Diluting commercial interest coverage?

Foreign websites on June 19 reported that both shipping lines and officials from the Taiwan, Kaohsiung Port have denied wrongdoing after 46 executives were indicted for corruption for inflating container volumes to meet bonus targets.

Among those indicted by Kaohsiung prosecutor's office were Kaohsiung Habour Bureau director general Hsieh Ming-hui and officials from eight shipping lines. I thought given The Times' penchant for covering news pertinent to the commercial community and given space limitation it would print this news rather than the dubious one of the legalisation of brothels in Taiwan.

It is true that red light ventures are profitable for their operators, while undoubtedly increasing the misery index in no small measure. Yet I would have thought that there would be more interest locally for maritime news from that part of the world, with the attendant side interest in the backfiring of performance-based rewards, as the above news item has demonstrated yet again. Provisions so popular for inclusion in some collective agreements even locally and whose outcomes might be other than the purpose for which they were thought of in the human resources department drawing board!