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Social unrest on the rise

BEIJING - Social unrest is on the rise in China, according to an analysis by a Chinese think-tank.    (BBC)

 

Cost of 'integrity'

SHANGHAI - A British environmental consulting company which lists “integrity” among its corporate values bribed a Chinese official with £15,000 to win contracts, according to official reports of a court case in Shanghai. Environmental Resources Management (ERM) is said to have paid off an influential bureaucrat in the city’s environmental protection office who is now on trial.  (Times online)

 

Human trafficking gangs

BEIJING - Chinese police have freed 3,455 children and 7,365 women in nearly nine months since a campaign against human trafficking was launched in early April last year, an official from the Ministry of Public Security said Friday.  The police broke up 1,684 criminal gangs in the process as of Dec. 28.   (Xinhua)

 

'Black jails'

BEIJING - Chinese state agents regularly abduct citizens and detain them for days or months in secret, illegal "black jails", subjecting them to physical and psychological abuses, (AFP)  REPORT:  An alleyway in Hell

 

Domain of the State: Part 2

BEIJING - Document leaked out in August indicate that family planning measures in China are far from voluntary.  (Epoch Times)   PREVIOUS:  Domain of the State: Part 1   One-child policy   China steps back from one child policy

 

$3.94B in embezzled funds recovered

BEIJING - China's National Audit Office (NAO) said it had recovered 26.77B yuan ($3.94B) of fund, which was found embezzled in 2007, by the end of October last year.  (Xinhua)

 

Debtors’ information released

BEIJING - China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) launched an online blacklist of about 6 million people and organizations that have failed to fulfill court orders.  The publication of the names is aimed at pressuring those who refuse to meet their legal obligations and enhance a sound commercial system, according to the official SPC website.   (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)  

 

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

 

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

Pyramid sales crackdown

BEIJING - China's Ministry of Public Security announced it has cracked down on more than 3,000 gangs involved in pyramid sales schemes in a one hundred day campaign ending Oct. 20. (Xinhua)   RELATED:  4.65M computers in Internet cafes being watch for illegal online games

 

China's top 10 toppled executives 2009

BEIJING - With great power comes at least some responsibility. But not everyone with great power turns out a responsible person. Some tend to abuse whatever power they have in their executive positions. (China View)   RELATED:  Lawmaker, tycoon stand trial

 

Stampede

XIANGXIANG - Eight teenagers were confirmed dead and 26 others injured in a stampede at a central China school Monday night, local authorities said early Tuesday.  (Xinhua)   MORE:  Students killed in stampede

 

Fake invoices

BEIJING - Chinese police have detained 5,134 people in a 10-month national campaign against invoice fraud.  (Xinhua)

 

Police detain 1,400 people in telephone scams

BEIJING - Chinese police have broken up 229 fraud rings and detained more than 1,400 people allegedly involved in telephone scams.  .  (Xinhua)  

 

Chinese company, exec indicted

WASHINGTON - The US government slapped sanctions on a Chinese metals company and six Iranian companies suspected of collaborating on a scheme to transfer missile and nuclear technology from China to Iran.   (Reuters)

 

Pyramid scheme

BEIJING - The accused, who all worked for the Yilin Wood Company, were alleged to have defrauded more than 22,000 investors of 1.68B yuan ($246M) by promising high returns on sales of forestry plantations.  (Xinhua)

 

Drug crime increase

BEIJING - China's drug enforcement authorities saw an increase in drug-related crimes last year with about 73,000 people arrested in more than 62,000 cases. (Xinhua)  PREVIOUS:  Illegal drug trade in China

 

EU awards rights prize

BRUSSELS - The European Parliament has awarded a prestigious rights prize to jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia on the eve of a key Beijing summit and despite pressure from Beijing not to honour him.   (AFP)   MORE:  China voices strong dissatisfaction to EU's award to criminal    A fitting honour   Sakharov Prize 2008   Sakharov Prize

