When I met a Singapore-based European banker at a conference last week and told him I lived in Hong Kong, the first thing he asked was how we coped with the air pollution. Such questions are now commonplace. Hong Kong's dirty little secret is out in the open: the air is filthy.
The point was brutally underlined by a report last month on Asian air pollution sponsored by CLSA, the investment bank*. It said Disneyland's new Hong Kong theme park, due to open in September, would “suffer from constant haze” as a result of pollution from southern China.
