QUOTES OF THE WEEK

'You wonder whether he was a crook from day one or whether he became one as the problems piled up,' a Carrian case insider, describing George Tan who admitted fraud plot charges involving US$238 million this week.

'If he hasn't learned his lesson this time, he never will,' Robert Keam, friend of Warwick Reid, jailed again, this time in New Zealand, for 21/2 years.

'Hong Kong women are beautiful and they work very hard,' American Vietnamese Thu Ha explaining why he was looking for a wife through an advert in the Post which involved him waiting in the City Library for hopeful suitors to arrive.