Article 3 Where thegoodsorservices to be procured by a centralgovernment agencyreachthe amountstandard for publicbidding, the procurementshall be made in the methodof public bidding.
"The bill also calls for tangible progress in governance - including an independent judiciary, greater accountability by the central government, respect for human rights and civilian control of the levers of power, including the military and intelligence agency."
VOA: standard.2009.05.04
Schools lay in heaps of concrete and rebar, and the Central Propaganda Department, a governmentagency with the power to remove editors and shut down publications, banned coverage of rescue efforts at the schools.
My colleague Andy Greenberg defeated such hearsay just as easily in 2009 when an account claimed to represent the government-run Korean Central News Agency.