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June 22, 2004

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Hong Kong employs 170,000 civil servants. To let the taxpayers of HK in on what good work all these people do, they have published a list of some of their achievements. The SCMP tells us the report cost a measly HK$160,000 and extols 20 achievements of the service in the past year. There's some good ones, like "A role model in intellectual property protection" - any stroll down the Ladies Market or to 298 Henessey Rd can show you how effective that has been...not.

Back to the SCMP:

Unveiling the report yesterday, Secretary for the Civil Service Joseph Wong Wing-ping was quick to fend off criticism that the 170,000 civil servants were only proud of 20 achievements. "Perhaps many are just too humble to respond,'' he said.
Humble. That's it. Interesting how Harbour Fest didn't make the top 20. Perhaps Mike Rowse was overcome with humility.

 posted by Simon on 06.22.04 at 10:28 AM in the




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Yeah but to give them credit they took one major achievement from each division.

HK's a pretty good country!

 posted by: Giles on 06.22.04 at 01:37 PM [permalink]

Could be worse, you could be living in Japan where it seems that half of the civil servants havn't been topping up the pension fund for the last fifty years, or England were there are now more beurocrats in the NHS that patient beds.

 posted by: Angry Chinese Blogger on 06.22.04 at 01:52 PM [permalink]




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