China's anti-graft campaign has moved beyond setting warning examples to deter others. The scale of the investigations, as well as new initiatives and legal reform, indicate that the country intends to fight a protracted war.
Judging by the numbers, China's leaders were for real when they started the frugality campaign on Dec.4, 2012. As of September, more than 80,000 officials had been punished for breaking the rules.
By the end of November, nearly 40 provincial or higher level officials had been snared this year in the ongoing anti-corruption campaign.
In an act of solidarity for the incumbent party's defeat in the local Taiwan election on Saturday, all officials from the Taiwan administrative authority resigned on Monday.
Do you think a fly is less threatening than a tiger? Perhaps yes, if you are talking about things of nature and not Chinese bureaucracy.
As the mass-line educational campaign by the Communist Party of China (CPC) comes to an end, the outcomes of the campaign have been generally well received.
Chinese authorities will focus on environmental protection, sci-tech innovation and improvement of people's livelihood when evaluating the performance of officials in fulfilling their economic responsibilities, a circular published on Sunday said.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) will continue its fight against officials' undesirable work styles, a senior official said on Tuesday.
Shen Hua, a chemical plant executive, filed an application for a new project six months ago, and he is still waiting for local government approval.
Iran is sending drones and military equipment secretly into Iraq to help the Shiite-led government in Baghdad cope with an ongoing offensive by the Sunni militants, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Vietnam's Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) held in capital Hanoi on Tuesday a dialogue on the prevention and fight against corruption in projects using Japanese official development assistance (ODA).
Chinese authorities have decided to remove two senior officials of north China's Shanxi Province from their posts for suspected serious discipline violations.
Special inspection teams dispatched to local regions have found slack management of the ongoing anti-decadence campaign among some local officials, according to China's anti-graft organ.
As more and more formerly powerful officials find themselves behind bar, preventing their previously privileged lifestyle from seeping in to their cells has become an issue.
Political circles of southern China's Guangdong Province are being redrawn as some 1,000 officials either accept demotion or bring their families back from overseas.
China's central discipline inspection agency on Thursday hosted a meeting with police, judicial, foreign affairs and national security departments about stepping up the hunt for corrupt officials fleeing abroad.
The central authority launched a nationwide campaign on Tuesday to encourage people to work and live frugally, and it not the beginning of the top-down war against extravagance.
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