What's being said on facebook.com/southchinamorningpost
On plans by a Chinese company to build a life-sized replica of the Titanic (costing HK$1.28 billion) for a theme park in Sichuan province, plans by the government to offer tax breaks to Hongkongers who take out private insurance policies, and Chinese consumers being allowed to sue manufacturers and sellers of unsafe food and medicine.
How about spending the money on things that matter?
They are good in copying but not creating things.
Another white elephant.
I believe this is in partnership with Clive Palmer , billionaire and politician here in Queensland.
I saw the Queen Elizabeth liner go down off Tsing Yi Island when I'd just turned 12. You can keep your theme park!
What happened to Chinese innovation? Does everything have to be a copy? And surely such a fortune can be spent on something more important than a Titanic replica. What an idiotic idea!
Tax breaks will not attract Hongkongers to take out private insurance policies and use private health care, if the insurance policies are too expensive and complicated. Most people will still rely on public health care, and only the rich can afford to use private health care. Government cannot evade the responsibility to improve public health care.
Wouldn't it be better to have a consumer council to which people can direct their complaints and which then can take further action?
Whether they will be successful in getting those manufacturers and sellers punished is another story.
A nice opportunity to have healthy food in the society.
