China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption
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A former high-ranking official at Chinaâs top food and drug watchdog agency has been sentenced to death.
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Authorities have fired an official in central China after city inspectors reportedly beat to death a man who filmed their confrontation with villagers, China's Xinhua news agency reported Friday.
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China executed a former drug and food safety chief on Tuesday for corruption in an unusually swift sentence which will serve as a warning amid a series of health scandals that have stained the "made in China" brand.
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China's crackdown on white-collar crime sees four people executed for defrauding two of the country's biggest banks.
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The Communist Party secretary of   Shanghai has been dismissed for corruption, state media   announced on Monday, the highest official to be felled by a   graft probe since Hu Jintao became national party boss in 2002.
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The former president of the Philippines, Joseph Estrada, was sentenced to life in prison today after he was found guilty of corruption.
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One man is sentenced to death and 28 jailed for involvement in a slave labour scandal in northern China.
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A Chinese man is sentenced to death and another to life in prison, for murdering a Japanese family in 2003.
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China on Wednesday hailed the swift execution of the nation's former drug safety chief as a warning to corrupt officials while detailing a web of graft that thrived for years without punishment.
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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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The Chinese regulator who was executed Tuesday was ultimately corrupted by the system he sought to change.
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BEIJING, May 29 -- The disgraced head of China's drug administration was sentenced to death Tuesday for accepting what a court described as "huge bribes" to approve faulty medicines, including a batch of antibiotics that killed six patients and sickened 80.
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A Chinese official faces the death penalty for stealing more than 250 antiques, including national treasures.
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A Beijing court sentenced the former head of China&#39;s food and drug administration to death Tuesday on corruption charges for accepting bribes in return for granting approvals to hundreds of 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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BEIJING -- A former department head at China's drug regulation agency was sentenced to death Friday on bribery charges, as U.S. regulators ordered a recall of three more Chinese-made products deemed dangerous to children.
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An Afghan court has sentenced to death three Afghans convicted of killing 11 Chinese road engineers in the northeastern province of Kunduz last June, a Supreme Court Judge said on Friday.