Both the SCMP and the Standard have articles today about the closing of 60 year old Lok Heung Yuen Coffee Shop in Central. The SCMP notes the current monthly rent at $128,000 while the Standard pegs it at $120,000. Both note that the restaurant is closing because the landlord raised the rent to … wait for it … $360,000. Both articles manage to interview the same customer and the owner.

The Standard notes that the scumlord may have already signed a contract with a new tenant and so raised the rent to a ridiculous price in order to force the restaurant out. There is no comment about whether such unscrupulous activity, if true, is legal.

And neither article mentions the name of the scumlord. Did both reporters forget to ask? Or are the newspapers shielding the rich?

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The Standard also reports that the MTR will now be charging senior citizens only $2 to ride the trains – but only on Wednesdays and public holidays. Last year they got the $2 fare on Sundays and public holidays. I guess that the seniors actually took advantage of the discount fare on Sundays so the MTR changed it to a day when less people would use it. Nitwits.

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