To make matter worse,according to Sosa, the government has fired thousands of technicians from the state-owned oil company,PDVSA and replaced them with workers whose primary qualification is their loyalty to President Chavez.
VOA: standard.2010.08.06
To prepare, officials have made forays to Scandinavia, whose state-company dividend policies are regarded as a model.
Stevens, 84, was charged with scheming to conceal thousands of dollars worth of gifts from a major employer in his state, a company on whose behalf he sometimes intervened in Washington.
In 2003 Chua was named CEO of Raffles Holdings, which was 60% owned by CapitaLand (whose own majority investor is state-owned investment company Temasek).