Word: corrupter
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...hear it and see it all over Indonesia. People laugh at the suggestion that the government can or will improve their lot. It's not a happy laugh. It sounds more like resignation, a self-preserving suppression of hope. Politicians are considered corrupt until proven innocent, and if they are proven innocent, then the judge is probably corrupt. "They can change Presidents 10 times a day and my life will still be the same," Saharudin's brother had said. Sinar is disillusioned by the treatment of Malays in the area. In Java, grown men fight tears when they recall...
...story. Days after his death, China's most progressive newspaper, Southern Weekend, weighed in with a characteristically cheeky eulogy. It condemned Zhang's violence but bucked the official line by mythologizing the outlaw's deeds. Zhang represents "the weak" of China, the paper wrote, and showed more pluck than corrupt officials who "feign civility while filching riches." Now Zhang has reached from his grave to claim a new victim: China's liveliest paper...
...That's what undid Southern Weekend, best known for searing investigations into controversial topics like teenage drug syndicates and kidnapped women sold as brides. The weekly protected itself by rarely reporting on its home province of Guangdong, one of China's most corrupt, and focusing instead on its neighbors. Since power in China stovepipes upward, Southern Weekend was rarely smoked out. Two months ago, however, Beijing convened a national propaganda meeting at which other provincial leaders "demanded that the paper be stopped," says an editor at a party-run newspaper. Critics included provincial leaders from Hunan, who didn't appreciate...
...critical book on the government's response to the 1976 Tangshan earthquake that killed 2 million people. In 1989 he was sacked from an army newspaper for questioning the Tiananmen massacre. A decade later he lost a job on television for what was then a rare exposE of a corrupt official. Two years ago, he joined Southern Weekend, replacing another editor pushed aside for her daring investigative articles. One suspects Qian will survive to fight further battles. Like the paper's other tarnished editors, he has been transferred but not fired. Despite earning three yellow cards, the paper, with...
...living in the fringes of southern India's forests, Veerappan is a near folk hero. In a region with few jobs, he employs them to fell and transport sandalwood trees, pays for people's weddings and, by avoiding capture for decades, has successfully thumbed his nose at legions of corrupt politicians and government officials...