Comments for Big Lychee, Various Sectors

Comment on Update From Hemlock by Bonnie Gokson's best friend

Bonnie Gokson's best friend — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:58:34 +0000

The various salt offerings are served from tiny little bowls placed in their own little notches on a long thin wooden board. Each bowl has it’s own tiny little spoon for retrieving and spreading the exotic gourmet salt. It’s heavenly and I love it!

Comment on Update From Hemlock by noantenna

noantenna — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:20:49 +0000

There’s luxury and then there’s stupidity.

Comment on Business Community: Shoeshining its Way to Schism? by Maugrim

Maugrim — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:49:51 +0000

The irony about Wu’s comments is that he doesn’t exactly look svelte himself. Maybe a touch of western blood perhaps?

Comment on Update From Hemlock by Saatchi

Saatchi — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:15:21 +0000

You have to read Montesquieu on the importance of luxury for the economy. Obviously, you attended a third-rate university and do not know about these things. Buy an iPad and download all the free e-books. There are many translations and it is all in big letters.

Comment on Business Community: Shoeshining its Way to Schism? by Grumpy

Grumpy — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:47:37 +0000

Thanks Twang, just done it….
(But it does beg the question about why they are all so coy..)

so – name and shame time:
Michael John Arnold
R J Blake
Prudence Chan
Andrew Chi Fai Chan
Kenrick Fok Choi Fook
Alexander Reid Hamilton
William Ho Sai Kei
Hui Yip Hung eric
Kam chak Pui
Kwan Chuk Fai
Lai Daniel
Leung Kwok Kuen Lincoln
Luk Koon Hoo
McCusker Andrew
Ng Chi Kwan

- with all that manpower, how did they not notice what as going on?? It would be churlish to point out that Alexander Hamilton was also a director (and ran the audit committee) at Citic Pacific -another organisation where the Board and auditors failed to notice what was happening….

Comment on Business Community: Shoeshining its Way to Schism? by Che

Che — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:15:20 +0000

No interfiera en la revolución. La ira de la gente tiene que crecer. ¡Viva la revolución.

Comment on Business Community: Shoeshining its Way to Schism? by Twang

Twang — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:44:02 +0000

@Grumpy
You can go on the company registry website and download a list of the current directors (called “company particulars”) for a few dollars.

Comment on Business Community: Shoeshining its Way to Schism? by The Prodigal Son

The Prodigal Son — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:22:06 +0000

Kudos to Doctor Duopoly for dredging up the memory of AdMart, I had almost forgotten it existed.

These viceroys aren’t doing a good enough job, the question is whether the crown will deign to intervene as it did with CH Tung.

Beijing is happy to mix things up if ‘harmony’ is impacted. The question is whether these rumblings are the start of a quake large enough to catch their attention.

Comment on Business Community: Shoeshining its Way to Schism? by FB3

FB3 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:44:48 +0000

Re the Tycoons, Beijing holds all the cards.

They all want more business on the Mainland & its not too difficult for Beijing to make this more difficult for them if public opinion wakes up & realizes there is little chance of prosperity when they are being bent over & buggered by LKS et al.

The smart mainland tycoons are probably whispering in Beijings ear right now about the bad joss these robbers bring.

Comment on Business Community: Shoeshining its Way to Schism? by isomoliu

isomoliu — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:42:30 +0000

More examples of unwitting foreigners (specifically westerners) drafted in to do what the locals are not capable of: SFC, West Kowloon and, Hemlock’s favourite, bomb disposal. Gweilo executives are great for LegCo questionings. After the tortuous process of having the question translated into English and the answer translated back into Cantonese, everyone has lost track of what the question was about.