Beggars belief
On January 24 you published a photograph with the caption "A well-dressed pedestrian strolls past a beggar on a Beijing street." The photograph shows a seated old Chinese man, neatly dressed with forward-groomed grey hair, holding a cigarette in his left
On a recent trip to Beijing, I did not see a single beggar on its streets. Bangkok is a city of beggars, not Beijing.
Rodney Griffith
Bangkok
