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$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)

 

China Mobile swamp subscribers

BEIJING - Profit-mad branch companies of China's largest mobile phone operator, China Mobile, have sent a huge number of junk commercial ads to their subscribers, swamping them with the useless or even illegal messages.  (CRI)  MORE:  China investigates 76,500 fake food cases in 2008    Athletes 'faked their age'

 

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)

 

Governor resigns

TAIYUAN - Meng Xuenong governor of north China's Shanxi Province, resigned from his post in the wake of the deadly mud-rock flow that had killed 254.   Zhang Jianmin, vice governor of Shanxi was removed from his post at the same session.  The provincial people's congress also appointed Wang Jun as the acting and deputy governor.   (Xinhua)  PREVIOUS: Mudslide toll climbs Death toll at 151

 

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)  

 

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)

 

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) 

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)

 

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

 

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

 

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, 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."   (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

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

   

'World's biggest cyber spy network'

A cyber spy network operated from China hacked into classified documents on government and private computers in 103 countries, internet researchers have revealed.   The spy system, which investigators dubbed GhostNet, compromised 1,295 machines at NATO and foreign affairs ministries, embassies, banks and news organizations across the world, as well as computers used by the Dalai Lama and Tibetan exiles.  (Times online) 

China denies spying

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

GhostNet      The GhostNet

Has China virtually won?

Widening the door for PRC spying

Psiphon

   

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

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

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)  

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

5 militants shot

Suspects in Xinjiang trained for 'holy war'

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

Spies 'infiltrated US power grid'

WASHINGTON - The US government has admitted the nation's power grid is vulnerable to cyber attack, following reports it has been infiltrated by foreign spies.   (BBC)

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

China denies trying to obtain US space tech

Spy jailed

Spy cases

Chinese spying on Canberra

Australian intelligence

Hope royal commission

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

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 arrests 4 'Chinese spies'

China's cyber-militia

Chinese woman gets 18 months

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

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

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

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 

 

 

Quality checks

BEIJING - In 2008, inspection and quarantine departments across the country uncovered $54.3B worth of goods which failed to meet required quality standards, according to the administration. (Xinhua)

Toxic Chinese drywall

America's Watchdog

Toxic drywall pops up in BC

Shanzhai for fun and profit

Chinese “Shanzhai” Brands

'Open secret'

Eggs contaminated

Recall

'Willy Spread' alert

60 more arrested

War is the midwife of the Chinese century

2 sentenced to death

Leader to prisoner

Lawyers warned against tainted milk lawsuits

Retracing the path

Cadbury recalls Chinese chocolate

China stops tainted sweet sales

Melamine use 'rampant' in China

Chinese set levels for milk products

Milk scare 'under control'

53,000 sick    12,892 sick   6,250 sick

PHAC China melamine update

More global recalls

China's political survival

China sets limits on melamine levels

Tainted milk scare goes global

The milk of human cruelty

Melamine 'widespread' in Chinese food chain

Why China's milk industry went sour

Phone alerts buzz as scandal grows

Mr. Brown instant coffee    White Rabbit Creamy Candy

2008 Chinese milk scandal

Health Canada recall

US judge rules against China drug firms

Trigger in heparin deaths confirmed

FDA fails on foreign drug oversight

War is the midwife of the Chinese century

Chinese dietary supplements contain viagra

Gift that keeps on giving

OK OK Kaiser Pretzels

Tainted milk toll estimated at 94,000

Canada recalls made-in-China cookies

Heinz baby food recall

Back to Black

Japan finds second type of pesticide

Health Canada lunches investigation into latest recalled toys

Australia bans China-made toy on toxic drug risk

Lead paint found on Halloween toys

The CCP's way of dealing with illegal manufacturing practices

Buyer beware

Heparin contaminant

Heparin contaminated 'on purpose'

FDA finds contaminant in blood-thinner

China firm cans toxic tinned meat

China being poisoned by its food industry

Chinese chemicals flow unchecked to market

Aqua dots recalled

Toy pulled in US

Toy 'R' Us recalls China made colouring cases

Toys 'R' Us product recalls

China unveils recall systems for unsafe food, toys

Fake diabetic kit alert

Chinese blankets recalled

NZ probes China clothing scare

NZ tests find formaldehyde in Chinese-made clothes

Poison PJs from China

Kids' pencils made in China recalled

China finds poor quality on its store shelves

'Toxic gas from sofas'

Understanding Mattel's Mea Culpa

Mattel recalls 9M more toys

Mattel announces second massive toy recall

Toy company boss killed himself

How helping a friend led to suicide, lost jobs

Fisher-Price toys with lead paint hazard

Chinese made hotel toothpaste recalled

Wider distribution of tainted Chinese toothpaste discovered

China expects to close half of smaller processors

Why all fakes lead to China

Comeback of poisoned pet food

Fish meant for human fed tainted food

China acts on food safety

Chemical commonly added to animal feed

FDA announces plan to eliminate vitamin companies

Fake building material imperils new Chinese railway

Officials warn against buying harmful toothpastes

Health Canada warning   

FDA halts imports of some Chinese seafood

China calls for reason as food safety fears mount

Beijing bans 10 types of drugs

China hospitals using 'fake plasma' drip

Tropical disease threatens Canadian blood supply

Fake Colgate on U.S. shelves

Toothpaste exports latest scare

Lead in paint prompts Thomas the Tank toy recall

Chinese toys, clothes fail safety inspections

Tainted Chinese imports common

Playing fast and loose in China's 'cut-throat capitalism'

