Voila, cela fait 3 ans que je suis a Hong-Kong, presque jour pour jour. Je peine a y croire. Une telle duree est un sacre record!
Le 30 juillet 2009, j'atterissais a Hong-Kong, en retard, et la mort dans l'ame. Je faisais la betise de prendre un bus qui m'amenerait devant mon hotel (pourri) apres mains detour (l'hotel etait le dernier de la trajectoire..) au lieu de prendre l'agreable airport express, qui devrait servir d'exemple a toutes les autres villes du monde. Il faisait ce jour-la (enfin, cet ete-la) une chaleur particulierement etouffante, humide, moite. Bref desagreable.
Certaines choses changent: je me suis mise a aimer Hong-Kong.
Certaines choses ne changent pas (je dirais meme, elles empirent) : http://sg.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-smothered-worst-air-pollution-two-years-105623038.html
Eh oui, la chaleur d'hier etait forte, mais sacrement desagreable (c'en etait presque a se feliciter d'etre enfermee au bureau, plutot que d'etre a la piscine)(heu.... non quand meme pas)
C'est vrai que la magnifique partielle vue depuis mon 13eme etage hier est devenue sacrement embrumee hier. J'ai betement pense qu'il allait pleuvoir...
Les previsions pour auj n'augurent pas beaucoup plus agreable cela dit... 29-33degres... et je parle pas du ressenti...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The worst pollution in two years smothered Hong Kong for a second day on Thursday, prompting warnings to the old and sick to stay indoors and obscuring one of the world's most famous views.
Pollution readings were "very high" in business and shopping districts such as Central, Western, Causeway Bay and Mongkok, air monitoring stations showed, surpassed only once in March 2010 when a sandstorm in northern China covered Hong Kong in dust.
"Bad air is trapped here. But even though external circumstances can't blow away the pollutants, the problem still lies fundamentally in vehicular emissions in Hong Kong itself," said Patrick Fung of Clean Air Network, a local pro-environment group.
The view of the cramped skyscrapers of Hong Kong Island and the Peak was obscured from across the harbour in Kowloon.
Air pollution in Hong Kong, a former British colony which returned to Chinese rule in 1997, is a major source of worry for local citizens and foreign businesses, which increasingly see it as compromising the quality of life.
In a recent survey by human resources consultancy ECA International, Hong Kong distinguished itself as a place where its air quality was among the worst in the world.
The pollution comes largely from coal-fired power stations and traffic, though a significant contribution wafts down from the tens of thousands of factories in China's neighbouring manufacturing heartland of the Pearl River Delta.
Under intense lobbying, the government has been gradually tightening its air-quality objectives and monitoring measures to meet World Health Organisation standards, but these remain far short of global guidelines, green groups say.
Le 30 juillet 2009, j'atterissais a Hong-Kong, en retard, et la mort dans l'ame. Je faisais la betise de prendre un bus qui m'amenerait devant mon hotel (pourri) apres mains detour (l'hotel etait le dernier de la trajectoire..) au lieu de prendre l'agreable airport express, qui devrait servir d'exemple a toutes les autres villes du monde. Il faisait ce jour-la (enfin, cet ete-la) une chaleur particulierement etouffante, humide, moite. Bref desagreable.
Certaines choses changent: je me suis mise a aimer Hong-Kong.
Certaines choses ne changent pas (je dirais meme, elles empirent) : http://sg.news.yahoo.com/hong-kong-smothered-worst-air-pollution-two-years-105623038.html
Eh oui, la chaleur d'hier etait forte, mais sacrement desagreable (c'en etait presque a se feliciter d'etre enfermee au bureau, plutot que d'etre a la piscine)(heu.... non quand meme pas)
C'est vrai que la magnifique partielle vue depuis mon 13eme etage hier est devenue sacrement embrumee hier. J'ai betement pense qu'il allait pleuvoir...
Les previsions pour auj n'augurent pas beaucoup plus agreable cela dit... 29-33degres... et je parle pas du ressenti...
HONG KONG (Reuters) - The worst pollution in two years smothered Hong Kong for a second day on Thursday, prompting warnings to the old and sick to stay indoors and obscuring one of the world's most famous views.
Pollution readings were "very high" in business and shopping districts such as Central, Western, Causeway Bay and Mongkok, air monitoring stations showed, surpassed only once in March 2010 when a sandstorm in northern China covered Hong Kong in dust.
"Bad air is trapped here. But even though external circumstances can't blow away the pollutants, the problem still lies fundamentally in vehicular emissions in Hong Kong itself," said Patrick Fung of Clean Air Network, a local pro-environment group.
The view of the cramped skyscrapers of Hong Kong Island and the Peak was obscured from across the harbour in Kowloon.
Air pollution in Hong Kong, a former British colony which returned to Chinese rule in 1997, is a major source of worry for local citizens and foreign businesses, which increasingly see it as compromising the quality of life.
In a recent survey by human resources consultancy ECA International, Hong Kong distinguished itself as a place where its air quality was among the worst in the world.
The pollution comes largely from coal-fired power stations and traffic, though a significant contribution wafts down from the tens of thousands of factories in China's neighbouring manufacturing heartland of the Pearl River Delta.
Under intense lobbying, the government has been gradually tightening its air-quality objectives and monitoring measures to meet World Health Organisation standards, but these remain far short of global guidelines, green groups say.
3 ans ! Wow... J'imagine pouvoir apprendre tout plein de choses en lisant ton blog!... Je suis là depuis 5 mois :)
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J'espere que tu apprendras des choses! ca me ferait bien plaisir. mais je vois que tu baroudes deja pas mal, et que tu as l'air de bien connaitre HK deja. (j'ai vu ton post concernant Sham Shui po, et les DIY !)
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