Chinese tycoon gets death for prostitution ring involving 50 officials
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An entertainment and property tycoon in southeast China's Fujian province has been sentenced to death for running a prostitution and gambling ring involving 50 government officials.
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A Chinese court sentenced the founder  of the country's largest pornography Web site to life  imprisonment on Wednesday and jailed another eight of the  site's organizers, state media reported.
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THE Police confirmed yesterday that between 30 and 50 people were killed in Thursdayâs pipeline explosion at Imore village in Lagos.
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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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Disgraced head of food and drug agency sentenced to death amid wave of consumer safety scandals.
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Xu Shuangfu, the founder of a group that once claimed more than a million followers in China, was put to death last week, his lawyer.
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A millionaire businessman is given the death penalty in China for raping more than 20 young girls.
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Chief financial officer of China's leading search engine dies over holiday.
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BEIJING: At least 57 miners were killed and three missing following a massive blaze at a complex of iron mines in northern China, the government reported Monday.
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BEIJING - A Chinese court has executed a gang leader convicted of selling more than 200 baby girls, a newspaper reported today. Li Guoju was put to death yesterday by a court in the central city of Puyang, the Beijing Times reported.
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China has awarded exactly 66,593.36 yuan (4,709 pounds) compensation to a woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her ex-husband and jailed for over two years, local media reported on Wednesday.
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BEIJING, July 10 -- Moving to address mounting concerns about the safety of its exports, China announced Tuesday that it had executed the former head of its food and drug safety agency for accepting bribes in exchange for approving substandard medicines.
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BEIJING -- China's former top drug regulator was sentenced to death today for taking bribes to approve untested medicines, as the country's main quality control agency announced its first recall system targeting unsafe food products.
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A Dutch appeals court was set to hand down its verdict in the case of seven Chinese citizens accused of running a human trafficking ring which transported 58 illegal immigrants to their death in June 2000.
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At least 50 miners were confirmed dead today as 20 more bodies were pulled out of a coal mine in China and search is continuing to rescue over 100 others after a fierce gas explosion ripped through the underground facility.
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BEIJING -- China's former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday in an unusually harsh punishment for taking bribes to approve substandard medicines, including an antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths.
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Twenty-four people have been held over the killing of a man in central China that has reignited calls to abolish the agency whose staff were allegedly involved in the death, state press reported Wednesday.