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\nA construction alliance has threatened to surround the Legislative Council\u2019s complex in Admiralty with trucks if lawmakers keep using filibustering tactics to delay infrastructure projects \u2013 SCMP, June 9
\nMy colleague Alex Lo wrote about this one earlier and was generally sympathetic to the complaint, largely on the part of construction workers. I find myself taking the opposite view.
\nIt is primarily a matter of straight fact. While the Hong Kong Construction Alliance says it needs…
\n
\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…For once, we\u2019re right to reject the city\u2019s surfeit of public works of dubious purpose<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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