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November 01, 2009, 10:00 PM ET
China Replaces Education Minister in Wake of Scandal
China's legislature removed the country's education minister over the weekend, the state-run television station CCTV reports. The executive committee dismissed the minister, Zhou Ji, and replaced him with Yuan Guiren, a former president of Beijing Normal University and a deputy under Mr. Zhou, at a meeting on Saturday. The move comes in the wake of a corruption scandal in Wuhan, where Mr. Zhou once served as mayor, the Associated Press reports.
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