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Coked up bankers of Hong Kong

The financial community in Hong Kong is buried in white powder according to one friend of a Hong Kong-based banker who recently jumped to his death after a cocaine binge.

What is going on?

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Depositing fen? It’ll cost you

Banks in Nanjing assess a counting fee for depositing large amounts of coins, meaning that customers lose money if they have several yuan worth of fen to deposit.

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I’m sorry, we can’t serve you here. Your name’s too popular

Too many Li Juns in Guangzhou, so a man couldn’t open a bank account.

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Two crooked Chinese bank officials convicted in the US

Two former managers of a branch of the Bank of China in Kaiping, Guangdong Province, were sentenced to 25 and 22 years by a US District Court in Nevada.

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