China calls official's execution a warning siren
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China on Wednesday hailed the swift execution of the nation's former drug safety chief as a warning to other corrupt officials while detailing a web of graft that thrived for years without punishment.
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China's food safety crisis has tarnished its reputation abroad and threatens to spur social unrest at home, where more health scares are expected, a top official was quoted as saying Monday.
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A government source told Reuters he expected &quot;huge&quot; casualties from Friday&#39;s explosion, adding police officers were among the dead.
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A death sentence handed to a Tibetan  monk over a spate of bombings could be commuted to life in  jail, the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
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China will expand the use of lethal injections to replace execution by gunshot, state media said on Thursday of a country which kills more convicts than anywhere else.
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Chinese officials warn urgent action is needed to avoid environmental catastrophe over the Three Gorges Dam.
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An ageing population could damage the China's supply of cheap labour, the authorities warn.
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China's top quality control official accused foreign media of raising unnecessary alarm about the safety of the country's food and drug exports, complaining in particular about U.S. reports.
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China prosecuted nearly one million people last year and sent more people to jail than in 2005, officials said on Tuesday, and they vowed to keep up the fight on crime while promising to limit executions.
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Defense attorneys and death penalty opponents were outraged Thursday over an execution in which the condemned man took more than half an hour to die, needed a rare second dose of lethal chemicals, and appeared to grimace in his final moments.
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China's top safety official has blasted "unscrupulous" mine owners and local officials after a string of accidents killed 88 miners in recent days, state media said Tuesday.
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Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party leader who was deposed after the 1989 pro-democracy protests, is in a deep coma and may be close to death, a human rights activist said Saturday.
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BEIJING, Feb. 26 -- Communist Party propaganda chiefs have issued a stern new warning to China's broadcast executives, saying news reports and entertainment should promote socialist loyalty and soothe tensions as the country enters a sensitive political season.
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China has executed fewer people since the country's highest court was given authority to review death sentences at the start of this year, state media reported on Friday.
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China has intensified its battle against Internet and mobile phone pornography by threatening distributors with life in prison, Xinhua news agency said.
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SAN QUENTIN, Calif.  - Shortly after the gate  slammed shut leading to aging San Quentin prison's cells  housing the most dangerous murderers already condemned to die,  the warden issued a stark warning.
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A top Chinese health official has warned of the increased risk of infectious diseases such as SARS and bird flu jumping the border to Hong Kong.