Chinese bloggers banned from stitching up officials

THE GLORIOUS Communist Party of China has a wonderful method of dealing with blogs that show their officials are living in the lap of luxury while workers live badly.

Party's parliament in eastern Jiangsu province decided that such information is illegal and it will lock up the bloggers who dare to say their officials are corrupt.

This came about after Zhou Jiugeng, the head of a district housing bureau in Jiangsu's capital, Nanjing, was exposed on the web wearing a $14,600-dollar watch and smoking 150-yuan-a-pack cigarettes. The man appears to have been fired for being too rich

Now, anyone who publishes such "private" information now will be fined and could be barred from using the Internet for six months according to a story spotted in the China Daily and regurgitated by AP. µ