Pretty China MM coming to Australia with lots of $$$. ;)

[Ash007]

Hope to see her on the street here soon.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-tale-of-the-girl-called-pretty-pretty--baby-her-extravagant-lifestyle-and-the-chinese-red-cross-20110707-1h3ml.html

The tale of the girl called 'Pretty Pretty Baby', her extravagant lifestyle and the Chinese Red Cross
Glenda Kwek
July 7, 2011 - 1:26PM

Charity fund scandal enrages China
Anger mounts in China after a woman is caught posing as the commercial general manager for Red Cross Society of China on her micro-blog.
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She calls the white Maserati she drives the "little horse", and her orange Lamborghini the "little bull".

Guo Meimei, 20 - who goes by the name "Guo Meimei Baby" - may be just another young woman flaunting her wealth through photographs posted on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, but her link to the Red Cross of China has sparked a national debate around how donations to charities are used.

The Red Cross of China is one of the country's largest charities and has strong ties to the communist government. And evidence of Ms Guo's extravagant lifestyle has made the Chinese suspicious in a country where the divide between rich and poor is growing and corruption is rife.

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Guo Meimei Baby ... accused of taking money that was meant for charity. Photo: AFP
In her microblog, Ms Guo, whose name "Mei" means "pretty", has posted photos of herself with the sports cars, a pile of luxury Hermes handbags, sipping drinks in business class on a flight and showing off her luxury villa.

She identified herself as "commercial general manager" at the Red Cross, a position verified by Sina - the company that runs Weibo.

Suspicious Chinese netizens are asking how a young woman such as Ms Guo came into such wealth. Did she or her boyfriend embezzle money from the Red Cross to line their own pockets?


In business class ... Guo Meimei Baby. Photo: AFP
Their suspicions were fuelled by a photo that surfaced on the internet in April, which revealed the Shanghai branch of the Red Cross spent 9859 yuan ($1420) on a meal.

China's state auditor also announced in recent weeks that it found five discrepancies in its review of the Red Cross's 2010 budget, prompting a denial of corrupt practices from the organisation, which has often been in the forefront of official fund-raising drives following natural disasters.

Ms Guo later backtracked on her Red Cross job title as China's online activists swung into action and dug up information about her past and her relationships.


One of her cars ... Guo Meimei Baby. Photo: AFP
But the damage had been done and rumours about Ms Guo and the Red Cross continued to grow.

When she tried to leave the country - purportedly to Australia - to get away from the spotlight, the Australian embassy in Beijing was inundated with calls and emails from people expressing fears that she was going to run away with "their donation money", the Shanghai Daily reported.

The netizens had alleged Ms Guo was the girlfriend or mistress of a senior official, 42-year-old Wang Jun, who organised charity campaigns for the Red Cross.


Living the high life ... Guo Meimei Baby poses on a horse. Photo: AFP
On Weibo alone, more than 600,000 posts a day were written about Ms Guo, London's Daily Telegraph reported. Weibo has more than 1.4 million users, according to government-run Chinese newspaper the People's Daily.

Mr Wang was forced to resign from his job as a result of the furore, while the Red Cross vehemently denied any links to Ms Guo.

Ms Guo played down her links with the mega-charity in a special report into the controversy on national broadcaster CCTV.

"The wording 'Red Cross Society' is too sensitive," Malaysia's The Star newspaper reported her as saying.

"Everybody was saying that I used the organisation to make big bucks."

The English-language China Daily - another state-run paper - weighed in on the debate.

"The RCSC [Red Cross Society of China], as a non-profit charity organisation, has the obligation to keep all its activities transparent and let the public know how it manages its donations and where it has spent them.

"Yet, its lack of transparency in the use of charity donations has long been a matter of concern to the public."

The People's Daily - the mouthpiece of China's Communist Party - also acknowledged the growing influence of social networking tools on Chinese society and politics in an article titled: How microblogging power shakes reality in China.

"Microblogging was introduced in China in 2009 and has quickly developed into a major channel of public opinions within less than three years. Many hot incidents were first exposed through microblog posts.

"From the forum to microblogging, the people's enthusiasm and ability to participate in public affairs has greatly risen along with the nternet, which is developing at an unbelievable speed."

English-language social media sites Facebook and Twitter - which attract millions of users worldwide and through which aspects of the Arab Spring revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa were organised - are banned in China.

Yet local sites Tencent (China's largest internet service portal), Weibo, Baidu (a search engine) and Renren (sometimes dubbed the Chinese Facebook) have grown in popularity in recent years, and are among the world's most visited online networking sites.

The ultimate victim of the widespread outrage may be China's philanthropy drive.

Last year, Chinese citizens donated 70 billion yuan ($10 billion) to charities compared with 54 billion yuan in 2009, Agence France-Presse reported, quoted the official Xinhua news agency.

The country is still new to philanthropy and the China Development Brief, a prominent publication, said local charities' "lack of transparency and mechanisms to track donations" remained major stumbling blocks, AFP said.

The China Daily said as a result of the uproar over Ms Guo, 90 per cent of people who took part in an online poll the newspaper conducted indicated they would not donate to the Red Cross of China any more.

The Financial Times noted: "There is also a deeper problem in the lack of trust in a society whose wealthiest members often get rich through government connections.

"The idea that people would, out of the goodness of their hearts, give money away is scoffed at."

