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China raps state-owned firms for lack of party loyalty

Central Committee of CCP (20 Jul) - China’s top graft-busting agency rapped the country’s powerful state-owned industries on Monday for their often hazy loyalty to the ruling Communist Party, saying management must understand that the party will never relinquish control of the sector. As part of president Xi Jinping’s...

Bhopal is India’s accident and suicide capital

(19 Jul) = India's suicide and road accident capital is an unlikely city - Bhopal. New official data shows that the city recorded 56.6 suicides per 1 lakh population, and 95 road accident deaths for every lakh motor vehicles - the highest rate among 53 mega cities. Suicide in Cities The Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India...

N Korea: Voters singing and dancing as they cast votes

North Koreans went to the polls on Sunday for tighly controlled local elections that saw a 99.97 per cent turnout, state media reported. Pyongyang's state news agency reported that voters were "singing and dancing" as they cast their votes in polls to elect new provincial, city and county representatives put forward by the ruling...