Today, each township has hundreds.

A township government in Sichuan Province is being called China s first completely nude government after township officials issued salary and expenditure information online.

The University also owns some property in West Windsor Township.

A bridge and road in Minami Aso township, east of Kumamoto.

Here dinner was served under four tents for all township heads.

An overturned lorry on the way to Reed Lake in Tedim Township.

In response, the Chinese government prohibited township level direct elections earlier this year.

The township magistrate said, Do not give others what you do not want.

Take them to several poor children located in remote areas of his township.

Floodwater submerged the central market of Kangyidaunt Township, Irrawaddy Division on Aug. 12.

It is divided into 1 eup (town), 6 myeon (township) and 11 dong (neighborhood).

The township magistrate asked, Do we use the electricity generated by the nuclear power plants?

A bridge and road destroyed by a landslide in Minami Aso township, east of Kumamoto.

panaclo pointed out that she didn't know about the township in question until bad news arose

Locals travel by boat in Nyaungdon Township, Irrawaddy Division in September after flood waters inundated their homes.

The museum was opened in Katsuyama, a rural township about 600 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, in 2000.

The activist, U Tun Tun Oo, is the leader of the Human Rights Activists Association in Pathein township.

Demand for township elections is strong, but high level Party cadres fear a possible further loss of control if townships go the way of villages in terms of elections. In response, the Chinese government prohibited township level direct elections earlier this year.

A second method has been to actively interfere and encroach upon village government affairs through higher level township officials.

Outsiders may be rejoicing with the news that here a modern township will be built, where people will live happily.

Fancy grew up in a township called Langa, just outside Cape Town, during the height of the struggle against apartheid.

A woman displays her ink stained finger after voting in the 2015 election at Rangoon s Bahan Township, Nov. 8, 2015.

Those are in turn divided into 1570 township level divisions (761 towns, 505 townships, 14 ethnic townships, and 290 subdistricts).

Since most government corruption occurs at the county, township and village levels, it usually involves abuses of power by local officials.

But Baimiao Township is the first governmental unit to post a comprehensive yearly expenditure, thus earning the name completely nude government .

The local influentials tend to be in positions that they got through their local popularity street commissioner, mayor, or township board member.

And Wen has indicated that village elections might be extended to the next highest government level township administrations over the next few years.

My youngest sister and her family used to live very close to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the township of Okuma.

Already, township elections are widely welcomed as a mechanism to stamp out rampant political corruption, as well as reduce conflicts between peasants and the government.

Local farmers protested the reopening of copper mines in Sagaing Division s Salingyi Township on May 5 and demanded compensation from the Chinese company Wanbao Co.

Araki Kazuyuki (63), head of the Oi Township Chamber of Commerce said, This is one small step forward , and expressed his happiness about the restart decision.

No Western trained economist could have envisioned China's household responsibility system or township and village enterprises institutional innovations that lie at the core of the Chinese miracle.

Their basic salary is paid by the central government, but bonuses and extra benefits depend on contributions from the advanced productive forces at the county and township level.

A Burmese policeman on patrol at the Myanmar Bangladesh border fence after militants attacked border police headquarters and checkpoints in northern Arakan State s Maungdaw Township on Oct. 9.

Such reforms can help to ensure that budgetary resources are available at different levels of government (central, provincial, prefectural, county, township, and village), and are commensurate with expenditure responsibilities.

Demand for township elections is strong, but high level Party cadres fear a possible further loss of control if townships go the way of villages in terms of elections.

The government of Baimiao Township in northeastern Sichuan disclosed its proposed 2010 expenditure Mar. 12, along with the salaries of local officials and 2009 expenditure information, reports Southern Weekend.

The township of Tomamae has attempted to capitalize on this gruesome part of its past by creating a bear road and a detailed reconstruction of the bear attack itself.

Occupying more than 1,000 acres of land beside a road in Thanbyuzayat Township, the salt farms of Panga reflect a shimmering white under the tropical sun in Mon State.

Township and village enterprises (TVEs) which are owned by and employ mostly former peasants had to rely on themselves to become the most dynamic and productive sources of China's economic growth.

On 18 January 2012, Suu Kyi formally registered to contest a Pyithu Hluttaw (lower house) seat in the Kawhmu Township constituency in special parliamentary elections to be held on 1 April 2012.

The website of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK), the Capital Development Authority of the Government of Bangladesh, provides details about the Purbachal new town project It is the biggest Planned township in the country.

Three years ago, under the direction of liberal local cadres, the town of Buyan, in Sichuan Province, held the first ever direct election of a township chief, the next level of governance above the village.

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A second method has been to actively interfere and encroach upon village government affairs through higher level township officials. Such strategies complicate rural politics by producing a highly contentious dual power structure that pits party secretaries and village committee chiefs against one another.