SCMP Lai See 07 July 2012
The Economist Intelligence Unit has adjusted its methodology for determining the world’s most “liveable” city. As a result, Hong Kong has been catapulted from 10th position to first, ahead of Amsterdam, Osaka, Paris and Sydney. The Economist notes this has resulted in “a few oddities”. It cites Hong Kong, noting that “a generation of schoolchildren are condemned to carrying asthma inhalers because their little lungs are speckled with contaminants blowing across the harbour from mainland China”. They might have added “and from Hong Kong’s roadside pollution”.
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