Comments on: A photograph from the Chinese press of an official meeting between Malta’s ambassador and a Chinese chairman

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 22:22:17 +0000

Huang Nubo and the Maltese tourism industry?

Hmmm.

http://qz.com/176908/the-chinese-property-tycoon-who-wanted-to-buy-a-chunk-of-iceland-may-settle-for-norway/#176908/the-chinese-property-tycoon-who-wanted-to-buy-a-chunk-of-iceland-may-settle-for-norway/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/europe/iceland-baffled-by-chinese-plan-for-golf-resort.html?pagewanted=all

By: silly

silly — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:33:31 +0000

Qishom fis-sakra f’xi festa.

By: bob-a-job

bob-a-job — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:33:12 +0000

‘Mr. Clifford admired the splendid life of Chairman Huang, who also invited Chairman Huang to visit Malta for investigation’

Investigation? Mela dan Giovanni Kessler jew.

Will Chairman Huang be arrested once he lands in Malta?

By: ken il malti

ken il malti — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:12:46 +0000

Chinese from the north of China tend to be taller than their southern countrymen.

By: Alf

Alf — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:53:03 +0000

Are we still back to those days (for those who remember, which I still do vividly) when a Maltese envoy / ambassador to China in the dark days of Dom Mintoff was quoted as saying that “tant ahna hbieb mac-Cinizi li kwazi nistghu impixxu fil-bwiet ta’ xulxin” (we are so friendly with the Chinese that we can almost pee in each others pocket)?

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:43:07 +0000

Didn’t Borg Marks get an outfit allowance like Mrs Mizzi’s? He needs it.

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:36:23 +0000

1970s China was essentially Chairman Mao – he died in 1976 while in power.

Chairman Mao was the architect of China’s Cultural Revolution, which saw millions dead, tortured, imprisoned or exiled to remote provinces. He was also the architect of the ‘reforms’ which led to mass starvation and famine in which millions died, with people being reduced to cannibalism.

That Clifford Borg Marks felt such a great affinity with Chairman Mao and Red China in his era says a great deal about Borg Marks.

Mulatu Teshome, now president of Ethiopia, was also on a scholarship at Peking University in the 1970s.

http://english.cntv.cn/2014/05/04/VIDE1399177800542760.shtml

Mulatu Teshome and Joseph Muscat were both among the very few foreign guests of the Chinese government at the Eco Forum in Guiyang last week.

Chinese wheels within wheels…

By: Timon of Athens

Timon of Athens — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:04:13 +0000

In reply to Conservative. Considering Chinese men in general are rather short.

By: Carmelo Micallef

Carmelo Micallef — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:15:46 +0000

In reply to Neil. Not in the north of China he isn't. [Daphne - This north-south business with height is ridiculous and doesn't hold up anywhere. Taller in the north and shorter in the south? Rubbish. Height is linked to ethnic origin; geographical location is the result of the predominance of the genes of certain ethnic groups or their descendants in that area. That's why Libyans, for example, tend to be taller and longer-limbed on average than the Maltese. That's just one example.]

By: Jozef

Jozef — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:15:25 +0000

‘..Mr. Clifford admired the splendid life of Chairman Huang, who also invited Chairman Huang to visit Malta for investigation and welcomed Zhongkun Group invest in the tourism industry of Malta…’

Malta Today’s Pisani has competition.