- with AFP



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/te...e-red-cross-20110707-1h3ml.html#ixzz1RO9cKcYM

 

[KNNBCCB]

You take the girl. I take the money. On?

 

[Ash007]

You take the girl. I take the money. On?

You in Australia?

 

[streetsmart73]

You take the girl. I take the money. On?

hi there


1. bro, no offence.
2. karma!
3. honest, such specimen and monies, betterer don't touch mah.

 

[KNNBCCB]

You in Australia?

Haha no la... but I can go there take the money...

 

[KNNBCCB]

hi there


1. bro, no offence.
2. karma!
3. honest, such specimen and monies, betterer don't touch mah.

Bro...I just take money only... no touch touch...

 

[cockie]

Bro...I just take money only... no touch touch...

Ha ha the so call Mr.Wang have to resign because this stupid china gal who show off on the Internet was so call his girl friend aka mistress...... Ha ha career destroy due to a CB........ Stupid china man

 

[Ash007]

Ha ha the so call Mr.Wang have to resign because this stupid china gal who show off on the Internet was so call his girl friend aka mistress...... Ha ha career destroy due to a CB........ Stupid china man

Many Singaporean also "died" at the hands of women. Jack Neo is the last one I recalled recently.

 

[drifter]

religion is a tools to control ppl mind and their pockets...imagine if there are no religions in the world there wont be any charities group out there to con ppl money ...ppl who donate $ usually think that by donating money they are doing good deeds ...and in return get a place in heaven after they die . religions and charities groups are selling emotions ...charities groups also make use of religions to make money ...in directly ...now start thinking .

 

[drifter]

hi there


1. bro, no offence.
2. karma!
3. honest, such specimen and monies, betterer don't touch mah.

bro...theres no such thing as karma in this world ...the word karma is over used . the reason why this bitch kena caught is not because of karma either ...its because of her own stupidlity ...she show off her wealth ..

 

[Unrepented]

IMO, it is prefectly ok to use karma; it can refer to simple cause and effect which can be long or short term in nature.

bro...theres no karma in this world ...the word karma is over used ....

 

[drifter]

IMO, it is prefectly ok to use karma; it can refer to simple cause and effect which can be long or short term in nature.

life is full of ups and downs ..when ups ppl say its good karma ..but when downs they say bad karma ...have you not heard of good ppl die early or going at the same speed rate of ppl who do bad deeds ? delusions ppl always say , those who do bad thing will get bad karma ....its only the time ...sooner or later . come on .....as i say life is uncertain...dont blame it on karma ...if somethings goes wrong blame it on your own stupidlity .

 

[drifter]

karma is like the idea of heaven and hell, rewarding good people and punishing bad people...all religions work the same way ...using it to control your thoughts and actions

 

[Unrepented]

You are right. It is the person's stupidity that lead him or her to a certain action, which is the cause, then there will be an effect.

I do not see this from a religious perspective, rather it is logic.

We are not always mindful of our actions for each and every moment. So our actions, the words said or the way we behave will have an impact on those around us; which is the cause and will have an effect in the timeline.

life is full of ups and downs ..when ups ppl say its good karma ..but when downs they say bad karma ...have you not heard of good ppl die early or going at the same speed rate of ppl who do bad deeds ? delusions ppl always say , those who do bad thing will get bad karma ....its only the time ...sooner or later . come on .....as i say life is uncertain...dont blame it on karma ...if somethings goes wrong blame it on your own stupidlity .

 

[middaydog]

You take the girl. I take the money. On?

I don't mind taking de horse :(

 

[drifter]

You are right. It is the person's stupidity that lead him or her to a certain action, which is the cause, then there will be an effect.

I do not see this from a religious perspective, rather it is logic.

We are not always mindful of our actions for each and every moment. So our actions, the words said or the way we behave will have an impact on those around us; which is the cause and will have an effect in the timeline.

so do you believe that if you do good deeds you get good karma ?

 

[drifter]

the notion of karma is an idea that people created to help them cope with the unfairness of life. people want to believe that one day everything will be made right.

unfortunately, there is no logical reason to believe karma is real.

 

[Unrepented]

The term "Karma" is a process of cause/s and effect/s. Maybe the word that you intended was "get good merits (and not karma)".

I believe in not to engage in negative deeds inorder to avoid negative effects.....and not purely for the sake of accumulating "merits".

so do you believe that if you do good deeds you get good karma ?

 

[drifter]

The term "Karma" is a process of cause/s and effect/s. Maybe the word that you intended was "get good merits (and not karma)".

I believe in not to engage in negative deeds inorder to avoid negative effects.....and not purely for the sake of accumulating "merits".

what makes you think if you engaged in negative deeds you will get negative effects and vice-versa ? you are indeed thinking of merits ( i call it rewards ) . karma is like the idea of heaven and hell, rewarding good people and punishing bad people...all religions work the same way ...using it to control your thoughts and actions . if theres no rewards ..i dont think your religion ( in fact all religions )can survived that long .. the notion of karma is an idea that people created to help them cope with the unfairness of life. people want to believe that one day everything will be made right.

one of the most important key words in all religion is .......REWARDS . theres no unconditional actions ...all things comes with rewards ....including religions . reward is the only thing that can motivate humans ...



the word karma is hidden under the name "reward " .

 

[Unrepented]

Bro, lets take this to another thread inorder not go off topic for the respect of the TS.

I enjoy a debate that may have the opportunity to debunk my perspectives.

"To Karma or not to Karma"

......