One Bukit Batok resident was shocked to discover water seeping from the joints of her kitchen wall when she woke up on the morning of July 29. Not only that, the water that dripped down from the wall was yellow in colour and carried a putrid smell, said the resident, Zhong Xiaohui (transliteration). Zhong, 54, told Lianhe Zaobao that as.
Early this spring, the Chinese character for “demolish” (“拆”) showed up in red spray paint on a strip of shops in Shenzhen’s Baishizhou neighborhood. Wang An, 41, has been selling women’s underwear from one of these shops for the last 10 years. “When they knock it down, I guess we’ll just go home to Hubei [province] and grow vegetables,” he joked in April. The spray paint