1 | These people said they did not have direct evidence that Mr. Pan was sidelined by rivals. | |
2 | Pan Yue, vice-minister at the environmental protection ministry, has taken personal responsibility for the deterioration of the environment, China Daily cited the Beijing Morning Post as reporting. | |
3 | In a telling twist, the charges against Mr. Pan' s aides involved payments from companies seeking environmental approvals, said people who were told about the investigation. | |
4 | Yue Pan , deputy director of China's State Environmental Protection Administration, sparked debate with his recent essay On Socialist Ecological Civilisation. | |
5 | It has used this month's People's Congress to raise the status of Mr. Pan's agency to a ministry. |