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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
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 |
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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 |
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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 Independent satellite stations to go black NTDTV calls on EutelSat not to yield to CCP's pressure |
Chinese women 'face labour camp' Sites leave little room for protest China 'yet to approve protests' No surface-to-air missile launchers for 2010 Futuristic police state unveiled A guide to China's labor camps China defends human rights record Censorship ok but hey no drugs |
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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 Suspects in Xinjiang trained for 'holy war' |
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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) |
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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) |
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SICHUAN - Chinese police have rescued more than 100 village children sold to work as slave labourers in the booming southern province of Guangdong. (BBC) |
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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's economic muscle 'shrinks' 2005 international comparison program preliminary global report Ageing 'threatens China economy' China National Petroleum Corporation |
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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) |
Isle man gave China stealth tech, feds say Top EU trade official accused of leaking secrets to Chinese 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 |
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US Space Shuttle secrets 'were given to China' 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 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 |
French government falls prey to cyber-attacks China's cyber army is preparing to march Chinese hackers targeted Whitehall Chinese military hacked into Pentagon Canada sends Chinese official home Chinese-born engineer convicted in secrets case Engineers charged with espionage Engineer was Chinese spy for 20 years Canadian connection in spy plot |
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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 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 |
Phoenix TV is a joint venture with News Corp Dalfen: Chretien appointed head of the CRTC China's latest boom industry: spying US charges pair as China spies Three charged in alleged spy plot China broadens espionage operations Harper wants answers over espionage allegations Ex-Lockheed agent pleads guilty to China arms plot Chinese secret agent pleads guilty |
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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 |
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 Spies come in from the cold only to get heat |
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