Nepotism

26 May 2013

A dragon begets a dragon, a phoenix begets a phoenix and the son of a mouse is good at digging holes, goes the Chinese idiom. Sadly, however, a culture of nepotism in the promotion of young...

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Top Communist Party unit to tighten rules on rapid promotions

18 May 2013

The Communist Party's powerful Central Organisation Department, its top personnel management organ, has pledged to apply a tougher yardstick to the exceptionally rapid promotion of cadres...

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Xinhua spurs talk that rising star is son of ex-NPC chief Wu Bangguo

16 May 2013

An unusual Xinhua report has sparked speculation that the state-run news agency has taken a subtle shot at the promotion of a man who could be the son of a powerful political figure.

4:31AM

The Son also Rises: nepotism doesn't disappear in China, it just gets a promotion

13 May 2013

Throughout Chinese history, the expression ya nei originally meant palace guards but later referred generally to children of government officials. In traditional Chinese opera and drama, they are...

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Questions over son's rapid rise in Guangdong county leads to his demotion

12 May 2013

A 29-year-old deputy county head of Jieyang in Guangdong has been demoted to the rank of clerk after internet users questioned whether his father, who held the post before him, had a hand in his...

6:28AM

Call for probe into rise, and fall, of 25-year-old mayor in Jining

28 Apr 2013

Han Han, the 25-year-old mayor of a town in Jining, Shandong, quit her job last Sunday at the same time her father stepped down from an important post on the city's Communist Party committee amid...

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25-year-old Shandong town mayor resigns over allegations of nepotism

A 25-year-old town mayor in Shandong resigned on Sunday along with her father, the head of a municipal department, after her meteoric rise through the ranks was cut short by allegations of...

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Official nepotism figure among China's civil servant jobs draws scepticism

While some job seekers in China would do anything for a civil service job many people believe job seekers with parents working for the government have a better chance of being hired.

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Syrian envoy says country is ready to discuss departure of Bashar al-Assad

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Assad's exile the only way for Syria

The tide has turned against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's regime. Although rebels are battling for control of the capital, Damascus, and the second city, Aleppo, civil war having come to the...

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Quotes of the week

We may have a higher level of 'wartime security measures' here

Activist Hu Jia tweets on the watch around his home

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We may have a higher level of 'wartime security measures' here

Activist Hu Jia comments on Twitter that security around his home has been beefed up over the past few days

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