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Official sentenced to death

CHONGGING - The former transport chief of a poverty-stricken southwest China county was sentenced to death for taking bribes totaling 22.26 million yuan ($3.18M US) from road contractors.   .   (Xinhua)

 

Bank says terrorist ties 'unfounded'

LOS ANGELES - Bank of China Ltd., the country's third-biggest bank, said allegations that it helped Middle Eastern terrorist groups by transferring millions of dollars to Hamas and Islamic Jihad are ``completely unfounded''.   (Bloomberg)

PREVIOUS:  Zahavi v. Bank of China  .pdf

 

China drug supervision officials

BEIJING - China reported 64,000 drug supervision officials working for 2,692 drug regulatory departments by the end of 2007, said a white paper published on Friday by the Information Office of the State Council.  By the end of 2007, there had been more than 97,000 drug safety coordinators and more than 514,000 information specialists in rural areas.  A total of 578,000 stations of rural drug regulatory network had been established, the paper said.  (Xinhua)  

 

Chinese bankers in lottery loss

BEIJING - Two Chinese bank workers have been sentenced to death for stealing nearly $7M from the bank's vault - and losing almost all of it on the lottery.  The theft, from the state-owned Agricultural Bank of China in the northern province of Hebei, is reported to be China's biggest ever. (BBC)   RELATED:  Ex-KMT leader acquitted    East China city official indicted for taking bribes   China wants death penalty for damage to electricity infrastructure    Fake Chinese Communist official arrested

 

Reporter detained for faking story

BEIJING - A freelance reporter for a Beijing television station has been detained for faking a hidden camera report about street vendors who used chemical-soaked cardboard to fill meat buns, local media said Thursday.  (AP)  PREVIOUS:  Behind the hysteria about China's tainted goods

 

More arrests in slave scandal

BEIJING - China announced more arrests and a provincial governor apologized Friday as the government stepped up efforts to try to show it was responding to a growing slave labor scandal.  (AP)  PREVIOUS:   Calls for resignations over China slave scandal   China's child slavery in Brick Factories   Hundreds of brickwork slaves freed in China   China death sentence for killing slave

 

Stolen copper is major SA export

CAPE TOWN - The South African city of Cape Town has launched a major crackdown on people who steal copper electricity wires.   The copper is sold to scrapyards, which then export it to China.   Last year, $10m-worth of copper was sold - the city's second biggest export to China after fruit - even though the region has no natural copper reserves.  (BBC)

China kicks out member of top legislature

BEIJING - Song Dexi, former director of Urumqi Railway Bureau, was kicked out of the legislature because he was suspected of committing serious crimes, the fourth session of the 11th NPC Standing Committee revealed on Friday as it closed.   (Xinhua)

PREVIOUS:  Mismanaged funds   Auditors find 117 cases of official embezzlement   Tougher penalties on officials 'unexplained assets'

 

China controlling more of US economy

NEW YORK - China has been making increasingly aggressive investments in some of the world's most prestigious financial companies in recent months - most of them American.  (AP)  COMMENT:   Greed stampede

 

Customs brokers charged in counterfeit scheme

NEW YORK - Private brokers licensed by the government to clear commercial imports participated in a scheme to flood the U.S. market with fake Nike sneakers, Rolex watches and other Chinese-made counterfeit products, authorities said.  (AP)

 

Top court overturns 15% of death sentences

BEIJING - The Supreme People's Court (SPC) overturned about 15% of the death sentences handed down by high courts in the first half of this year, a senior court official said on Thursday.   (Xinhau)   PREVIOUS:  Capital punishment in China

 

Misconduct found at 3 Chinese banks

BEIJING - Auditors have found misconduct affecting 15.5 billion yuan, or $2 billion, at three of China's biggest banks, the country's auditor general reported.  (AP)   MORE:  Audit says $1.9B missing   Sinopec Chief abruptly resigns amid corruption rumors   China banks hit for illicit loans

 

Shanghai boss removed from party

BEIJING - The former Communist Party leader of Shanghai has been expelled from the party, state media reports.  Chen Liangyu was also sacked from all his government positions, according to state television.  .  (BBC) 

 

