Same old same old

The old Subic Bay naval base is now a duty free zone, aka shopping center.

But the road is often crowded. Who wants to sit in a traffic jam for three hours to go there? So they are making a road... but a local bureaucrat says: NO you need a permit.

The irony is that the huge amount of paperwork is one reason that businesses have high overhead costs...(one suspects a bribe would have expidated the road building, but I can't confirm that, since I know nothing about details)...

the second irony is that illegal and unregulated business goes on all the time...