Choosing Which Cultural Heritage to Conserve

First published: 30th September 2008

Re: "Cigarette hawkers plead for 'historic' trade to be kept alive"

Before the Government considers the pleas of Author Roger Ho Yao-sheng and cigarette hawkers to allow their 'historic' trade to continue, perhaps they should reinstate a trade far more closely linked with the founding and development of Hong Kong. I am, of course, referring to the opium trade.