China, Russia called lax on piracy

GENEVA - International corporate giants accused China and Russia yesterday of being the worst countries for business piracy and counterfeiting "by a large margin."  Some two-thirds of all counterfeit goods seized in the European Union originate in China, said a report by the group Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy.    (Reuters)  MORE:  Global survey on counterfeiting and piracy   China breaks up piracy ring   China busts fake drugs gang

 

China-Canada trade pattern shifting

OTTAWA - China's rapid industrialization has seen its appetite for Canadian imports shift to wood, metals and other raw materials from wheat, which dominated the roster a decade ago.  (CTV)   REPORT:  Canada's trade with China: 1997 - 2006   Non-renewable resources

   

China executes ex-drug chief

BEIJING - China executed a former drug and food safety chief on Tuesday for corruption in an unusually swift sentence which will serve as a warning after a series of health scandals stained the "made in China" brand.  (Reuters)   PREVIOUS:  Another official gets death sentence

China and India 'top bribe list'

Firms from China and India are most willing to pay bribes abroad to do business, a survey suggests.  Anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI) put the two countries at the top of its Bribe Payers' Index of 30 exporting nations.   (BBC)   MORE:  Transparency International 2007

   

IOC rebuts censorship deal accusations

BEIJING - The Olympic president Jacques Rogge has rebutted accusations that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) agreed to Chinese internet censorship during the coming Games. (Telegraph UK)

International Olympic Committee

IOC admits to censorship deal

IOC agreed to censorship

Web censorship at Olympics

Independent satellite stations to go black

NTDTV calls on EutelSat not to yield to CCP's pressure

Human rights record worsening

Leaked documents

Olympic Greed

China warns of hijack threat

Beijing stretched to bursting point

Rings of gold

Beijing Olympics

Re-education for protest

'Re-education through labour'

Chinese women 'face labour camp'

Sites leave little room for protest

Protest applications

China 'yet to approve protests'

Tanks watch over media centre

No surface-to-air missile launchers for 2010

Futuristic police state unveiled

Harmony and the dream

A guide to China's labor camps

AI: Human rights in China

China defends human rights record

Reporters without borders

Censorship ok but hey no drugs

'Retrievers'

China to ensure media freedom during Olympics

Safe, peaceful Olympics

   

Police detain 82 suspected terrorists

URUMQI - Chinese police cracked five terrorism groups in the country's northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the first half of 2008, detaining 82 suspected terrorists who allegedly plotted sabotage against the Beijing Olympics, an official said.   (Xinhua)  

'Olympic terror groups' smashed

5 militants shot

Suspects in Xinjiang trained for 'holy war'

Blackout over new Tibetan monk deaths

Police attacked

   

China told Mugabe 'to behave'

HARARE - Beijing put pressure on Robert Mugabe to begin talks because of fears that the continuing crisis in Zimbabwe risked overshadowing the Olympics, according to government and diplomatic sources.   (Telegraph UK)

Mugabe's secret flights

Veto just part of business

Russia, China veto sanctions

Presidential election 2008

   

Grieving parents protest

BEIJING - Hundreds of parents protesting shoddy school construction that they say caused the deaths of their children in the May earthquake were harassed by riot police on Tuesday and criticized by local government officials, the parents said on Wednesday. Chinese news organizations have also been told by the central government not to report on the schools and journalists are barred from approaching the sites of the collapses.  (IHT)

End negative quake coverage

46 million homeless

Voice silenced

Human Rights attorney arrested

Earthquake jolts China

2008 Sichuan earthquake

After the quake

Unrest steals spotlight

Hundreds arrested for rioting

Stability drive after riot

Chinese riots over girl's death

   

Police find child slaves

SICHUAN - Chinese police have rescued more than 100 village children sold to work as slave labourers in the booming southern province of Guangdong.    (BBC) 

Children 'sold like cabbages'

167 children rescued

Child laborers in Guangdong

   

PetroChina becomes world's biggest company

BEIJING - PetroChina, Asia's largest oil and gas producer, becomes the world's first company worth more than $1 trillion, after going public.     (NPR)

US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

China emerges as global consumer   Earth Policy Institute

China plays the Global Stock Market

China's economic muscle 'shrinks'

2005 international comparison program preliminary global report

Ageing 'threatens China economy'

'Adroit' China plays dollar

China National Petroleum Corporation

China threatens 'nuclear option' of dollar sales

China launches $200B government investment fund  

   

