Posts Tagged 'Graham street'

Happy Birthday Mikey Mike

Today is Mike Atkin’s birthday.

You are a good boy and true.

Because I can’t come to your party

I use this cheapskate way to salute you

 

Mike is a champion of the Peel and Graham street markets, a thorn in the eye of HK’s government because the money spent there goes to private enterprise, not straight to big conglomerates. Also the markets are popular among locals and tourists, a surefire way of any feature of HK to be pulverised.

Let’s save them NOW!!!!!!

Save Us From Improvement

What preservation? When these guys are finished, not a brick is left of our history.

The last two days’ South China Morning Posts have carried the following news: That plans for demolition of Queen’s Pier has “passed the hurdle of Legco” (The legislative council, Hong Kong’s so called lawmakers who are just another extended branch of the government, which is just an extended branch of the real leaders of Hong Kong, namely property developers) and that plans to demolish a charming area of Wan Chai called Wedding Card Street will go ahead.

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