 

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)

 

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's war on drugs

BEIJING - China seized 91,000 criminal suspects and confiscated 28.8 tonnes of drugs in 2009 as the country's war on drugs intensified.    (Xinhua) 

25 sentenced to death

China executes British man

7 executed

Killing spree

Death sentences

75 jailed for gang crimes

Abolishment of shooting execution

China defends execution

British anger at China execution

China defiant in face of criticism

18 jailed

'Godmother' gets 18 years

'Godmother' jailed

Chinese Mafia roundup nets alleged godmother

Mob trials transfix China

Corruption trials exposes capital of graft

2nd OC trial starts   OC trials start

Fake invoice crackdown

Crime blitz nets 999

Sweep smashes 1,300 gangs

Mob trials transfix China

China executes 4 drug makers in crackdown

New limits on death penalty

34 sentenced in mob trial  

3 get death penalty for trafficking of women

Gang sentenced

Death sentence

Billionaire in court for murder

21 sentenced

3 sentenced to death in gang trial

Top 10 crackdowns in China 2009

Death penalty for gang crimes

'Living Buddha' jailed

Securities trader executed

5 sentenced to death

China nets 982 human trafficking rings

Execution  

Gang leader gets 20 years

6 sentenced to death

Courts convict

Police bust over 400 criminal gangs

Nearly 1,500 suspects seized

China seizes 5.48M illegal publications

'e-crime' gangs target older women

Bribery pervades list of wealthiest

Gangs of Beijing

74 convicted

Next gang trial starts

   

Bad U of C

SHANGHAI - China has made a habit recently of "punishing" many of the people, institutions and nations that cross it on the Tibet issue, and the University of Calgary appears to be the latest victim.  Without fanfare, the University of Calgary was dropped in December from the Chinese Ministry of Education's list of recommended universities for Chinese students going abroad to study.    (Calgary Herald)

China reiterates opposition against planned Obama-Dalai meeting

China warns, again

China warns US of detrimental effect of meeting

US companies will face Chinese sanctions

China hits back

China to halt military exchanges, punish US companies

Dalai Lama

   

11 years for subversion

BEIJING - Leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has been jailed for 11 years for "inciting subversion of state power", after a trial condemned in the West. The trial, from which Western diplomats and journalists were barred, followed Mr Liu's co-authorship of a document last year urging political reform. (BBC)

Liu Xiaobo  

Case reveals a more assertive China

CCP's Christmas present

Trial today, prison tomorrow

Criticism 'gross intrusion into China's judicial affairs'

Travesty of justice

Charter 08

Charter 08 petition: complete translated text

Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

   

Rio spied for 6 years: China

BEIJING - China accused Rio Tinto of stripping $123B from the country through a six-year program of commercial espionage, as it signalled it was broadening its spy blitz beyond the four mining employees detained in Shanghai.  (SMH)  

Commercial solution - kidnapping

Spying cost steelmakers $102B

Why China detains Rio's mining executives

China accuses Rio Tinto of espionage

Stern Hu

China spends $1.74B on Teck

Protocol amending agreement between Canada and China on maritime transport  .pdf

Teck clinches deals on BC coal shipments

China's investment in Canada

Canada Port Authorities

Ridley Terminals chief is fired

Letter to Merrifield from Veniez

National Press Gallery admonishes China Business Lobby

'Canada-China relations improving, growing'

Coal in Canada

China iron probe widens

Import licenses may be cancelled

Beijing accuses Rio of spying

Looming panic for iron ore by China’s steelmakers

Rio Tinto

   

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

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

   

20M lose their jobs

BEIJING -  About 20 million out of China's total estimated 130 million migrant workers - whose cheap labor underpins China's manufacturing sector - have been forced to return to rural areas because of lack of work, according to a survey conducted by the Agriculture Ministry that was cited at a briefing. 

