Law takes
center stage
at Congress
11/3/2008 9:37
Chen Yunying, a law maker from Taiwan, talks to reporters before a panel
deliberation on the reports delivered by the country¡¯s top judge and prosecutor
at the ongoing session of the top legislature in Beijing yesterday. Thirty-five
officials at provincial or ministerial level, 930 at municipal level and nearly
14,000 at or above county level were investigated for embezzlement, bribery and
misappropriation of public funds in the past five years. At the same time courts
tried 120,000 embezzlement, bribery and dereliction of duty
cases.¡ªXinhua
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