Not HK, but there are a group of beggars at one of the junctions near here. One morning I saw them all unloading from a very nice people carrier.
NO
No - especially those who need 'help' to travel
Yes - sometimes
Yes - sometimes but not if they look a 'professional beggar"
Not HK, but there are a group of beggars at one of the junctions near here. One morning I saw them all unloading from a very nice people carrier.
Gave $50 to a mainlander woman squatting outside the Holiday Inn a few nights ago and she demanded $1200. Found out she was not a beggar but a hooker. Its getting hard to tell these days with so many of them around TST.
Giving money to a mainland beggar should probaby of been political suicide as it shows you are completely unaware of the growing issue of illegal beggars (workers) from the mainland. This coupled with not knowing how to use an Octopus card or where to buy toilet roll would probably be too much for a 'normal' candidate. But luckily the mainstream press in Hong Kong isn't very rabid and the SCMP even had a piece praising Ms Lam's out-of-touchness as an interesting quirk.
Since when has any leader needed to be in touch with what regular people do, want, need or appreciate.
A long as they feed us cake every now and then, we will be fine.
I would like to know where you draw that line. On the bridge leading up to Exchange Square in Central, I sometimes see a very short man who looks mentally handicapped, he's got a microphone and speaker and its playing some song. He's not singing, and I doubt he can actually sing, so would he be a busker?