November 17, 2003

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2 scandals for the price of 1

I sit down to spend my 5 minutes skimming the Sunday China Post (unlinkable, but be grateful for that). So imagine you read a headline like this:

All Chinese nationals to be banned from voting.

The outrage would be instant and huge. Yet that was yesterday's headline in reverse. All non-Chinese national residents are potentially going to be barred from voting if universal sufferage is introduced for elections post-2007. Staggering and yet not shocking.

The second one was that Harbour Fest's final accounts are in. It turns out the HK taxpayer paid for exactly 2/3s of the total budget with the rest from ticket sales. Poor sponsorship was blamed. The end result is apparently a video that will be used to sell HK to the world. I am looking forward to the AmCham survey next year measuring the change in tourism due to watching the Harbour Fest video. Maybe it will be from those coming to gaze at such a subsidy.

UPDATE: Phil goes into the voting scandal too.

posted by Simon on 11.17.03 at 10:11 AM in the




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I don't think that the DAB can actually stop non-Chinese permanent residents voting in the election. It struck me as a bit of a non-story (a speciality of the Sunday Morning Post).

posted by: Chris on 11.18.03 at 01:20 PM [permalink]




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