Hu Continues Graft Crackdown in China – Scott McDonald

From AP:
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President Hu Jintao has vowed to tighten a crackdown on rampant corruption amid the growing number of arrests of top Communist Party officials and senior judges across China for graft and other misdeeds…

The government faces an “arduous fight against corruption,” Hu said in comments carried Wednesday on the front pages of major newspapers, such as the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party…

Xinhua said in the 12 months to June 2006, more than 3,100 commercial bribery cases were uncovered involving government employees, worth $121 million. [Full Text]

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