On second thought: politically divided Hong Kong needs to settle credibility crisis after student-led protest at HKU
University of Hong Kong protest is a clear sign that a credibility crisis must be addressed
It takes a fool not to recognise standards in Hong Kong are slipping. It takes a bigger fool not to do something about it.
Take the month of July, for instance. It began with a litany of woes.
There was the discovery of lead contamination in tap water that struck us like a thunderbolt. As if this was not enough, there were cases of food poisoning linked to imported sandwiches and fungal infection from hospital linen.
For those of us who have banked on clean water, safe food and hygienic hospitals, there goes our faith and face.
July ended no better than it began.
On July 28 came the sorry saga of protesting students storming a closed-door session of the University of Hong Kong council.