BEIJING: China is investigating a senior official in western Qinghai province for graft, the ruling Communist Party’s corruption watchdog said late on Friday, making him the latest target in a crackdown on corruption.
Mao Xiaobing - the party secretary of Xining, the capital of Qinghai - is “suspected of serious discipline violations” and is being investigated, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) said in a one-line statement on its website.
It gave no further details but in China the term discipline violations is generally used to denote corruption.
President Xi Jinping has said endemic corruption threatens the party’s very survival and has vowed to go after high-flying “tigers” as well as lowly “flies.”
Mao is the eighth provincial or ministry-level official investigated so far this year, the Global Times, a popular tabloid owned by the party’s official newspaper People’s Daily, said yesterday.
2 imams jailed over school fire
YANGON: Two imams in Myanmar have been sentenced to eight years in prison for negligence over a fire at a religious school that killed 13 boys, state media said yesterday.
Around 70 children, some orphans, were sleeping in dormitories at the school inside a mosque complex in Yangon when the blaze broke out in April 2013.
A court in Yangon said in its ruling on Friday that the fire was caused by overheating of an electrical regulator and that the door of the school was locked, according to the New Light of Myanmar newspaper.
The victims died of suffocation when they were unable to escape.
The tragedy fanned religious tensions in the country following a wave of deadly Buddhist-Muslim unrest, but the authorities were quick to rule out arson. Agencies
