Occasionally, China s government takes action against local officials whose crimes are considered egregious.

In Hong Kong, Zhao s sentence has sparked popular protests outside of government offices and formal objections from local officials.

It can provide opportunities for citizen participation in local decision making, ensure the accountability of local political leaders and government officials, and promote a system of checks and balances among various levels of government.

Government officials

Government officials also need the skill and flexibility to work with local communities, private businesses, international organizations, and potential donors.

Since most government corruption occurs at the county, township and village levels, it usually involves abuses of power by local officials.

Awkward as it may look, Chen asked the Chinese government to investigate the illegal harm local officials had infringed on him.

During July and early August 2009, local officials said the fighters had taken control of more of Saada province from government forces.

Similarly, whereas much autonomy has been extended to local governments in economic and social development, the central government has kept its grip on the direction of policy by maintaining the power to appoint local party and government officials.

The independent expert also met government officials, legislators, members of the judiciary and local authorities to discuss approaches to gang violence and juvenile justice.

The application of ICT in local government operations, for example by establishing electronic public information offices, has enabled local governments policymakers and public officials to better interact with the public, particularly individual citizens.

Critics scoff that local Communist Party officials manipulate these elections.

Implementation of these evolving social goals through local government agencies by specific officials is a daunting task that requires profound changes in roles and performance metrics.

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Xinhua announced that local officials responsible for the violence might be prosecuted.

Local LWV organizations monitor their local government meetings and address local issues.

A truly independent judiciary will take time to establish, but some judges can be appointed and paid by and report to the central government rather than local officials.

We have also decentralized Government to allow local communities to have greater say in the way they are governed and to be able to hold public officials accountable.

This problem will doubtless persist until more local officials are chosen through elections.

The final pillar is the government services supply chain, by which central and local officials affect every link of production, logistics, and financial networks through regulations, taxes, or permits.

Journalists and editors were, in effect, government officials.

It assigns responsibility for local matters to a local government.

The opium fields of wealthy landowners are untouched, because local officials are paid off.

In July, having failed to elicit any government response, Chen began seeking legal aid from prominent lawyers to prepare lawsuits on behalf of the victims, causing alarm among local officials.

Women in local government councils

The Local Government Ordinance, 2001, governs elections to the local bodies.

Government officials cannot be actively involved in political activities.

We had a petition system. It's a remedy outside the judicial system, because the Chinese central government wants to keep amiss, the emperor is good. The old local officials are thugs.

Their crime was to investigate cases of corruption by local government officials that were linked to the deaths of tens of thousands of students in the Sichuan earthquake of May 2008.

Chen had been sentenced to four years and three months in jail because he alienated corrupt local officials. After he served his term, the same officials funneled government funds to hire 200 thugs to punish him further by keeping him confined to his house.

Local authorities are closer to problems than national officials tucked away in a country s capital.

(b) Local officials and local partners were trained to promote the participation of local agencies, networking within or between the project sites, and to better understand rural urban migration issues

1992 Zambia Local Government Elections Commission

Economic reform during the 1980s and the devolution of much central government decision making, combined with the strong interest of local Communist Party officials in enriching themselves, has made it increasingly difficult for the central government to assert its authority.

ASEAN government officials have since met to draft a text.

Borrowing from the IMF may be humiliating for government officials.

The United Nations delegation and local officials supported the creation, jointly by international donors and local stakeholders, of innovative and collaborative approaches to local economic development and community mobilization and empowerment.

Starting this year, all local officials, governors, regents and mayors are directly elected by the people.

The Welsh Local Government Association represents the interests of local authorities in Wales.

But local officials could not have arranged for Karma to be tried in far away Xinjiang, let alone persuade the central government to ban the brothers innocuous book about their love of nature.

Journalist Jenaro Villamil condemned the local government

Botswana held workshops on gender responsive budgeting for senior Government officials.

Local government officials and other important people in Kiel, a city in Schleswig Holstein and a settlement from which the German nationalist party operated, claimed to not know fully what was going on in Copenhagen, and proclaimed a provisional government on March 24.

He says that he was arrested after spreading word about a crime that allegedly involved local officials.

Local Fatah officials want support from their leader, Yassir Arafat, to take firm control of the territory.