The List…
Leak in! Well-informed sources have circulated an unprecedented list of top People’s Liberation Army (PLA) officers “who have been booked for corruption” and Talkers screened it with his own eyes in the wee hours of a stormy night. Hush. 36 major generals, no less, are on the blacklist – including a former vice chairman of the all-mighty Central Military Commission. We have never seen so many stars in sight since the desert in Dubai. But yet again PLA is 2,285,000-strong, 0.18 percent of China’s total population. “The unusual list of 36 senior and high-ranked corrupt officers suggests that today all is not well with China’s PLA.” To say the list – least – we may add, actually, the world is in deep trouble.
… And an education
“So alarming is the [corruption] problem” at the highest echelons of the PLA, that a state-run agency revealed this week that “the government in Beijing this month sent over 70 officials and their spouses to spend a day in prison in central Hubei Province “as an educational warning,” as to what could happen if they indulged in corrupt practices. The agency reported that, “the trip gave them a chance to meet 15 former government staff serving custodial sentences for corruption.” Wow, that should have made their trip! Talkers felt shivers down the spine thinking of the possibilities these “gang-of-four-like” tactics may open… Just out of the blue, two come to mind: Pro-smoking advocates jailed for a week in a smoking room; politicians deprived of a car with driver for a month in Macau.
The Richest correction
Talkers googled it: is Uncle Stanley back “alive and well” at therichest.com? “Since its founding, [Angela] Leong has been serving as the director of Sociedade de Jogos de Macau which is a casino company owned by Stanley Ho, her husband.” [Corrected from “her late husband”.] “Also, she has been serving as the managing director of Sociedade de Jogos de Macau since December 2010.” [Correction two detected.] “She has five children with Ho” [yet another]. Now, for The Richest, “Stanley Ho is considered as one of the wealthiest men in Macau and Asia. In fact, he owns a number of businesses across different industries which include real estate, shipping, tourism, banking, air transport, and entertainment.” He must be alive then.
Blogoscope
“Supply will create the demand,” Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands’ CEO, said at a conference in New York City on Wednesday. What Adelson is saying is that despite a Chinese government crackdown on gambling that has decimated casino revenues over the past year, he believes that if he and other casino moguls build more casino resorts the gamblers will come. But that’s not the case. The casinos that will be built will look nothing like the ones that turned Macau into the world’s gambling capital. They can’t, because Chinese President Xi Jinping won’t allow it.”
Businessinsider.com
in others’ words
“I’ve found myself that teachers’ cultivating of [students’] independent thinking in the classroom is on the decline.”
Choi Chi U, Educator (commenting on the anniversary of the May 25, 2014 rally)
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