Shanghai to prosecute 9 gov't officials
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China plans to prosecute nine former government and state industry officials over a politically charged pension fund scandal in its business hub of Shanghai, state media reported Friday.
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By Qiu Quanlin  GUANGZHOU: Officials fro
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An official is sacked and 100 people are investigated over the killing of a man in central China, state media says.
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A private school in Shanghai run by Americans has turned over nine North Korean women to Chinese police after they entered the facility in an apparent bid for asylum.
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A group of nine North Koreans who sought asylum in the American School in Shanghai were handed over to Chinese police, US officials disclosed Thursday even as 43 other defectors
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Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko said Friday he would prosecute government officials and their supporters for crimes committed during the last decade should he win Ukraine's Dec.
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Afghan police arrested nine people accused of arranging suicide bombings, and separately detained 12 Taliban militants suspected of planning attacks, officials said.
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A Shanghai gang of nine who helped break each others&#39; arms and then jumped off building sites to win compensation were jailed for extorting 100,000 yuan ($13,000) from their bosses, local media said on Tuesday.
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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.
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A corrupt senior Chinese official was denounced by his 11 mistresses after some of their husbands were sentenced to death for graft, state media said on Friday.
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By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN  SHANGHAI, China - Shanghai's top leader was dismissed Monday for alleged corruption, the highest level official to be axed in more than a decade as President Hu Jintao moves to consolidate his power.
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Chinese police have detained 168 people accused of involvement in slavery that trapped victims in scorching brick kilns, state media said on Monday, as outrage over official complicity rippled through the usually tame press.
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Moving to halt a bloody drug war in this popular beach resort, Mexico investigated the federal prosecutor's office Wednesday and arrested a local official in the killings of nine people, including three federal agents.
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Alcatel-Lucent will pay fines in response to charges it provided incentives to Chinese government officials.
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Russian prosecutors have detained 10 people in connection with the killing of crusading reporter Anna Politkovskaya and will soon charge them, the country's chief prosecutor said on Monday.
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A Chinese Communist Party official on Wednesday promised a "clean" 2008 Olympics, one day after the party expelled the Beijing vice mayor in charge of Olympic construction projects, accusing him of bribery and other charges, state media said.
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BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have arrested or reprimanded more than 750 officials in recent months in connection with billions of dollars in financial irregularities ranging from unpaid taxes to embezzlement, according to a report made public yesterday.