The Tipping Point, De Guzman of Bre-X, Barbara Kay, Growing an Airline in Canada

The Tipping Point or here May 21, 2005 -- excellent



De Guzman of Bre-X Gold Infamy: Suicide possibly a hoax Brian Hutchinson, National Post, May 25, 2005

He taunts us still. Michael de Guzman, the Filipino geologist who many believe masterminded the $6-billion Bre-X Minerals Ltd. gold fraud, was supposed to have killed himself eight years ago after the giant scam unravelled.

[. . . . ] According to a report in yesterday's Singapore Straits Times, one of Mr. de Guzman's Indonesian wives -- he had several -- said she received a $25,000 money order from the ''dead'' geologist. The money arrived three months ago from a Brazilian branch of Citibank, the Straits Times reported.

[. . . . ] Yesterday's story in the Straits Times might be dismissed as conspiracy mongering, but for the fact it was written by John McBeth, a respected freelancer based in Jakarta.

Search: helicopter , Mr. Felderhof , David Walsh , salting scheme at Busang , Philippines

Why was no-one besides Felderhof charged -- other Canadians? Canadians who pushed that stock on unsuspecting "investors"? Or is it like everything else, no-one is to blame so the decent people lose?



"three zero-achievement years"

Sexism, stood on its head Barbara Kay, National Post, May 25, 2005 -- a must read.

[. . . . ] Never mind Belinda's opportunistic betrayal of her party (and her man) at a critical juncture in parliamentary history, cry Liberal critics and feminists. The real crime here is her detractors' use of -- the horror! -- gender-specific language in denouncing her perfidy.

Well, bring on the gender-specific stereotypes is what I say. It serves to balance a scale wildly skewed by the preferments Belinda has long enjoyed specifically because of her gender. Reverse sexism -- call it gender equity or affirmative action if you like -- got her where she is today, so it is poetic justice that she is now being hoisted by that particular petard. These sexist epithets are chickens coming home to roost, payback for Belinda having been beamed up from her Aurora dressage ring to a Cabinet seat in three zero-achievement years. [. . . . ]

Search: benign sexism , Would any man never before active in politics , sherpa , "an ageing politico, like the other male mentors"




How to Grow an Airline Business

Ho of Harmony Airlines & DTKH Robson Developments

Ho, whose diversified B.C. holdings include MCL Motor Cars, University Golf Club, DTKH Robson Developments and South Alder Greenhouses, has also explored the possibility of purchasing the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks. [or the Toronto Argonauts ]

[. . . . ] Ho and his older brother, Charles, are heirs to the fortune of Hong Kong Tobacco, the largest manufacturer and distributor of tobacco products in Asia that was founded by their grandfather more than 50 years ago.

[. . . . HMY] signed a bilateral agreement in July with China Airlines to provide Taiwan's flag carrier with Vancouver connections to HMY's [Harmony's] North American destinations.

[. . . . ] an agreement with Hainan Airlines . . .

[. . . . ] "It's the Chinese Hawaii," Chu said of Hainan, an autonomous region located in the South China Sea, less than an hour's flying time away from Macau or Hong Kong.

Search here: charter flights from Vancouver to Mexican sunspots , Jackie Chan , free as a favour to my friend , kung fu actor , sick and underprivileged children in B.C. , Toronto , Los Angeles , Las Vegas

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