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ONe COuNTrY…TWO LAND pOLICIeS
According to the Global Times website China’s Ministry of Land and Resources has
vowed to crack down on illegal land use. This will include the practice of land hoarding
and property speculation.
The aim, the ministry says is “to strengthen arable land protection and use land
optimally and intensively.”
The venerable ministry has rolled out a nationwide inspection of land use – and
remember this is a considerably HUGE country.
Frozen Spy is mightily impressed. Finally, someone who wants to do things right!
But wait a minute, while the ministry’s chief warns that transgressors will face
“severe” punishment, the 155-city purge on bad behaviour omits Hong Kong and Macau.
Clearly, the minister, one Xu Shaoshi, is a true believer in the second part of the
“One Country, Two Systems” formula!
THINKING FOr THe MOTHerLAND
In Macau’s mini-parliament some legislators don’t have calculators to
solve the tricky sums surrounding solutions to the city’s lack of labour.
Why not bring in recent graduates from the mainland to start
their first jobs here? By doing so Macau would show its real love for the
Motherland.
Yes, great idea, and absolutely nothing to do with the low wages you will
be able to pay them – perish the thought. But shouldn’t we also bring in people with a bit
more experience - and not only from the Mainland? Just a thought.
Oh, wait another minute, surely the idea has nothing to with the fact that some
lawmakers run businesses that import labour - againp… erish the thought.
Oh, and by the way, when a company needs to pay a local agency to import workers
from the mainland when it’s free to import skilled workers from foreign countries, is that
another example of love for the Motherland?
SIMpLe SuMS NAKeD GOLFerS,
The Secretary uNLICeNSeD
for Transport
Yes, this is a place where small problems must
and Public
wait because senior public servants have other
Works has no
priorities. Macau Golf and Country Club knows
doubts: the
this well it seems.
government will
In a letter to its members the club could
implement the
not have been more ironic: “The locker room
public housing
expansion plans have been submitted to the
system using “scientific studies”
Macau Government Public Works Department
that will avoid any kind of financial
and after 18 months it seems that we finally have
waste.
some responses”.
Frozen Spy would like to give a
Perhaps naked golfers waiting for lockers
little arithmetic advice.
might not be so important but things are getting
Lau Si Io, try to prevent the cost
ridiculous when some hotels around town have
of public infrastructure projects
been waiting almost two years for the licenses
rocketing to 70 and 80 percent more
they need to, er open…
than the original projected price.
That would be nice, don’t you think?
March 2010
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