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Hong Kong Politician Bejeweled, Unrepentant

Posted by simoniker on from the he's-a-gem dept.

Thanks to GamersWithJobs for its story revealing the Hong Kong Education Secretary was recently caught playing a puzzle game on his PDA during a 'lengthy legislative meeting.' According to the original story in the Straits Times, he was spotted playing games by "student representatives, who were seated one row behind the education chief." In addition, GamersWithJobs is delighted to note: "Being the gamer that he is, [Professor Li] even refused to apologize for playing Bejeweled on his PDA, as 'no constructive opinions' were voiced in the debate."

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  1. Something to clarify by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    While the rest of the world thought all politicans are elected by one-person-one-vote basis like the rest of the democratic system, he's not elected. He's been appointed by governer, or Chief Executive Officer Mr. Tung Chee Wah.

    Therefore, he can always find his "What can you do to me? BLOW ME!" attitude.

    You probably don't know him much. Here is a list of good deeds he's doing:

    1) He's planning to merge a major university into Chinese Unversity of whom he was appointed to be the president. Though he declines to give favour to Chinese University in the merge, but his intention is so clear. Say, he proposed to sell the properties of victim university to support the cost of merging.
    2) He withdraw all his promises made during a meeting with student representatives of all students unions. Promises include not cutting budget of all sub-degree programs, which he advocated in the first place.
    3) He refused to talk to students on the issues of huge budget cut on education for the coming years, until recently, thanks to the political climate changed after 5mil+ people hit the street on 1/7/2003

    He's not elected, and he's not accountable.

    1. Re:Something to clarify by Bagels · · Score: 2, Informative

      That's 500,000 people, not 5 million, according to the article you linked to. You're off by an order of magnitude. Still, it's impressive that such a demonstration could take place.

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  2. Re:Acceptable or not by identity0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Norway had a similar case not long ago, where one politician was caught on camera playing games on his cellphone while in session with the parliament.It certainly didn't go down well ;-)

    As I recall, wasn't that guy playing games while the parliment was debating whether to support the U.S. war in Iraq? 0_o I can see why they'd be pissed...