As Red Cross Probe Stumbles, Critics See Red

(Beijing) -- Two box lunches -- and nothing more. Yuan Yue says that's what the Red Cross Society of China has frugally handed out so far to each member of a special committee assigned to investigate the charity group's finances.

But critics of the special board called the China Red Cross Society Supervisory Committee, on which Yuan has served since it was formed in December under State Council orders, fear that collusion has infected the oversight process in ways that go far deeper than free meals.