way Hong Kong to keep the status of "International" (With Chinese Characteristics) financial center is to be more like China, so that Chinese SOE's will use HK, and not Tokyo, or SIngapore.

    Here is more evidence that HK is becoming more Chinese:
    The previous dean of the Li Ka-shing Medical School (Formerly Medical School of the HKU) was charged for receiving HK$400M wrongfully, and received 25 months of jail sentence (will be released after 8 months).

  • 9

    阿燦 Gull-up of the day

    以前一套電視劇集有個叫「阿燦」嘅角色,劇中講佢由內地偷渡嚟香港,喺人生路不熟嘅地方吃盡苦頭,可以講得上係一個深入民心嘅經典小人物,係好多香港人嘅集體回憶。
    時移世易,香港今非昔比,優勢漸失,港人變咗港燦,相反內地經濟急速起飛,好多阿燦都變咗有錢佬。

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