Source:
https://scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1922762/hong-kong-bureaucrats-blind-massive-illegal-dump-site
Comment/ Opinion

Hong Kong bureaucrats blind to massive, illegal dump site

Tin Shui Wai, a low-income district full of new immigrants and public housing residents, is paying the price of civil servants too busy twiddling their thumbs

The site in Tin Shui Wai. Photo: SCMP

Our politicians may be useless (the pro-establishment camp) or crazy (pan-democrats). But at least our colonial-trained civil servants are supposed to be able to keep the trains running on time.

But if the government’s response to a dangerous dump site in Tin Shui Wai is any indication, our vastly overpaid bureaucrats are mostly sitting on their behinds, twiddling their thumbs.