China’s public servants are in no mood to be festive this lunar new year. They dare not take bribes, but that is just the half of it.
Plenty of the more innocent perks of the season have also been quashed: no more taxpayer-funded office feasts or galas; no more lavish new year raffles.
Even the most insignificant treats – from fruit baskets to sunflower seeds, calendars to cooking oil – have been curbed in the name of the new leaner, cleaner, more abstemious China.
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