3 x Sunday Post...........will this become a NEVERENDING STORY ?

"Foreign rescue teams refused visas in HK": Two international disaster response teams that flew to Hong Kong and tried to join the Sichuan earthquake rescue effort have been refused permission to enter the mainland.....The two volunteer teams, run by independent charities, brought state-of-the-art location and rescue equipment, for which Beijing last week issued an international appeal.......The 10 member British team, which arrived on Tuesday, had an ultrasonic location device, a carbon dioxide probe that tracks the living by their breath and two tiny, flexible cameras that can be inserted through holes in the rubble......." And so on .......If only this guys would have been able to save 1 life with this equipment and their willingness to go there......it would have been worth to give them the visas in an unbuerocratic and fast delivery - no more to add to this story !
and
"Confusion still reigns over visas at border".........talking about confusion again as per several posts on asiaexpat it seems in Lowu still possible to get a 5-day Shenzhen Visa - but this is not very important for the most of us, as we need to go other places than Shenzhen............................
AND THEN on page 15:
"TIED UP IN TANGLE OF VISA RED TAPE" 1 page report by Liz Heron....this is just some kind of sum - up of the whole story - but what is here not very much highlighted is that day-to-day business necessity of a multiple entry visa for people who are running HK companies and have strong ties to mainland factories + suppliers in different places/provinces. And how all this business is affected because we are not able to "go to the mainland as we could do it the last 10 years......".
For example: Tomorrow Dongguan, back to HK, 3 days in HK office, then go Nanjing for three days...from Nanjing go 2 days Shanghai and then 2 days Hangzhou..then back to HK - honestly how can we document all this before applying a visa ?
We still do not KNOW WHEN THIS TRIP MUST HAPPEN - because (sorry) of the very bad and unreliable timing of most of the China suppliers this is always a matter of back and forth 1 or 2 or 3 days - nobody can make bookings for this...........Got it ?