SCMP Lai See 23 Aug 2012
Last week, we wrote that Christine Loh had accepted an invitation by C.Y. Leung to join his administration as undersecretary for the environment. We gather that she has weathered the steely glare of Beijing and an announcement is imminent, possibly today.
Her appointment, we understand, will be one of about four or five undersecretary positions that will be announced. As we indicated earlier, Loh’s appointment will give Leung’s administration, which is looking somewhat ragged at present, a welcome lift.
It is a signal that this government intends to do something serious about the environment, principally Hong Kong’s dirty air.
Donald Tsang Yam-kuen, for reasons best known to himself, chose to do nothing about the problem, which unsurprisingly is getting worse. Loh presumably has CY’s support in this, and it should go a long way to making the city a better place to live in.
This is surely no bad thing, and it remains a puzzle as to why Tsang was so reluctant to act.