Re-use, re-new, re-poison recycle rage

Alarm bells ring over China food imports

FDA: Pet food tainting might be intentional

This little piggy safe to eat

FDA agents raid pet food planet, offices

Scientists track chemical reactions in pet food

How pet food makers get their supplies

FDA bans wheat gluten from Chinese company

FDA: Pet food recall

2007 pet food recall

A costly trade

94 deaths in Panama from tainted medicine

China blames Panama for tainted products

US files piracy complaint against China

China slams US piracy complaint

   

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

   

Banking official sacked for corruption

BEIJING - A senior banker of the state-run China Development Bank (CDB) has been sacked for taking bribes, the Communist Party of China's disciplinary watchdog said.  Wang Yi, vice president of the bank, was removed from his official post and stripped of his CPC membership for "severe violation of disciplines and the law," said the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the ruling party's internal anti-graft body.  Wang, 53, previously served as a vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), China's stock market watchdog.  (Xinhua)

China orders officials not to sightsee aboard on public money

China bans lavish offices

Officials gambled away millions

3 officials sentenced for taking bribes

7 arrested over container fall that killed 11

China officials 'defect in Paris'

Officials fail to return

Beijing Olympic official sacked over corruption

Another secret submarine base

China's Jianggezhuang submarine base

Canada's aid seeded China dam

Supreme Court VP under investigation

China abandons plans for huge dam on Yangtze

Official sacked over irresponsible remark, lavish lifestyle

Auditors find more than $8B misused in 11 months

Corruption taints every facet of life

Cabinet orders rectification of fund abuses

Central bank helps $4.2B money-laundering crackdown

China state media goes global

China submits 2007 military expenditure report to UN

Alleged defrauder repatriated from Canada

China thanks Canada for deporting fraud suspect

Guilty

Suspected bank frauds

Flight of the fugitives

Death penalty

Executives sentenced

China lets condemned prisoners choose needle over bullet 

Anti-graft website crashes

Politburo Standing Committee of the CCP

China unveils future leaders

Xinhua: 17th CPC

17th Communist Party Congress

Communist Party of China (CCP)

New CPC Politburo holds first plenary session

Politics of the of China

Hu Jintao to tackle corruption

Vice mayor given suspended death penalty

Journalists face jail terms for reporting on corruption

China jails ex-Shanghai party chief

Beijing finance chief sacked during inquiry

Chinese officials admit to graft

3 Gorges Dam is an ecological disaster

Three Gorges dam money 'missing'

Three Gorges Dam

Fed arrest two fugitive Chinese bankers

Crackdown on corruption still largely secret

Shanghai scandal 'implicates 50'

Zhang Rongkun indicted in Shanghai

Senior Shanghai official held in scandal

Probe into Shanghai corruption intensifies

Month of corporate hospitality kills Chinese official

Chinese police raid illegal banks

China's warning over graft probe

Corruption 'astonishing'

Corruption threatens future

Democracy in China, but only on TV

Weapons-grade uranium disappear

Regulator bans money for coverage

China asks Canada to extradite banker

Party's over, China tells its corrupt party chiefs

China now weighing the cost of prosperity

Top statistician in China scandal

Shanghai F1 boss 'in graft probe'

Budgetary funds misappropriated

China navy chief sacked for graft

Bankers stashed loot in Vancouver

Chinese bankers, wives indicted

42 Provincial Bank Governors flee China

   

Bad Google

BEIJING - Chinese Internet authorities urged the search engine to carefully follow the country's laws and regulations, take effective technical and management measures to filter pornographic content from its search results and prevent such information from overseas flowing into China.  (Xinhua)

China orders Google to restrict searches

Updated analysis of Green Dam censorware system

Green Dam Youth Escort

Filter software 'not compulsory'

Internet censorship  

China cracks down on 'vulgar' websites

UN Committee Against Torture

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

Hospitals do not accept donated organs

China's dirty little secret

China's gruesome organ harvest

China buffs image

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

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

Members of crime organizations arrested

New regulations expose organ removal

China introduces new organ transplant rules

CCP bribes Japanese Officials with Chinese organs

Innocent man who made China rethink death penalty

China laundering Colombia drug money

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

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

China admits to sale of organs from prisoners

China's transplants come from prisoner's organs

China bans sales of human transplant organs

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

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

Canada-trained nuclear scientists 'defecting' 

Did North Korea steal Canada's secrets?

Canada needs a No-Candu stand

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'

   

6 years in jail

HANGZHOU - A veteran democracy activist in China has been sentenced to six years in jail for helping set up an opposition party, activists and supporters have said.    (BBC)

Economic woes could trigger major unrest

Wave of unrest in 2009

Possible triggers for unrest

Internet changes political landscape

Web sites move to apologize

2 sentenced to death

Chinese court sentences 2 to death

Blackout over new Tibetan monk deaths

Cyber attacks 'came from China

Computers hacked

Center Stage

IMF computer system hacked

Not for publication in Canada

China builds Buddhism academy in Tibet

Eight monks imprisoned for bomb blast

Stories China's media could not write

China raises the banning bar

China enhances censorship

China launches crackdown

China Begins Trial Over Confiscated Oil Wells

After massacre terror continues

UN findings oppose official accounts

Chinese official says fewer than 20 shot

Officials reportedly try to cover up deaths

Who's to blame?

The real threat is China

CCP incites Flushing violence

The censor in the mirror

Jailed for 'subversion'

Breaching Trust    .pdf

Pressures grow on cross-regional reporting

China's Katrina

Chinese toxic spill official dead

China threatens punishment over spill

123 missing in new China mine disaster

Death toll from China coal mine rises to 161

China city gets water but it's not safe to drink

China cuts water to more cites

Cover-up of chemical accident unveiled

China warns Russia of toxic slick

China creates unit to crush poverty protests

Wealth gap threatens stability in China

The truth behind China's craving for companies

China's new authoritarianism

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