20M jobless migrant workers return home

Avoid involving police in rural social unrest

China fears unrest from unemployed workers

Soaring job losses

Painful New Year

   

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

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

   

China denies Google hacking attacks

BEIJING - China denied involvement in Internet attacks and defended its online restrictions as lawful Monday after the US urged Beijing to investigate a computer attack against search engine giant Google.  (AP)  

Google vs Beijing

Google challenges China

Google's about turn in China

China seeks information on Google intentions

15 years

PLA officers urge economic punch against US

Don't bet on it

Internet censorship in China 

IOC rebuts censorship deal accusations

Jacques Rogge

International Olympic Committee

IOC admits to censorship deal

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

Censorship ok but hey no drugs

'Retrievers'

China pulls plug on hacker website

China seizes leading hacker training website

Hacker training business shut down

China media censored

Censor closes 'copyright problem' websites   SARFT

Bad web, 'not in line with relevant laws'

Cyber censors on information crackdown

Namibia bribe claim

EU probes Chinese 'soft loans' ploy

Court orders freeze on property of fraud suspects

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'

Olympic Greed

Tanks watch over media centre

No surface-to-air missile launchers for 2010

Futuristic police state unveiled

A guide to China's labor camps

AI: Human rights in China

China defends human rights record

Reporters without borders

Beijing stretched to bursting point

Rings of gold

Beijing Olympics

Green Dam delay

Pressure brings delay

Who framed Google China

Internet censorship: who controls what

Filter software 'not compulsory'

Internet censorship  

China cracks down on 'vulgar' websites

Hiding in plain site

China to censor text messages

Tech firms help governments censor Internet

Open Net Initiative

China clings to control  .pdf  

China to ensure media freedom during Olympics

Safe, peaceful Olympics

China warns of hijack threat

Bad Google

Unique protest

Green Dam Escort

China orders Google to restrict searches

Updated analysis of Green Dam censorware system

Green Dam Youth Escort

Internet changes political landscape

Web sites move to apologize

Stories China's media could not write

China raises the banning bar

China enhances censorship

China launches crackdown

   

5 more sentenced to death

URUMQI - A court in China's Xinjiang region has sentenced a further five people to death for their role in July's deadly ethnic riots.  The sentences bring the number of people condemned to die over the riots to a total of 22.  (BBC) 

3 more sentenced to death

5 more sentenced to death

Death sentences over riots

Punishment for rumours

Chinese leaders

Prosecutor ready to issue warrants

5 militants shot

Suspects in Xinjiang trained for 'holy war'

Police attacked

Compensation figures released

New 'official' riot numbers

2009 Urumqi riots

21 suspects prosecuted

Police detain 'terror gang'

Police capture terror gang

Suspects sentenced

Police capture 75 suspects in syringe attacks

'Needle' riots

5 dead in protests

Al Qaida wing threatens China

China orders Australian film-makers to drop Uighur documentary

Police detain 82 suspected terrorists

2008 Kashgar attack

China executes two Muslims

2 executed for terrorist attack

Terrorist plot suspected in attack in west China's Xinjiang

'Olympic terror groups' smashed

   

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

   

All-out effort to combat drought

BEIJING - Lack of rainfall has led to severe drought in northern China, leaving about 141M mu (9.3M hectares) wheat or 43% of the country's total affected.  (Xinhua) 

China declares drought emergency

China turns to British charities to plug gaps left by CCP

Relief Web

   

Earthquake may have been man made

An earthquake that killed at least 80,000 people in Sichuan last year may have been triggered by an enormous dam just miles from the epicentre.  The 511ft-high Zipingpu dam holds 315 million tonnes of water and lies just 550 yards from the fault line, and three miles from the epicentre, of the Sichuan earthquake.    (Telegraph UK)

