China’s ruling to target key officials in corruption fight: mediaJanuary 15, 2016 - 08:44 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - China's ruling Communist Party will sustain the pressure in its graft-busting campaign this year and will make corrupt officials in key posts priority targets and aim to investigate all central-level party and government bodies, Reuters reports. The party's internal corruption watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said the investigations of former security tsar Zhou Yongkang and Ling Jihua, a one-time aid to former President Hu Jintao, had "removed hidden political dangers". Following a three-day annual planning meeting the commission warned late on Thursday, January 14 that problems remained. "Those who hold important posts and are likely to be further promoted but have not stepped back from their serious corrupt behaviors will be 'top priority'," the state news agency Xinhua quoted the commission as saying. Xinhua said 47 inspection teams had looked into major central party and government agencies, and the commission would aim to cover all of them this year. The president and party boss, Xi Jinping, has made the fight against corruption, long viewed as a threat to the Communist Party's grip on power, a centerpiece of his leadership over the past three years. Dozens of senior officials have been jailed and tens of thousands of officials nationwide have been investigated and punished. Zhou Yongkang, once one of China's most powerful politicians, was imprisoned for life last year. Xi this week said the anti-corruption drive had shown good results and increased public confidence in, and support for, the party. The long arm of the party's crackdown has even reached abroad. On Thursday, China announced that it had secured the return of a top corruption suspect who had been in Britain, the latest person from a list of 100 overseas fugitives repatriated during the graft crackdown. Top stories Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on April 22 to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Authorities said a total of 192 Azerbaijani troops were killed and 511 were wounded during Azerbaijan’s offensive. In 2023, the Azerbaijani government will increase the country’s defense budget by more than 1.1 billion manats ($650 million). The bill, published on Monday, is designed to "eliminate the shortcomings of an unreasonably broad interpretation of the key concept of "compatriot". Partner news | Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. Byblos Bank Armenia celebrates Students' Day with scholarship recipients YSU students who received scholarships from Byblos Bank Armenia gathered in a casual setting to meet with the Bank's CEO, Hayk Stepanyan. Azerbaijan extends Rune Vardanyan’s arrest by 5 months A court in Azerbaijan has extended the arrest of former Nagorno-Karabakh leader Ruben Vardanyan by five months. Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. |