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Official who showed up at work in shorts fired

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-09-10 09:57

An official of the shipping administration bureau of Haikou, Hainan province, was fired because he showed up at work wearing a pair of shorts on Monday.

Xu, a deputy section chief of the bureau, was reported by a shipping logistics firm, where the official was on a law-enforcement inspection visit.

The bureau decided to sack Xu in a bid to "raise the bureau's image following a high-level emergency meeting.

(www.hinews.cn)