Report: Less capital punishment in China
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The number of death sentences meted out by Chinese courts has dropped since legislation was introduced requiring the approval of the country's highest court before anyone is executed, state media said Friday.
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China is to introduce jury trials next year as part of reforms to its legal system, state media reports.
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As learned from the Ministry of Commerce China will honor all of its commitments on key sectors from and after 2005. China will reduce its tariff to 10.1 percent on average in 2005 in line with its promise to the World Trade Organization.
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China considers a new law enabling scientists to report research failures without harming their careers.
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China's ruling Communist Party has offered leniency if corrupt officials confess, state media said on Friday of a problem that has fuelled mounting public discontent.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Yinchuan, Feb.
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The Chinese Government will trim spending next year in an effort to slow economic growth to a more sustainable pace. Vice Finance Minister Lou Jiwei says China will reduce the
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China is relaxing decades-old restrictions on foreign reporters, announcing new regulations Friday that will give foreign media greater freedom to travel and report in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Even as the rules were made public, however, a Chinese court affirmed a prison sentence for a Chinese reporter.
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A day after New Jersey banned executions, newly released figures show that capital punishment dropped this year to a 13-year low.
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China's Ministry of Health issues a statement highlighting the country's new rules on organ transplants.
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The number of people sentenced to death reached a 30-year low in 2003, when the death row population fell for the third year in a row, the government reported Sunday.
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China has executed a 25-year-old university dropout for killing six men as an act of revenge for being raped while drunk. Li Yijiang cut off the penises of his victims aged between 20 and 30 after killing them, the Beijing Youth Daily said yesterday.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Hefei, 24 September: A Chinese local court has sentenced a former county party chief from the eastern province of Anhui to life imprisonment for taking bribes.
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Yicheng's birthrate is lower than China's national average, but without the unpopular population-control policy in place.
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The number of executions in the United States hit a 13-year low in 2007, mostly because of a de facto moratorium on the death penalty prompted by challenges against the use of lethal injection, according to a report by a group that opposes capital punishment.
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China is to make it easier to fight intellectual property right crimes, a move that may ease U.S. concerns over rampant copying of movies, software and other goods that Washington says costs businesses billions of dollars a year.
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Plans to give murderers lighter sentences if they plead guilty have been watered down.