Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Sunday, March 18, 2007

A rat poison named after you?

And if you don't pay the bribe, you can try to get revenge by naming a product after the official who had his hand out.

Official escapes rat poison label

"A Chinese official has escaped efforts by a rat poison manufacturer to name its products after him, China's state media reported...

"Xinhua suggested the application [to use the name] could have been caused by a personal dispute between the company - Shenyang Feilong Pharmaceutical Company - and Mr Zheng [the sacked head of the State Food and Drug Administration], who had reportedly ruled against one of [the company's] drugs in 1999.

"Mr Zheng is facing allegations he used his administration's drug approval powers to obtain bribes.

"Last week he was expelled from the Communist Party after a disciplinary committee ruled he should be 'severely punished'."


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