... authority, to conduct performance audits of the government. Significantly, the Court ruled, the “CAG is not a munim [accountant] to go into the balance-sheets. The CAG is a constitutional authority entitled to review and conduct performance audit on revenue allocations . . . and examine matters relating...

..., impeachment, rectification, and auditing."8 It is a completely independent organ of the government, and traditionally so. Throughout the dynasties it was considered as a power apart from the Emperor. This condition arose in the earliest times as a result of the body's right and obligation to criticize...

... ) is seen as preferable to being an outsider ( soto ),” and she concludes by stating that Angel Guts is a “criticism of Japanese society's oppression of woman” (p. 106). This formula is repeated for other “rape-revenge” films such as Freeze Me and Audition , and she concludes the chapter by stating...

..., and the People's Republic from 1949 onward. In formal dance-like lockstep, central and provincial levels of the state alternate between stressing the need for stronger formal systems of control and audit and appealing to the moral norms of local officials; chronically underresourced and ill-supervised local...

.... Section 7. Annual audit. There shall be an annual audit of the books of the Association, the results of which shall be reported at the annual Membership Meeting. The Association may employ an auditor. Section 8. A Nominating Committee of five shall be appointed by the Board of Directors to serve for two...

... by the rules of the system. Mass circulations and the dependence on advertising that usually drives mass circulation have affected the survival of newspapers in Kerala. In 1960, ten Malayalam daily newspapers were members of the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) in Mumbai, the organization...

... the year. Other reports shall be made by the Secretary or Executive Secretary, the editors and committees or agents of the Association. These reports shall be filed with the records of the Association and abstracts entered in the minutes of the annual meeting. Section 7. Annual audit. There shall...

... the Department of Public Revenue became responsible for collecting quotas and for audit. Later provincial military authorities gained in financial power. "The greatest alterations in the administrative system were those which took place in the local administration" (p. 120). These included the new importance...

... late imperial China is well documented. Her chapter on the subjective and lyric voice of the dead in ghostly poetry in particular is excellent, looking at Chinese ghosts as “auditions” as well as apparitions. If writing poetry for living females was an arduous task strongly linked to premature death...

..., as early as page 5, Lo gives us a pretty good idea of what it would not: there would be no tolerance of dissent (instead, there would be “social harmony”). There would be no public government accountability; rather, government agencies would be “monitored internally by the audit commission...

... that Unpretty Rapstar was produced from a male-centered perspective and had the effect of reinforcing the female rappers’ problems. In the concluding chapter, Song briefly mentions the globalizing efforts of Hanguk hip-hop with a discussion of the fifth season of SMTM , which included auditions that took...

... to as a "technical fix." Finally, the treatment of "verification" in the study is confusing. It is reified at times as an end in itself rather than as one party's audit of another's compliance with unilateral or negotiated commitments. Perhaps most confusing of all certainly it would be so to an accountant...

... Society, 1961. An expanded version of an article that appeared in the Journal of the Siam Society (Bangkok), Vol. XLV/i, April 1957. 60. Notes. (paper). Indo-Pacific Exchange Newsletter. National Diet Library, Tokyo. No. 8, September i960. 20. (paper). Aspects of Audit Control. By ASOK CHANDA. New York...

..., compromised regulators, weak judiciaries, and a virtual absence of third party audits; all should have been red flags. But these institutional weaknesses rooted in political systems that lacked accountability did not stymie optimism where East Asia was concerned. As a counterpoint to the region's crisis...

..., and religion. The final section of the book contains several chapters on religion and rights problems in different world regions. These essays, on the clash between secularism and Hindu nationalism in India, on women and Islam, on the resurgence of claims to Orthodox ascendancy in the new Russia, and an audit...

... on the trend toward unaccountable postdemocracy, the innovative practice of jan sunwai , in which government projects are audited through public readings of documents and testimony by the relevant laborers or applicants (pp. 149, 166). Aside from some references to Pakistan and some brief comparisons...

... planning, and the transition from agriculture in the course of economic development. Also collected in this volume is a paper by Jean-Jacques Laffont on regulation and regulatory policy, with special emphasis on auditing procedures, and a paper by Motoshige Itoh and Jun Shibata on the importance of Japan's...

...-Pop Dream project, a pan-Asian audition competition for an idol group. Lee's argument that this issue has to do with “complex tensions concerning inter-Asia politics, the rhetoric of technology and the perceptions of a hierarchically racialized world ordered by the logic of global capitalism...

... and candidate members of the Central Committee and the Central Auditing Committee of the six WPK congresses. Some of the information appears in English for the first time. Suh has also compiled seventeen tables illustrating patterns of continuity and change among party elites. The same type of information...

.... The essay on India (Chap. 10) is actually an audit on the Five-Year Plan at half-way mark, and presents an intriguing basis for contrast with the data on mainland China, presented in the Bulletin of November, 1953. It appears that, although India has laid the foundation for development of industry...