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Philip Bowring
Feb 06, 2010
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The collapse last week of a residential building in the heart of Hong Kong is focusing long-needed attention on the often sleazy muddle which passes for development policies in the city. But the official response could be again to reward the big developers at the expense of the public in general and the poor in particular.

Four people died when the 50-ye…

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