End negative quake coverage

Financial gap for reconstruction

Unrest steals spotlight

Hundreds arrested for rioting

Stability drive after riot

Chinese riots over girl's death

School building safety program

No evidence that negligence caused schools to collapse

5,335 students dead or missing

Chinese reveal child quake toll

Death roll remains at 68,712

Collapse of ‘tofu-dregs’ schoolhouses

Schools were shoddily built

China admits quake school defects

46 million homeless

Human Rights attorney arrested

Earthquake jolts China

2008 Sichuan earthquake

After the quake

   

Babies stolen for foreign adoption

Since the early 1990s, more than 80,000 Chinese children have been adopted abroad, the majority to the US.  The conventional wisdom is that the babies, mostly girls, were abandoned by their parents because of the traditional preference for boys and China's restrictions on family size.  But some parents are beginning to come forward to tell harrowing stories of babies who were taken away by coercion, fraud or kidnapping - sometimes by government officials who covered their tracks by pretending that the babies had been abandoned.  (LA Times) 

Police find child slaves

Children 'sold like cabbages'

167 children rescued

Child laborers in Guangdong

Vietnamese doctors sold babies for overseas adoptions

   

Anger rises as economy falls

BEIJING - It is the conventional wisdom that Communist Party rule has survived into the 21st century because of the nation's extraordinary economic growth. China watchers often speak of an implicit bargain between the people and the party: Give up demands for democracy and free speech and we'll make you rich.  (Los Angeles Times)

Police detain protesters

Petitioners 'abducted'

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

Suspended death penalty for bribes

PetroChina becomes world's biggest company

PetroChina

US-China Economic and Security Review Commission

   

China's surveillance network

A Chinese police chief has said he uses more than 12,000 spies to inform on a remote county of just 400,000 people, an admission that lays bare the enormous scale of China's surveillance network.  (Telegraph UK) 

DSD document part 1   DSD part 2   DSD part 3  

Spy seeks asylum

Spies 'infiltrated US power grid'

US electrical grid penetrated

Canada developing strategy to protect against foreign hackers

Warning on growing Chinese espionage

China's hackers stealing US defence secrets

Espionage in Canada

Guilty plea

Physicist pleads guilty

USDOJ press release

Spy jailed

China bugs and burgles Britain

Is China's attack on web porn about stifling freedom?

Corrupt officials pocket $50B

106,626 officials punished in first 11 months of 2009

Corruption up     Chinese yuan

Corruption of China's SOE executives

Corruption hurts China's international image

Crimes rising among Chinese business elite  

Officials waste half their budget

Ho vows to harshly punish officials

China denies spying

'World's biggest cyber spy network'

Spy chiefs fear Chinese cyber attack

China's global cyber-espionage network

Canadian researchers uncover cyber espionage network

Tracking GhostNet: Investigating a Cyber Espionage Network

Spy cases

Chinese spying on Canberra

Australian intelligence

Hope royal commission

China denies trying to obtain US space tech

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

Chinese government at the center of five cyber attack claims

US arrests 4 'Chinese spies'

Chinese 'honeytrap'

Canadian sentenced for espionage

Jailed for theft of US secrets

Spy 'slept' in US for 2 decades

GhostNet      The GhostNet

Has China virtually won?

Widening the door for PRC spying

Psiphon

Cyber espionage targets contractors

Cyber warfare a growing threat

Cyberthieves are hiring

Beijing fires laser to disable US satellites

China targets America's "Acupuncture points"

Official charged with spying

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

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

China's cyber-militia

Chinese woman gets 18 months

Chinese spies arrested

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

Canada sends Chinese official home

China denies spying report

Chinese-born engineer convicted in secrets case

Engineer was Chinese spy for 20 years

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

Canadian connection in spy plot

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 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

China's CNPC signs agreement with SK province

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

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

Australia steps up anti-spy monitoring of Chinese

Sources and Techniques of Obtaining National Defence Science and Technology Intelligence

   

