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- Chinese premier stresses clean governance
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao Tuesday urged tougher prevention and punishment of corruption, saying China faced the toughest year in its economic development since the turn of the century.
- Health officials fired for loose work
Two health officials have been fired for mismanagement in the reporting of hand, foot-and-mouth disease and investigators are looking into a possible cover-up, state media said yesterday.
- Lung health warning
Policymakers need to step up efforts to cut smoking rates in Asia to prevent an "epidemic" of tobacco-related lung disease, medical experts have said at a conference in Mumbai.
- Expert: Fiscal stimulus plans to spur revenue growth
Jing Linbo, a Beijing-based economist, told Xinhua Sunday that although China's revenues declined in the first two months, the government's stimulus package can be conducive to revenue growth.
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- Hefty stimulus plan draws concerns over corruption
What people hate most is that local governments usually sing a different tune from central policies during implementation.
- Lack of fiscal transparency to blame for corruption
The lack of essential fiscal information available to the public is posing a serous threat to China's bid for a harmonious society and is to blame for the widespread corruption, a Chinese scholar of public policy said Monday.
- China strives to weed out judicial corruption
China's top judge Wang Shengjun said Tuesday that the Supreme People's Court will "improve education of work ethics" to judges as a way to weed out judicial corruption.
- Tibet to spend 450 mln yuan on environmental protection
The Tibet Autonomous Regional Government has decided to spend 450 million yuan on environmental protection following the central government's approval of 20-billion-yuan investment in building an ecological safety shelter on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
- Tibetans observe traditions in New Year
Padma Chosphel fetched two buckets of water at moments that coincided with the dawn of the first day of the new year.
- Older Tibetans haunted by memories of serfdom
Five decades after the democratic reform, older Tibetans are still haunted by painful memories of the old, feudal society.
- Tibetan officials optimistic about economy
Tibetan economic officials are generally optimistic about regional economic development this year, even though last year's Lhasa riot and the global economic downturn have caused an immediate or indirect impact on the far western autonomous region.
- Indoor fires linked to lung disease
Exposure to burning solid fuel indoors for heat and cooking may cause the lung ailment known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, a study of more than 20,000 people in China has shown.
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