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So painful that 35% surveyed wished to die!
Index of Pain

   
   
 
   
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Dangerous Roads Death Bus   Bus TV
 
10: Most pain
1: least pain

How painful?

It aches so much that I rather die 1000 times than live another second!



From Apple Daily


From Oriental Daily
From SingTao Daily
From SingTao Daily
2004.12.5
Above, conflict of interest allegedly committed by an ex-housing official, Ms Chung.

Another protest against Bus TV

BUS TV, FOR Whose Benefit?

Behind the glamour, there's evil lurking;

Beneath the glister, there's conspiracy cooking!

Behind the beautiful face, there lies an ugly plot!


Bus TV harms your sons & daughters!
The smile of an angel! The heart of a devil!

 

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Housing Athourity wastes tons of millions of dollars yearly, per Economic Daily.

Other People's Money

Housing Authority wastes millions and millions of tax payers' money.

Fairness, Gone! Injustice, enough!

To the injustice in Hong Kong, these protestors say:

"We've had enough!"

In tears!
This old woman tells the Hong Kong Government that she has to wash her face with tears!

1 in 4 fears loss of his job, Economic Daily
confidence, lowest in the world, Economical Daily, 2004.11.18
People in Hong Kong scores the last in a world-wide confidence poll.

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Reported by ATV (2004.8.11) and Ming Pao Daily (2004.8.12) (above)

Another example of NO FREEDOM OF CONTRACT or UNLAWFUL BUNDLED SERVICES:

As reported(left), Cheung Kong Developer gives 2 options to its residents when it comes to choosing the provider of telecom services:

  1. No telecom services or
  2. get them from HGC

Thumbs Up to the Lands Department of the Government: It was reported in ATV's evening news on 2004.7.29 that Developer Cheung Kong was fined $3,200,000 for cutting down trees.
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Make Bus Rides Safe

One year after the bus plunge that killed 21 passengers, there is no indication that our bus system is safer.

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A response (in Chinese) to the investigation of misconduct and wrongdoing of government officials with respect to the Harbour Fest 2003
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Other People's Lives

as reported in Oriental Daily
A First Look at bus companies' report on cutting down bus accidents as reported in the news on 2004/02/23:
  • Black Box, good
  • More Hand Rail?
  • Surveillance camera inside bus compartments? (Is it a joke or a diversion?)
  • how about quality of management (see excerpt to the left)
  • No mentioning of road design, see our analysis in 21
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Things that they would do to take away your money, and sometimes your lives too...
Following are excerpts from Apples' Daily:
   
Are these Fair
Silence means consent
Sending existing customers contracts or amendments that will come into effect if you don't object to them in time (if you do that to an opposite sex, sexual assault is the result)
Service providers impose fix penalty on customers if they terminate contract early but there is no penalty if they themselves terminate contract early.
Offering advantageous terms to new customers but refuse to offer same to existing customers. (Note, it is our believe that HKBC ran into legal troubles when they did that with their mortgage loan practice: the UK court asked HKBC to treat both new and existing customers the same with any new offers.)
 

Our Question to the Government
Government Directives

Is death the only way to stop Bus TV?
Bus riders are, as our analysis has revealed, compelled to watch & to listen to TV broadcast on public buses (for the benefit of the bus operators).

The Transport Department would not compel riders to wear seat belts which could have lowered the fatalities of the July 10 incident (to the detriment of bus riders).

(Well, if their decision not to implement such safety measure because there is cost involved in installing seat belts, then they are making a huge mistake. (Compare this decision to the mandatory wearing of seat belts for taxi passengers)

Does it mean that increasing bus operators' profits is more important than preserving lives of bus riders?

Other issues
Social values vs economic values

A quote from the China Business Post (8/16 reported in Hong Kong Standard), "It's time to change the belief that social development must be compromised in favor of economic development."

Unlawful censorship & Violation of rights of freedom of expression


It was reported in (Sing Tao Daily during week of 2003/8/18 ?) that all three major public bus companies of Hong Kong refused to allow advertisement from a particular magazine to be placed in their buses.

See how powerful they are. As a group, they in reality control the whole bus operation in Hong Kong.


What kind of surveys could we trust?

(reported in Economic Daily during the week of 2003/8/18)
Recent court cases have revealed facts putting opinion polls and surveys in doubt. Now we should ask for more quality control measures when we were presented with any survey.
  1. We may have to ask them to affirm its authenticity,
  2. to testify that no leading or trick questions were used and that
  3. respondents were given the whole background information and that
  4. no trick or deceiving devices were employed, etc.

(Photos in connection with KMB Tragedy are from SCMP, Sing Tao Daily, Oriental Daily, Ming Pao)

HOW WHO WHAT


Doom sayers
Doom sayers have the following to say about Hong Kong (left):
  • Protest by residents of Hong Kong: " The end of Hong Kong."
  • From the web site (we believe),"Bounce Back Hong Kong" : "Putting a full stop to Hong Kong."
  • From the Asian Times: "Hong Kong will die"


KMB Bus Plunge, left: 21 dead, 30+injured

2 X INSULTS
While Dr Liao, head of the transport overseeing public bus operation visits the cemetery to seek tranquility, 21 passengers had to live forever in the graveyard when the KMB bus they were traveling plunged down Tuen Mun Highway! (left)

As if death was not enough, the passengers had to die with the Bus TV being forced upon them.


Bus riders' lives
are dirt cheap!
KMB
Who is more compassionate?
The condolence money for a victim:
: who lost his life in a KMB bus plunge on 2003.7.10 HK$30,000
DBS : whose safety box was destroyed by DBS Bank, 2004.10 HK$50,000

Dangerous Highways have contributed to many accidents and many innocent deaths!
 
Can you justify TV slavery by the increase of bus operators' profits?
Squeezed by the Oil Companies Oil companies


Clear the air in Hong Kong (leaving this site)


Cheung Kong

The 3 Gones!

Trees Gone!
Greens Gone! and
Fresh Air Gone!

Freedom of contract, Gone!


Developers


Right of refusal, cancelled!

 

Numb as the tomb stone!
Now, even the dead has risen to protest against the mismanagement of our government! (left, ATV reports HKG's mismanagement of the cemetery)
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