china executes former head of food safety agency

[yoMAMA]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118404201266061966.html?mod=home_whats_news_asia

awesome news!

next on the execution list should be those slave brick factory owners, their protectors in the government, police, corrupt officials....

[tripostrophe]

oh gosh, execution? :eek:

[yoMAMA]

oh gosh, execution? :eek:

Yep.

When you bring shame to the glorious communist party (and when you don't have a protector in the politburo), you die.

[AgentTofu]

Arrested in February. Executed in July.

On corruption charges.

Damn, China is hard pressed to show they are a 'safe' country for the 2008 games. Yet for all of the hub-bub for this massive PR fest, these kind of measures aren't helping.

[huangalex]

They can execute all they want but it doesn't change the fact that their federal government has no power to enforce health and consumer safety regulations. It's got no rein on the regional government or the private sector.

[MD2020]

Great, I was thinking of getting a new kidney