Comments on: This is why Owen Bonnici spent €13,400 of taxpayer funds on first-class flights to China for a day https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/owen-bonnici-spent-e13400-taxpayer-funds-first-class-flights-china-day/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sun, 22 Jan 2017 06:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: il-Fesu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/owen-bonnici-spent-e13400-taxpayer-funds-first-class-flights-china-day/#comment-3117975 Sun, 22 Jan 2017 06:23:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=88346#comment-3117975 13,400 euros spent to fly Owen Bonnici and his private secretary to China and back, first class, is more than one year’s maximum pension in Malta.

]]> By: Raphael Darmanin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/owen-bonnici-spent-e13400-taxpayer-funds-first-class-flights-china-day/#comment-3117926 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 21:29:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=88346#comment-3117926 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

BAXXTER, you are so naughty. . And we love it.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/owen-bonnici-spent-e13400-taxpayer-funds-first-class-flights-china-day/#comment-3117912 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:04:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=88346#comment-3117912 Yes, but they’re not. And my point was exactly that: with a population of 1.3 billion you can’t generalise about height.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/owen-bonnici-spent-e13400-taxpayer-funds-first-class-flights-china-day/#comment-3117884 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:34:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=88346#comment-3117884 In reply to FUNtasia.

I trust you do understand that China has a population of 1.3 billion. Urban or rural, indeed.

]]> By: john https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/owen-bonnici-spent-e13400-taxpayer-funds-first-class-flights-china-day/#comment-3117881 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:25:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=88346#comment-3117881 George Borg Olivier loved being photographed with Archbishop Gonzi. It made him look so tall.

]]> By: FUNtasia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/owen-bonnici-spent-e13400-taxpayer-funds-first-class-flights-china-day/#comment-3117879 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:20:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=88346#comment-3117879 You may be wrong about that. Urban Chinese, as opposed to rural ones, are taller than the average Maltese. Few beat us for shortness.

]]> By: Rumplestiltskin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/owen-bonnici-spent-e13400-taxpayer-funds-first-class-flights-china-day/#comment-3117851 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 14:38:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=88346#comment-3117851 In reply to CarrieErbag.

“… the brightest, most successful and most influential minds in government, business, academia and media…?” Really?

Daphne, based on these criteria, I think you would have been more qualified to attend this ‘forum.’

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/owen-bonnici-spent-e13400-taxpayer-funds-first-class-flights-china-day/#comment-3117821 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:49:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=88346#comment-3117821 To make sure his flies are done up before the big speech.

]]> By: CarrieErbag https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/owen-bonnici-spent-e13400-taxpayer-funds-first-class-flights-china-day/#comment-3117803 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 12:26:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=88346#comment-3117803 “Between 22-25 March, over 1,000 of the brightest, most successful and most influential minds in government, business, academia and media will be together at the 2016 Annual Conference with quality time to consider the big and very real idea of Asia’s new future influencing the future of the world”. (Source: Zhou Wenzhong
Secretary General, Boao Forum for Asia)

Erm…..did he not mean 998?

]]> By: Gorg https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2017/01/owen-bonnici-spent-e13400-taxpayer-funds-first-class-flights-china-day/#comment-3117764 Sat, 21 Jan 2017 09:09:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=88346#comment-3117764 And to go there just to deliver a prepared speech, Owen Bonnici had to be accompanied by a ‘private secretary’?

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