Apple Daily says outgoing CPPCC chairman Jia Qinglin's call for upholding the leadership of the Communist Party in his final work report "proves once again that the CPPCC is a flower pot" - an ornamental body of little substance.

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Now this is not Woodward and Bernstein doing Washington Post style reporting checking to see where the flower pot is on a balcony before they meet their Deep Throat source in some parking garage during the Watergate investigation.

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In New Zealand Scion Research works to convert the waste stream from pulp and paper processing into a blend of microbial cell wall debris and plastic called polyhydroxyalkanoate, or PHA. Plant a PHA flower pot into the ground and and it biodegrades.

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Apple Daily, one of Hong Kong's top-selling tabloids and an outspoken critic of the Communist Party, says the new leadership's vow not to copy Western political models shows the NPC is still a Soviet-style "rubber stamp" and the CPPCC is an ornamental but essentially useless "flower pot".

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