Re: Chinese officials punished for lavish US tour
- From: rst0wxyz <rst0wxyz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 08:31:30 -0800 (PST)
On Dec 6, 8:17 pm, demoris...@xxxxxxx wrote:
Chinese officials punished for lavish US tour
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i50L50C0QPHu5VfZa3C...
The Chinese bureaucrats who spent taxpayers' money on a $700-a-night
Las Vegas hotel and visits to Hawaiian beaches and a San Francisco sex
show might have gotten away with it if someone hadn't lost a bag on
the Shanghai subway.
The dozens of documents and receipts in the bag, with officials' names
and enthusiastic comments attached, were swiftly posted on the
Internet, spreading like wildfire across Chinese cyberspace over the
past week. That brought swift punishment for some officials involved —
and another disgusted shrug from Chinese citizens all-too-familiar
with corruption.
...
The reasons for the trip? Everything from "An Overview of American
History" to "Honest and Clean Government Management."
The documents portray the officials as gushing with satisfaction over
their travels. "The guide did a great job ... including the homosexual
show," wrote one of a stop in San Francisco.
...
Hanf them high and dry.
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