HONG KONG is increasingly less referred to as the Pearl of the Orient. Considering the ineffectual (not caring enough?) pollution control, this is hardly surprising.
Anyone who has arrived in Hong Kong over the last five to 10 years must wonder how the name ever came to mind.
With virtually nothing having been done in the past and little being done in the present, there seems not much hope for the future, certainly not the immediate future.
There is an urgent need for the authorities to do something now to raise the spirits and confidence of the long suffering public.
A good move in the right direction would be to curb the daily surge of vehicular smoke that hangs about Hong Kong pedestrian ways (often narrow built-up streets).
In the meantime Hong Kong will remain the pall of the orient.
