Enough talk. Just do it. Tycoon Lee Shau-kee of Henderson Land Development has babbled on for months about donating land to build affordable flats for young Hongkongers. Government officials have hesitated for fear the tycoon has self-serving schemes in mind. Such suspicion is warranted. Bill Gates our tycoons are not. Some are known more for their greed than for their giving. Hongkongers know our tycoons love their money too much to part with it like Gates or Warren Buffett. Their fortunes stay within the family. But wouldn't it be nice if they found it in their hearts to expand Lee's free land offer into a no-strings-attached land donation movement? They would erase the city's shame of subdivided flats and caged homes. They can't take their money with them but they could go with a clean conscience.
Tseung Kwan O residents so oppose a government proposal to extend the landfill in their district that some shaved off their hair in protest at a Legislative Council meeting. Presumably, the bald-headed protesters dumped all that hair as rubbish. And where did they expect the government to put their rubbish? The Tseung Kwan O landfill maybe? But that would be in their backyard, and they don't like that. We suggest the government dump it outside the front doors of the protesters with a sign that says "Landfill full". Or it could put the hair outside the doors of Legco members who blocked the landfill expansion.