Spy jailed

WASHINGTON - Tai Shen Kuo, a furniture salesman from New Orleans, used gifts and job promises to convince a former Pentagon analyst to hand over secret documents.  He then passed the files, which mainly concerned US sales to Taiwan and military communications, to Beijing.  (BBC) 

Spy cases

Chinese woman gets 18 months

Chinese spying on Canberra

Australian intelligence

Hope royal commission

Spy cases raise concern

Chinese spies arrested

US arrests 4 'Chinese spies'

China's cyber-militia

Unlikely scene of spy case

Noshir Gowadia

Isle man gave China stealth tech, feds say

Noshir Gowadia Case

Top EU trade official accused of leaking secrets to Chinese

Chinese 'honeytrap'

Canadian sentenced for espionage

Jailed for theft of US secrets

Spy 'slept' in US for 2 decades

China's spies, unfair policies threaten economy

US - China economic & security review commission 2007 report

Hackers launch major attack on US military Labs

Beijing claims computers hacked

Russian convicted of leaking technology to China

Chinese government at the center of five cyber attack claims

US Space Shuttle secrets 'were given to China'

Victims of espionage attacks

MI5 alert on China's spy threat

World faces "cyber cold war" threat

Exposed cyber attacks could be the tip of the iceberg

NZ hit by foreign computer hacking

CCP student spies

Spies 'stole secrets' to arm Chinese military

Embassy behind Student Associations

Former student president speaks about consulate control

Canadian group denies being front for Chinese Regime

Ex-envoy warns of Chinese spies

China's spying overwhelms US counterintelligence

Chi Mak, Tai Wang Mak spy case

Chinese spies difficult to contain

French government falls prey to cyber-attacks

Invisible arms race

China's cyber army is preparing to march

Chinese hackers targeted Whitehall

Chinese military hacked into Pentagon

Cyber attack linked to China

Canada sends Chinese official home

China denies spying report

Chinese-born engineer convicted in secrets case

Engineers charged with espionage

Engineer was Chinese spy for 20 years

Canadian connection in spy plot

Chinese media wars

Coming to Canada: China Spy TV?

Is TV network implicated in spying?     Phoenix TV

Chinese diplomat booted out for spying

Ottawa warned economic spying will ramp up in Canada

Report says expatriates in Canada pressured to spy

Friends rallying to defend DIA spy

Ex-DIA analyst admits passing secrets

Chinese spies in US

Defense contractor held in spy case

Making waves, carefully, on the air in China

Documents support China spy allegations

China curbs foreign TV channels

Beijing's United Front Strategy in Hong Kong

Unrestricted Warfare

CCP's efforts to control overseas Chinese

Canadian Media Ownership

Chinese defector warns Canadians of Beijing's spys

Phoenix TV is a joint venture with News Corp

Dalfen: Chretien appointed head of the CRTC

China's latest boom industry: spying

US charges arms dealer

US charges pair as China spies

Three charged in alleged spy plot

United Microelectronics Corp

High tech hunger

Computer chip execs charged

China broadens espionage operations

Harper wants answers over espionage allegations

Ex-Lockheed agent pleads guilty to China arms plot

Chinese secret agent pleads guilty

Spy case patterns the Chinese style of espionage

China's CNPC signs agreement with SK province

China spy report focuses on Vancouver appeal

Chinese spies targeted Toronto woman

CCP spy network runs deep in the US

Chinese spies cost Canada billions: Harper

China has 1,000 spies in Canada

China envoy alleges spy network

China defector accuses Australia

Chinese diplomat seeking asylum

Chinese defector details country's espionage agenda

Aspects of the CCP's espionage

Refugee process abused by criminals

3500 Chinese spy companies identified

In Canada, Spies R Us

China spying on us: CSIS

FBI spy chief asks private sector for help

FBI cracks down on China's army of spies

FBI sees big threat from Chinese spies

CCP spy recruitment tactics exposed

Massive Chinese spy network penetrates Canada

China aims spy network at secrets in Europe

High-profile Chinese torture victim dies

Defecting Chinese Agent tells of spy network

Defectors say China running 1,000 spies in Canada

Defectors expose espionage

Spies come in from the cold only to get heat

The Wild West of American intelligence

Bush sanctions China - Espionage from Beijing