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China vows to clean up judiciary
BEIJING - China's Chief Justice Wang Shengjun said that
courts will take actions on judicial corruption to prevent abuse of
judicial power after a former vice president of the supreme court was
jailed for life two months ago. The pledge came after
Huang Songyou,
former SPC vice president, was sentenced on Jan. 19 to life imprisonment
for taking bribes and embezzlement. (Xinhua) PREVIOUS:
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China building rule-of-law system
BEIJING - According to the Ministry of Justice, the
country had more than 15,000 law firms, more than 166,000 lawyers, and
more than 220,000 people working in the sector at the end of 2009.
(Xinhua) MORE:
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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:
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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)
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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)
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China attacks US human rights record
SHANGHAI - Not one to turn the other cheek these days,
China issued a report Friday on human rights violations by the US. A
day after the
US Department of State
pointed the finger at China in its annual report on human rights abuses
in 194 countries, Beijing responded in kind, accusing Washington of
"posing as the world judge of human rights again." (CanWest) REPORTS:
Country
reports on human rights practices 2009
Country report 2009: Canada
Human
rights record of the US in 2009
Report on the work of the government
China warming up to
be an Arctic player
BEIJING - China doesn't own
a single centimetre of Arctic coastline, nor does it belong to the
Arctic Council, of which Canada is a member, that addresses Arctic
issues. But that's not expected to keep China from becoming a player in
Arctic affairs. A groundbreaking study says China will seek a say in
setting rules and regulations governing activities in the Arctic, to
protect its national interests. (Toronto Star) REPORT:
China prepares for an ice-free Arctic
PLA officer urges challenging US dominance
Failed states and global instability
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)
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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:
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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:
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