China readies military space station

BEIJING - China is aggressively accelerating the pace of its manned space program by developing a 17,000 lb. man-tended military space laboratory planned for launch by late 2010. The mission will coincide with a halt in US manned flight with phase-out of the shuttle.  The project is being led by the General Armaments Department of the People's Liberation Army.  China is openly acknowledging that the new Tiangong outpost will involve military space operations and technology development.  (Spaceflight Now)  

Space module to be launched in 2010

China's defense budget to grow 14.9% in 2009

China trying to disrupt US military advantages

China expresses 'resolute opposition' to US military report

US in 'no position' to query China's military spending

China Military   People's Liberation Army

China 'to flex military might abroad'

Military balance 2009  

China to boost military spending by 17.8%

China Military Power Report 2009   .pdf 

 

 

CBC to air revised documentary

TORONTO - CBC-TV will air a documentary chronicling the persecution of the Falun Gong movement by the Chinese government soon, with minor changes approved by its producer.  The documentary - set to air earlier this week - was postponed amid fears complaints by Chinese officials had persuaded the broadcaster to pull it from the lineup.    (Toronto Star) 

Beyond the Red Wall

CBC softpedals China's 'cult of evil'

Producer says edited documentary 'diluted'

CBC a division of CCTV

CBC pulls documentary after pressure from Chinese

CBC pulls documentary on China

   

Chinese organ harvesting

 

 

 

Death row provides most organ donors

Organ trafficking stirs concern

China's gruesome organ harvest

China buffs image

Police witness tells of organ harvesting deals

Doctor reveals process of CCP's organ harvesting 

China's cruelty

Brian McAdam: Speech on extermination camp

Israel arrests men who mediated China organ transplants

Hospitals do not accept donated organs

Organ harvesting of prisoners

China launches organ donation system

Chinese official served lawsuit

Organ Harvesting in China's labor camps

2006 report: China economic security review commission

China official admits to torture

China officially admits basis of organ trafficking

UN Committee Against Torture

UN human rights 'peer review' turns into Beijing love-in

China's dirty little secret

CCP bribes Japanese Officials with Chinese organs

Innocent man who made China rethink death penalty

AI: Death sentences and executions in 2005

Chinese ambassador says Harper is condescending

PM snipes at Liberals over China

Chinese embassy tried to silence TV network

China tried to halt Falun Gong TV in Canada

Canada scolded by France, EU

Harper won't appease China on human rights

PM's right to harp on China

Harper tackles China

Proud moment

Capital punishment in the People Republic of China

China to tighten organ transplant rules

Members of crime organizations arrested

New regulations expose organ removal

China introduces new organ transplant rules

Investigative report on harvesting organ

For sale: $25K for a liver

China harvesting inmates' organs

Illegal kidney transplant in mainland hospital

Personal experience in organ extraction

Horrors inside Sujiatun Concentration Camp

China asks Ottawa to reject claimant

Wife of Chinese diplomat defects

Illegal Organ harvesting common in China

All at Sujiatun are Falun Gong practitioners

Living people's organs used in transplant surgeries

New details of China's death camp emerge

New evidence of China organ harvesting revealed

Making sense of a new form of evil

Organs for sale

Report of organ harvesting of Falun Gong in China

Canadians buy organs culled in executions

The cost of an organ transplantation

Statement of Jiyan Zhang

No more gambling on NK

China 'regrets' US ruling on bank

DPRK money trail leads to Macau, and others

Canada’s contribution to N Korea missile crisis

N Korea fires 7th missile amid global furor

Asian markets fall after N Korea missiles

Pyongyang's madman

US firm supplied nuke black market: diplomat

China admits to sale of organs from prisoners

China's transplants come from prisoner's organs

China bans sales of human transplant organs

The new China syndrome

Going public about organ-harvesting in China

Beijing condemns 'anti-China' Falun Gong 'cult'

