Politics

摘要

The Democratic Party of Japan, which is favourite to win an election on August 30th, produced its manifesto. It calls for a child allowance, higher unemployment benefits, lower road-tolls-and a radical shake-up of the system that gives civil servants huge influence over politicians.rnKyrgyzstan's president, Kur-manbek Bakiev, easily won re-election. Opposition protests were broken up by the police. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe judged the conduct of the poll a disappointment.rnThe vice-president of China's supreme court said the country would reduce death-penalty executions "to an extremely small number". In 2008 China executed more than 1,700 people, or 72% of the world's total.