The Qantas Group believes its future lies in China, ask Alan Joyce about all the money the Australian shareholders will make out of the Chinese.....
Oh wait!
THE Chinese legal system has struck again against a successful Australian business person, this time a single mother who founded a private university in Guangzhou.
The case of Charlotte Chou has been kept quiet since she was taken from her home on the night of June 24, 2008, while her one-year-old boy was asleep.
Ms Chou was interrogated while being deprived of sleep for several days, without access to a lawyer, and later convicted of bribery on the basis of those confessions, say family members. She was released in December 2009 and immediately re-arrested at the prison gate.
The next chapter in Ms Chou's three-year ordeal will occur on August 30, when she will be tried for embezzlement.
Ms Chou's case is the fifth that The Age has exclusively revealed involving a successful Australian citizen being detained by Chinese police in murky circumstances.
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Another Australian hits China's legal wall
Didn't you learn anything from your Vietnam experience Alan? Alan?
TWO Australian Qantas executives have been held in Vietnam and the former boss of joint venture Jetstar Pacific arrested over losses at the budget carrier.
Qantas executives Daniela Marsilli and Tristan Freeman have not been formally charged but were forced to spend Christmas in Vietnam and are still prevented from leaving the country.
The two are part of a team seconded to modernise Jetstar Pacific, 27 per cent owned by Qantas.
Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas, which part owns Jetstar, admitted that losses from so-called fuel hedging ran into hundreds of millions of dollars but said the practice of fuel hedging was routine within the airline industry.
He added that he was confident the employees had done nothing wrong.
Qantas bosses held in Vietnam | The Australian