His book on the subject has just been published in Chinese, with a preface by Lou Jiwei, the vice minister of finance.

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To make the point more directly, the vice-minister of finance attended the bank's policy meeting on January 8th.

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He recently told the press that Sakakibara Eisuke, former vice minister for international affairs at Japan's Ministry of Finance, would make a "splendid" candidate.

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Ehud Olmert, the country's vice prime minister and finance minister and the man who would replace Sharon in the event of his death, was in Haifa in northern Israel, where he was watching a soccer game.

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