Chinese Director Arrested
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The maverick Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yuan was arrested after he was found taking drugs in his Beijing home, Reuters reported.
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China's arrest of a prominent rights campaigner is part of an increasing crackdown on critics that breaks promises it made to land the Olympics, said activists who called for world pressure on Beijing.
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A man wanted in several countries for allegedly running an international fraud operation is detained in Russia.
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China arrests 10 people accused of copying and distributing explicit images of Hong Kong actor Edison Chan.
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Chinese police have arrested a journalist accused of faking an investigative report on buns stuffed with shredded cardboard that made headlines around the world and Beijing Television apologized for airing the footage.
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A Los Angeles-based businessman and his wife have been arrested for paying 1.7 million dollars in bribes to a Thailand government official for the right to manage the Bangkok International Film Festival, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
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Chinese police detain three top executives at milk giant Yili, with reports suggesting that they are being investigated for embezzlement.
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The leader of the British National Party was arrested today following a TV documentary exposing the extent of racism in the organisation, the party said today.
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Taiwan police have arrested the man who made the bullets used in the election-eve shooting of President Chen Shui-bian in March, the island&#39;s top police investigator says.
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A man is arrested under tightened anti-piracy laws for allegedly recording a film from a cinema screen.
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SINGAPORE : Singapore&#39;s white collar crime buster, the Commercial Affairs Department, has arrested China Aviation Oil&#39;s beleaguered chief executive, Chen Jiulin.
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In the latest corporate scandal to rock China, three officials at one of the country's biggest dairy groups, Yili Corp., have been detained, the company said Tuesday.
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A German man has been arrested on  suspicion of arranging the supply of nuclear arms equipment to  a foreign state, German federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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Chinese police have detained dissident   writer Zhang Jianhong on allegations of "inciting subversion"   through online political essays, a U.S.-based group advocating   media rights said on Thursday.
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THE mainland Chinese executive at the centre of Singaporeâs biggest rogue trading scandal since Nick Leeson brought down Barings Bank in 1995 was yesterday arrested by the islandâs commercial crimes police unit.
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China has detained two prominent intellectuals in what appears to be a renewed crackdown on dissent by authorities, family members and sources said.
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Beijing police have detained a television reporter for fabricating an investigative story about steamed buns stuffed with cardboard at a time when China's food safety is under intense international scrutiny.