Word: rongji
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...Even Zhu Rongji looked pretty good by comparison. The outgoing Chinese Premier gave the opening address and sternly reminded accountants that their motto should be "make no false account." Besides presenting China as an unlikely model for pristine accountancy, the congress's chief priority was restoring the public's image of accountants as honest and boring. Unusually animated IFAC President Ren? Ricol took charge of the defense, exhorting fellow double-entry doyens to share "a passion for the quality of accounts and their audit; for taxation, for information systems, for management controls and systems." I liked Ricol, whose public speaking...
...China Premier Zhu Rongji complicated matters further by ordering a crackdown on tax evasion that targeted China's wealthiest citizens. Yang was investigated, but no wrongdoings were uncovered. To quell jitters, Yang called an extraordinary news conference in Hong Kong in July to deny a press report that he'd cheated on taxes or fled China to escape prosecution. "If I evade taxes, I can't leave China. So my presence in Hong Kong is the best proof," Yang said...
...frequent disasters made the government look ineffectual, and that forced Premier Zhu Rongji, himself a Hunan native, to take action in 1998. According to Liang Haitang, a Hunan-based supervisor for WWF, an international conservation organization, Zhu dreamed up "the wisest flood control policy ever issued...
...Beijing-based Adam Eve Health Centers, is trying to ensure China is not left behind in the race to perfect the vibrator. During a question-and-answer segment at last month's Boao Economic Forum, a regional summit held on Hainan Island, Wen urged Prime Minister Zhu Rongji to work with Thailand on a sex industry technology-transfer agreement. To the amusement of the audience, Zhu said that sex was not on the agenda...
...Iowa State Fair gig 'N SYNC Boy band beats lawsuit filed by puppetmakers who claimed singers had misappropriated identity of artificial, sawdust-filled characters CLINT EASTWOOD Aging actor named to California Parks Commission. First order of business: cut him in half so tourists can count the rings Losers ZHU RONGJI Chinese Premier red-faced over economic forum snafus. To-do list for next Boao summit: fewer boring heads of state, more beer bongs MARLON BRANDO Godfather hit with big palimony suit by his maid. Who else is a guy who lives on his own private South Pacific island going...