About face

China kills Falun Gong members for organs

Report backs Chinese organ harvesting claims

Khan-duh fallout: Canada's nuclear façade

International narcotics control strategy report:

US financial sanctions seem to be hitting hard

Cash for Kim

UN office shuts down

North Korea suspected of using UN 'as an ATM'

   

Trinkets loaded with toxic metal

LOS ANGELES - Barred from using lead in children's jewelry because of its toxicity, some Chinese manufacturers have been substituting the more dangerous heavy metal cadmium in sparkling charm bracelets and shiny pendants being sold throughout the US.  (AP)  

Wal-Mart pulls suspect items

Contaminated milk resurfaces

Tainted milk fears resurface  

Dozens charged in 'cover-up'

Bar raised for 'iron rice bowl' civil service jobs

Chemical plant blast

Coal mine fire leaves 12 dead

Coal mine fire

Death toll rises

15,000 to be moved

Excessive lead levels

121 children with lead poisoning

War is the midwife of the Chinese century

Courts equipped with anti-corruption supervisors

Ho vows to harshly punish officials

Corrupt officials pocket $50B

106,626 officials punished in first 11 months of 2009  

Oil spill

Yellow River

Diesel leak

Diesel spill contaminates Yellow River

Yangtze River drought poses a risk

Mercury poisoning

Battery plant closed

Government tests find lead

5 dead, 6 missing in coal mine

Official sentenced to death

Governor resigns

Meng Xuenong

Wang Jun

China probes child lead poisoning

Smelter to close

Villagers stage lead poisoning protest

Executives admit covering up 14 deaths

Retracing the path

Official vehicles

Death toll falls to 1,892

20 lakes vanish a year

Bribes reported in construction sector

Activist charged

Liu Xiaobo

Death toll from coal mine blast rises to 43

Officials, managers arrested or sacked

13 dead in gold mine fire

China shuts down networking sites

Coal mine blast

Mudslide toll climbs

Death toll at 151

Chinese bankers in lottery loss

Ex-KMT leader acquitted

East China city official indicted for taking bribes

Shanghai boss removed from party

Chen Liangyu

New toxic milk secret

Tainted milk 'kept from public'

Journalist gets 16 years in cover-up

Prison for fatal landslide

Death toil climbs

3 dead in reclamation depot poisoning

'Safe' lead levels aren't

2 sentenced to death

Death toll rises

Death toll reaches 92

Coal mine explosion 

13 years

Jail time part of security crackdown

18 dead in chemical explosion

Official paid murderer to kill successor

6 years in jail

Chinese court sentences 2 to death

Official suspended for asking 'people or party'

Economic woes could trigger major unrest

Wave of unrest in 2009

Possible triggers for unrest

China Begins Trial Over Confiscated Oil Wells

After massacre terror continues

Leader to prisoner

Lawyer who helped poisoned milk victims held

Lawyers warned against tainted milk lawsuits

Scores dead

National auditors express concern

Chinese warming to Russia's frozen east

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Melamine 'widespread' in Chinese food chain

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Health Canada recall

US judge rules against China drug firms

Trigger in heparin deaths confirmed

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Canada recalls made-in-China cookies

Heinz baby food recall

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Health Canada lunches investigation into latest recalled toys

Australia bans China-made toy on toxic drug risk

Lead paint found on Halloween toys

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Chinese chemicals flow unchecked to market

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Toy company boss killed himself

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Chinese made hotel toothpaste recalled

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FDA announces plan to eliminate vitamin companies

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China hospitals using 'fake plasma' drip

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Fake Colgate on U.S. shelves

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Police break up international money-laundering ring

Cover-up of deadly accident

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More than 300 children poisoned by lead

Officials gambled away millions

China's Jianggezhuang submarine base

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Cabinet orders rectification of fund abuses

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China officials 'defect in Paris'

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Chinese officials admit to graft

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Weapons-grade uranium disappear

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China jails blind rights activist for over 4 years

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