CHINA is making a new attempt to stamp out illicit accounts known as "little coffers" – money that officials skim from public funds.

The latest clampdown on the long-standing practice has fingered several thousand officials nationwide since April. Some 322 of them were referred to judicial departments.

Nearly 25,000 cash boxes were discovered involving 12.2 billion yuan (US$1.8 billion), the Beijing-based Legal Daily reported yesterday.

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China has launched similar nationwide crackdowns in 1989, 1995 and last year.

An official circular titled "Directions on Deepening the Crackdown of Small Exchequers" warned that officials’ attempts to hide illicit accounts or spend funds "in a blitz" will lead to "harsh punishment."

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Central and local departments now have more access to more cash than ever before, and diversion of these funds is a serious problem.
 

A NEW museum for the late Soong Ching Ling, Honorary President of the People’s Republic of China, began construction yesterday.

Being built inside the Soong Ching Ling Mausoleum in Changning District, the museum is expected to open next June.

Born in 1893 in Shanghai, Soong was the wife of Dr Sun Yat-sen, who fought to establish the Republic of China.

After the establishment of the People’s Republic, Soong devoted herself to charitable causes, focusing especially on the welfare of women and children. Many charity foundations are named after her.

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Some exhibits displayed in the museum will be on show to the public for the first time,Its collection of crafty gifts by local artists ranged from felt iPod cases to black stationery, funky jewelry and two owl T-shirts mausoleum officials said.

A local smoking-control law came into effect Wednesday in Guangzhou, the capital of south China’s Guangdong Province.

The law covers all of Guangzhou City. There, smoking in most public places, like offices, conference rooms, halls and elevators, is strictly prohibited.

Places of business larger than 150 square meters or having more than 75 seats may designate an area for smokers.

Those who break the law will be fined 50 yuan (about 7.35 U.S.，Australian ugg boots， dollars) and businesses not meeting their obligations will be fined up to 30,000 yuan.

However, some doubt the law is enforceable.

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"A quick smoke can take less than one minute. How can an enforcement agency come in such little time?" a different pedestrian asked a Xinhua reporter.Festival staff members have also examined expenditures and have taken action, from not hiring staff children stationery to not reordering

Hu Angang, an economics professor at Tsinghua University, said weak smoking-control in China means measurable goals should be included in the twelfth national development plan.

"Putting goals into the national plan shows great political will from state leaders. So the whole of society, especially local governments, will implement it without hesitation. The plan is a binding document for the government," said Hu.

Shanghai began implementing a regulation to ban smoking in 12 types of public places March 1 in an effort to have a smoke-free World Expo.

Shanghai declined a 200-million-yuan sponsorship deal for the 2010 World Expo from a tobacco company in July 2009.

One of the world’s largest tobacco producing and consuming nations, China manufactures about 100 billion packets of cigarettes each year.

It has a smoking population of 350 million, about one third of the world’s total smoking population.

TONY Blair regrets banning fox hunting, but not invading Iraq. He was captivated by Princess Diana, intimidated by Queen Elizabeth. He heaps praise on former US President George W. Bush but calls his close colleague Gordon Brown a man of "zero" emotional intelligence.

Blair’s memoir, "A Journey," which hit the bookstores yesterday, recounts his voyage from political neophyte to youthful prime minister to admired, and then reviled, statesman.

Iraq is his most divisive legacy, but Blair says he is not sorry for his decision to enter the war – although he wept for its victims.

"I regret with every fibre of my being the loss of those who died," Blair writes.

Blair, 57, stepped down in June 2007 after a decade that included a historic peace accord in Northern Ireland,This leather black laptop bag makes a perfect addition to anyone’s outfit. the deeply unpopular war in Iraq and the continuing conflict in Afghanistan.

For many Americans, he remains a valued ally who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the US in the fight against terrorism.

In Britain, swept to power in 1997 on a wave of popular enthusiasm, Blair left office a decade later condemned by many over Iraq and viewed as a liability by much of his own Labour Party.

"A Journey" gives a strong defense of his policies. One of the few Blair says he regrets is the ban on fox hunting. "I didn’t feel how, for fox hunters, this was part of their way of life," he says.

On Gordon Brown, who succeeded him as prime minister, Blair writes: "Gordon is a strange guy, strong, capable and brilliant," but also "difficult, at times maddening."

"Political calculation, yes. Political feelings, no. Analytical intelligence, absolutely. Emotional intelligence, zero."

In contrast, former US President George W. Bush is praised as intelligent, a friend and "a true idealist."

Blair recounts awkward interactions with the queen after Diana’s death. Blair said he tried to get the queen to make a public statement and worried that she found him "presumptuous."

Diana was easier to get along with, an "extraordinarily captivating" woman.

Elsewhere, Blair speaks of his relationship with alcohol, saying he drank a whisky or a gin and tonic before dinner, and a "couple of glasses of wine or even half a bottle with it."

"I had a limit," he says." But I was aware it had become a prop."
 

Tropical storm Lionrock, the eighth of this year, made landfall on east China’s Fujian Province early Thursday morning, local meteorologists said.The grab bag for school grouping includes cashiers, truck drivers, and utility workers. But in a handful of the nation’s 12
Typhoon Lionrock makes landfall in Fujian

The storm landed at Gulei Town of Zhangpu County at around 6:50 a.m. with a speed of 82.8 km per hour near its center.

Under the impact of Lionrock, torrential rain was seen along the coast of Zhangzhou City, and the rain was the heaviest in Dongshan and Zhangpu counties.

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Local meteorologists have warned residents of mudflows and landslides that might be triggered by the tropical storm.

The meteorologists forecast that rainfalls would be up to 100 to 200 mm in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Xiamen and Putian cities of Fujian from Thursday to Friday.

By 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, 162,,Juicy Couture handbags wholesale,200 people in the province had been evacuated to safe places, and 50,703 fishing ships had been back to harbors.