July 14, 2004

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The Standard reports Tung Che-hwa is fast re-approaching the heights of unpopularity reached in April. He received 44.4 marks out of 100, which means absolutely nothing to me. However 66% reported having no confidence in him, close to the record 67.4%. The favourable column fell from 17% to 16%. This is staggering. Impressively there were people scoring lower: former DAB head Tsang Yok-sing and Leung Chun-ying. That must make Tung feel good - he's not the most hated man in Hong Kong.

Over in Guangzhou, the idea that senior people should be held accountable is "terrifying". The same article reports a petition in HK papers from 1,800 staff in the HA supporting the recently resigned Health Secretary and HA Chairman. This would be the same petition that yesterday the SCMP reported many staff were being pressured into signing by their bosses in the hospitals. Interesting how they forgot to mention that.

Finally the SCMP reports on a Hong Kong University study estimating numbers for the July 1st march:

Only about 112,000 marchers reached the destination in Central during the July 1 march, Hong Kong University declared yesterday, but academics at other universities questioned the figure.
This is so obviously wrong as to not be funny. Even the cops thought there were 200,000. I'm going to mark John Bacon-Shone, who conducted the study, as a Fail.

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bacon-shone invites all doubters to drop by and watch the videotapes and count for themselves. got anything better to do for the weekend?

posted by: eswn on 07.15.04 at 10:25 AM [permalink]

Simple to find out exact nos but I doubt if the mobile phone providers will admit to knowing. See this link: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/cell-phone5.htm

posted by: hkmacs on 07.18.04 at 04:35 PM [permalink]




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