As a developing country, "China has no way of entirely suppressing corruption without sending the whole country into pain and confusion," the editorial stated.
There are still enormous inefficiencies, but crime has been suppressed, corruption has diminished, and the local economy is booming at double-digit rates.
Returning to Madras in 1775 as governor, Pigot tried to suppress widespread corruption in the public service but in so doing created enemies.
Shiny new hospitals, in which the needy receive free treatment, have bolstered a sense of stability and well-being.Where Mr Erdogan's critics see a tyrant (he has muzzled the press, stacked the judiciary and the security services with loyalists and rewritten laws to suppress the corruption probe), his supporters see a steadying hand.
Governments, including those in Egypt and China, fear popular demonstrations and so suppress reporting on corruption and malfeasance that could bring people into the streets.
Outside the cautious world of newspapers and television, social media has become a repository for criticism and, recently, for recordings that some suggest are suppressed evidence of corruption.
The most aggressive use of English law for suppressing information on corruption and international security matters is by plaintiffs from settings where free expression is most limited.
A broadcast by an unnamed army officer accused President Obote and his regime of corruption, suppressing democracy, and failing to maintain law and order.
But the protection bill "is not about suppressing the media or corruption," Siyabonga Cwele, the minister of state security, said through an e-mailed statement from his spokesman, Brian Dube.
Let's fight to make sure our so-called allies in the Middle East — the Saudis and the Egyptians — stop oppressing their own people and suppressing dissent and tolerating corruption and inequality".
