As Pacquiao has ascended into one of the planet's most compelling athletes, so has the reputation of the 51-year-old Roach, Pac-man's soft-spoken engineer in the corner, counseling wisely behind black-rimmed eyeglasses.
But anyone who thought that there was going to be a slowdown in infrastructure build-out this year, as the government tries to engineer a soft landing to its spectacular economic growth, need only stare at the Shanghai skyline for a few days, if not just a few minutes.
