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    Quote Originally Posted by R.O.:
    But perhaps his tragedy was that, as Chief Executive, he dealt with businessmen who were too crafty for him, too devious. There are probably ways for a Chief Executive to live a good life, quite legally, but an anglophile civil servant just didn't know how to do it.
    He had been in the game for 40+ years with most of it near the top. Building very close relationships with the Kwok brothers and others. He was not a naive civil servant. There is probably no doubt he could execute extremely well and towns such as ShaTin are a living legacy to his work. The stifling role of CE having to balance the 'needs' of Beijing with the 'wants' of of Hong Kong is somewhat of a poisoned chalice. He pushed the national education, and the very wasteful overly grand integration projects (mainland cities are littered with such trophy projects). He was a loyal man who could get things done (except KaiTak and WSCD)

    Quote Originally Posted by R.O.:
    misconduct sounds like a minor matter. He is being charged, in effect, with giving the appearance of impropriety, that's all, not with actual impropriety. The second charge, of improperly recommending someone for a paltry HK honour, is trivial.
    No wonder he couldn't hold the smiles back in his first public outing in Hong Kong.

    Many questioned left unanswered including what the 'I' stands for in ICAC...
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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    He had been in the game for 40+ years with most of it near the top. Building very close relationships with the Kwok brothers and others. He was not a naive civil servant. There is probably no doubt he could execute extremely well and towns such as ShaTin are a living legacy to his work. The stifling role of CE having to balance the 'needs' of Beijing with the 'wants' of of Hong Kong is somewhat of a poisoned chalice. He pushed the national education, and the very wasteful overly grand integration projects (mainland cities are littered with such trophy projects). He was a loyal man who could get things done (except KaiTak and WSCD)



    No wonder he couldn't hold the smiles back in his first public outing in Hong Kong.

    Many questioned left unanswered including what the 'I' stands for in ICAC...
    Agreed. One can't be naive if you are to rise to the top and become CE of HK. No doubt he once was a capable civil servant too if he was selected for promotion in the first place.

    But once you rise to a certain level in the civil service, where you are charged with making decisions that impacts the business tycoons, that is where the potential problems lie.

    The HK civil service is one of the highest paid civil service in the world. But even so, it pales in comparison to what the top earners in the private sector get. And once you get a taste of the high life, its hard to kick the habit. Once you get used to to the benefits and luxurious lifestyle provided by the tycoons, you don't want to go back to your former humble life.

    That was what caused the fall of Tsang's subordinate, Rafael Hui, the former Chief Secretary for Administration and no.2 in government. He was convicted of five counts of misconduct in office and sentenced to 7.5 years in the slammer.

    Now Hui's boss, Donald Tsang, has fallen for the same unwarranted priviledges of the cosy government-business relationship.
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    Trip down memory lane for those of you who have not been in HK long enough to remember this one:


    A "groundless smear campaign" by some media organizations was aimed at his and his family's integrity, snapped Tsang, who should have been in good shape after a four-day break in Japan ahead of today's start of a three-day debate in the Legislative Council that is supposed to lead to a motion of thanks for his policy address on October 14. Instead, Tsang showed he was bruised by claims that his son's father- in-law, a leading distributor of light bulbs, would benefit from a plan to promote energy-saving lighting - an initiative in the policy address - and that a younger brother's wife received preferential treatment in recovering part of a doomed investment in Lehman minibonds.
    EastSouthWestNorth: Donald Tsang Blames The Media For His Troubles

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    And it was not all that bad .... (Well some say bad ... but you had to be there when this was happening...)

    Something went wrong somewhere and he is being made a scapegoat. Having said that, I'd assume he knows where a few skeletons are buried and I expect that the show will go on, but there will not be any severe sentences (i.e. Raphael Hui style jail terms) given what he's been accused of.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cho-man:
    The HK civil service is one of the highest paid civil service in the world. But even so, it pales in comparison to what the top earners in the private sector get. And once you get a taste of the high life, its hard to kick the habit. Once you get used to to the benefits and luxurious lifestyle provided by the tycoons, you don't want to go back to your former humble life.

    That was what caused the fall of Tsang's subordinate, Rafael Hui, the former Chief Secretary for Administration and no.2 in government. He was convicted of five counts of misconduct in office and sentenced to 7.5 years in the slammer.

    Now Hui's boss, Donald Tsang, has fallen for the same unwarranted priviledges of the cosy government-business relationship.
    At least Rafael truly did enjoy the high life, spending millions on women, wine, music and fine food.

    What makes Donald's story so disappointing is that he threw away his integrity only to hang out with second-rate tycoons and gain tawdry Shenzhen apartments.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dumbdonkey:
    XI is all for fighting corruption. Donald to get double penalty.
    How about CY received 50 millions.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by cykgary:
    How about CY received 50 millions.....
    thats a tax issue. theres no corruption there

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    Quote Originally Posted by cykgary:
    How about CY received 50 millions.....
    yeah, but CY is loyal. For Xi, if you are loyal, you are not corrupt.
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    And Donald is not loyal??


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    Quote Originally Posted by dumbdonkey:
    thats a tax issue. theres no corruption there
    Not true, the VGL was handed lucrative contracts with MTR after CY was in power. Not just a tax issue at all!