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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
Wed Jul 9, 2014, 11:59 PM Jul 2014

China's 'most influential' oligrach swindled by the 'UN' in US



RT * Published on Jul 9, 2014

Chen Guangbiao. He's a Chinese playboy, multi-millionaire, rescue volunteer and on top of that - a global philanthropist. And he certainly knows his worth. According to Chen's business card - he's China's, quote 'most charismatic philanthropist', and the country's most beloved role model... that's amongst many, many other things.

In June, he coughed up thirty thousand dollars to a charity that said it was affiliated with the UN, and promised to give him another title. Imagine his surprise when he found out his certificate was from the United Nation... not the United Nation(s). Chen, had been duped. Unfortunately, he found little sympathy for his plight... given his own history of altruism, as Marina Portnaya explains.


- It is odd to find someone from China who doesn't understand the concept of plural.
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China's 'most influential' oligrach swindled by the 'UN' in US (Original Post) DeSwiss Jul 2014 OP
Philanthropy is the coolest thing ever discovered by the rich. delrem Jul 2014 #1

delrem

(9,688 posts)
1. Philanthropy is the coolest thing ever discovered by the rich.
Thu Jul 10, 2014, 03:56 AM
Jul 2014

I love it.
It isn't simply charity, which is passed back and forth every day by everybody.

It's charity with a press release - and it's doubly good if the charity is a foundation invented for that purpose by the saint.

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