How should we judge a government?

In Malaysia, if you don't watch television or read newspapers, you are uninformed; but if you do, you are misinformed!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience - Mark Twain

Why we should be against censorship in a court of law: Publicity is the very soul of justice … it keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. - Jeremy Bentham

"Our government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other. " - Ronald Reagan

Government fed by the people

Government fed by the people

Career options

Career options
I suggest government... because nobody has ever been caught.

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?
Corruption is so prevalent it affects English language?

When there's too much dirt...

When there's too much dirt...
We need better tools... to cover up mega corruptions.

Prevent bullying now!

Prevent bullying now!
If you're not going to speak up, how is the world supposed to know you exist? “Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.” - Ananta Prameodya Toer (Your intellect may soar to the sky but if you do not write, you will be lost from society and to history.)

Monday, February 07, 2011

China's mega merger of 9 cities to make a 'Megalopolis'

Largest city in the world: China to build metropolis twice the size of Wales
26th January 2011

Nine current cities melded to make single 'megalopolis'
New city will be 26 times size of Greater London
150 infrastructure improvements: energy, water, telecommunications
3,100 miles of railway to be laid to connect the cities
China is set to flex its industrial muscles on a scale the world has never seen - with a 'mega-city' twice as big as Wales and a population of 42million.
Blueprints have been laid to meld nine existing urban hubs in the country's manufacturing heartland into a single sprawling metropolis designed to rival the productive firepower of Beijing and Shanghai.
The project is scheduled to be completed within the next six years turning the Pearl River Delta, southern China, into a living space which, at 16,000 square miles, will dwarf Greater London by 26 times.

Metropolis: Guangzhou is already the world's second largest city with 24.9 million people
Dubbed 'Turn the Pearl River Delta into One', the scheme will stretch from Guangzhou to Shenzhen, incorporating Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen, Huizhou and Zhaoqing.
Some 3,100 miles of railway will be laid to connect the cities as just one of 150 infrastructure improvements including, energy, water and telecommunications.
The project's senior consultant Ma Xiangming said: 'The idea is that when the cities are integrated, the residents can travel around freely and use the health care and other facilities in the different areas.'


Melting pot: Nine cities will merge to form one 'mega-city' for 42 million people
Mr Ma, who is also the chief planner at the Guangdong Rural and Urban Planning Institute, said the city will far outstrip Greater London or Greater Tokyo because 'there is no one city at the heart of this megalopolis'.
He told the Daily Telegraph: 'It will help spread industry and jobs more evenly across the region and public services will also be distributed more fairly.'
WORLD'S LARGEST CITIES BY POPULATION (MILLIONS)

1. Greater Tokyo – 34.2
2. Guangzhou – 24.9
3. Seoul – 24.5
4. Delhi – 23.9
5. Mumbai – 23.3
6. Mexico City – 22.8
7. New York City – 22.2
8. Sao Paulo – 20.8
9. Manila – 20.1
10. Shanghai – 18.8
...
23. Greater London - 12.5

He said phone bills will fall by 85 per cent, rail ticket prices will drop dramatically while hospitals and schools will improve.
'Residents will be able to choose where to get their services and will use the internet to find out which hospital, for example, is less busy,' said Mr Ma.
He said the main problem now is naming the area, adding: 'We can't just name it after one of the existing cities.'
In an area where pollution is already a problem, planners hope to tackle it with a 'united policy' while unifying the price of petrol and electricity.
China, now the world's biggest economy, has injected huge sums of cash into investment projects across vast swathes of the country's free land.
It builds around 20 brand new cities each year as it undergoes urbanisation on a scale bigger than the world has ever seen.
Its total investment in urban infrastructure will equal around £685billion over the next five years while, by 2025, it will have added some 350 million city-dwellers to its population.
China will pave 5billion square metres of road, add up to 170 mass transit systems, and build 40 billion square metres of floor space to house its soaring population.

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