Remembering Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin is fondly remembered, Xi Jinping meets with Lao President Sisoulith and former Australian prime minister publicly disgraced by parliament.
UPDATE: The Long Mekong Daily editor is finally in recovery, but it may take a few more days to to get to pre-pneumonia level of physical and mental well-being. In today’s edition of the Long Mekong Daily former President of China Jiang Zemin passed away at 96. Jiang oversaw the introduction of the Three Represents, return of Hong Kong, accession to the WTO and winning the 2008 Olympics bid. The visit of Lao President Sisoulith gets both a TV discussion and a radio interview from your recovering editor. Southeast asia’s largest bank is all in on AI and big data. And, Australia’s former prime minister Scott Morrison becomes the first ever ex-PM to be publicly censured by parliament.
Letter to the entire Party, military and people hails Jiang Zemin as an outstanding leader
Jiang Zemin passed away due to leukemia and multiple organ failure in Shanghai at 12:13 pm on Nov 30, 2022, at the age of 96, it was announced on Wednesday.
The announcement was made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China (PRC), the State Council of the PRC, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Central Military Commissions (CMC) of the CPC and the PRC.
It was announced in a letter addressing the whole Party, the entire military and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups.
The letter says they proclaim with profound grief to the whole Party, the entire military and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups that our beloved Comrade Jiang Zemin died of leukemia and multiple organ failure after all medical treatments had failed.
The letter says that Comrade Jiang Zemin was an outstanding leader enjoying high prestige acknowledged by the whole Party, the entire military and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, a great Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionary, statesman, military strategist and diplomat, a long-tested communist fighter, and an outstanding leader of the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. He was the core of the CPC's third generation of central collective leadership and the principal founder of the Theory of Three Represents.
Read Jiang Zemin’s obituary in English here
Read Jiang Zemin’s obituary in Chinese here
Xi holds talks with Lao president
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, held talks Wednesday with Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao president.
Readout: China and Laos will respect and trust each other politically, benefit each other economically, deepen mutual understanding and amity in the people-to-people exchanges, and contribute to the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, the top leaders of the two countries vowed during a meeting in Beijing on Wednesday.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, held talks Wednesday with Thongloun Sisoulith, general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee and Lao president.
The two leaders first expressed deep condolences over the passing away of Comrade Jiang Zemin, former leader of China. Xi said that Comrade Jiang Zemin passed away on Wednesday in Shanghai due to illness after all medical treatments had failed. Thongloun expressed deep condolences over the death of Comrade Jiang, saying that it is a huge loss for the CPC and the Chinese people, and the LPRP and the Lao people feel the same way.
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Power up: How Southeast Asia’s largest bank is becoming AI-fueled
DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank is using MLOps and other efforts to enable the organisation to crack the code on scaling Artificial Intelligence (AI). DBS has won multiple global banking awards, including being named Global Bank of the Year by The Banker, World’s Best Bank by Global Finance, and World’s Best Digital Bank by Euromoney. Data and technology have been crucial to the bank’s success. DBS employs around 1,000 data scientists, data analysts, and data engineers and has roughly twice as many technologists as bankers.
Sameer Gupta is DBS’s chief analytics officer, a pivotal role in a business that has long recognized the potential of AI. In his interview with McKinsey’s David DeLallo, Gupta describes the bank’s AI journey, the importance of balancing boldness with pragmatism, and his mission to industrialize AI across the development life cycle. An edited version of their conversation follows.
David DeLallo: How would you describe your vision for AI at DBS?
Sameer Gupta: A few years ago, when we started this journey, our vision was to maximize outcomes from data. That is still our aim today, only we refine the outcomes yearly based on future casting. This year, what we’re asking at the bank level is: “How can we be an AI-fueled bank?” What that means in practice is that AI is pervasive across all parts of the bank. Our business model needs to be built with AI at the center, with the outputs informing processes across the bank.
David DeLallo: How far along that journey do you think you are?
Sameer Gupta: Our vision has been a few years in the making, and I think we’ve come a long way. Changing the company’s mindset and building an entire architecture of responsible usage of data is not easy. Infrastructure, processes, and systems are only parts of the whole equation. We have amassed a significant base of technical specialists and data scientists, and they have been doing cutting-edge work, creating more than 250 analytics use cases. Skills and capabilities are just as critical for any organization to be able to tap AI to drive data-driven insights. We are focused on enabling employees to think of data first and empowering them with the capabilities and tools to effectively use data and analytics while making decisions. We have revamped our approach to data management and how we look at metadata, security issues, and responsible use. We call it “enable data.” In addition, data platforms are built from scratch, and we now have about 90 percent of our most used data in that single platform. We continually add more features, functionality, and data assets to that platform.
Read the full interview here.
Morrison is first Australian PM to be publicly censured by Parliament
The Australian Parliament debated Scott Morrison’s unprecedented move to have himself installed, almost entirely in secret, into multiple ministries, which culminated in the first-ever House of Representatives censure of a former prime minister.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton – who has previously criticised Morrison’s behaviour – didn’t even make a token effort, remaining silent. The censure condemned Morrison for “failing to disclose his appointments to the House of Representatives, the Australian people and the cabinet, which undermined responsible government and eroded public trust in Australia’s democracy”.
Moving the motion, Leader of the House Tony Burke said the multiple ministries had breached “the absolute core” of responsible government. “That entire concept of responsible government only works if the parliament and, through the parliament, the Australian people know which members of the executive are responsible for what. "There is no previous Liberal prime minister where this sort of motion would ever be moved.”
Read full article here.