Beijing News commentator Wei Wei welcomes an emergency notice by the Ministry of Civil Affairs calling for transparency and social supervision over charity donations, but says far more needs to be done to allay public fears that funds may be embezzled.

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In response to the ministry's mishandling of the banking crisis, a decision has already been made to move supervision of banks and securities firms to a new independent body, which will probably start work in July 1998.

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The JSJ website is developed by the Division of Supervision and Management of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchange of the Chinese Ministry of Education to release information related to cross-border higher education in China.

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This week the Financial Supervision Agency took over the job of supervising the country's banks from the Finance Ministry's banking bureau.

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