China's state planning commission last week issued rules banning companies whose debt exceeded 90% of assets from issuing bonds.

WSJ: Faith in Bailouts Spurs China

But it is hard to see how arms of the central government, particularly the State Planning Commission and the Ministry of Finance, will resist securing a say in the destiny of many transferred enterprises at least until someone has carried out the giant task of auditing these companies to get the full measure of their mismanagement and value.

ECONOMIST: China

This worries the Chinese: the theme of discrimination dominated a conference held in September by Peng Peiyun, head of the state Family Planning Commission, to ruminate on the imbalance.

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The mayor attributes part of the area's success to cooperation between his office, the Biloxi City Council, the city's Planning Commission, state and U.S. lawmakers and his close relationship with Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour.

CNN: Tale of two cities: Biloxi and New Orleans

State records show that the New York Disaster Preparedness Commission the state's main emergency-planning entity for 35 years had met once during Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tenure and didn't meet at all during the 14 months between Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011 and Sandy.

WSJ: Poor Training Fueled Gas Shortage After Sandy

It seems as if India's influential Planning Commission realised this when it warned that the poor state of the country's economy was being forgotten amid the political crisis being faced by the United Front government.

BBC: South Asia: Rupee down

The American Planning Association's Hawaii chapter gripes that the state's land-use commission spends too much time on individual projects rather than setting broad plans.

ECONOMIST: Planning for change in America's most expensive state