Ministry admitserrors in report

BEIJING - The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has admitted that "technical errors" were the cause of mistakes in its online 2010 annual report on information publicity.

The report, which was posted to the ministry's official website on Monday, inaccurately said that "all statistics in this report were calculated from Jan 1, 2010, to Dec 31, 2009", that "in 2009, the ministry received 46 applications from the public asking for information" and that "the report was released on March 31, 2010", the Southern Metropolis Daily reported.

Other websites that had links to the ministry's 2009 report revealed the release date of that report was also on March 31, 2010.