Across Asia: Rok
China Daily | Updated: 2010-01-12 07:48
Capital move nixed
Prime Minister Chung Un-chan announced yesterday the government would scrap a controversial project to relocate part of the government out of the capital of Seoul, saying it would cause inefficiency in state affairs and waste taxpayer money.
The project has been a hot-button issue in ROK politics for months, with conservative President Lee Myung-bak seeking to revise his liberal predecessor's plan to move more than half of 15 government ministries to a yet-to-be-built city in central ROK .
(China Daily 01/12/2010 page11)
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