Ex-Chief of China Food and Drug Unit Sentenced to Death for Graft
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The former director of Chinaâs top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death on Tuesday after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Former Senior CCP Official in North China Jailed for Graft" - Xinhua headline]  Shenyang, Feb.
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A former CIA contract employee was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 8 1/2 years in prison for beating an Afghan detainee who later died.
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Former head of food and drug watchdog executed for approving untested medicine in exchange for cash.
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An Afghan court sentenced a man to death Saturday for the 2001 killing of three foreign journalists and an Afghan colleague who were pulled from their cars, robbed and shot as they rushed to cover the collapse of the Taliban.
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To many Americans, the execution last week of Chinaâs former top food and drug official may seem extreme, but severe sanctions for bribe-taking have a long and bloody history.
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A Chinese health official once hailed  as a hero for his work in fighting the spread of SARS has been  jailed for life for taking "huge" bribes from vaccine  distributors, state media said on Saturday.
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A former policeman who killed his terminally ill wife in an abortive suicide pact is sentenced.
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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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An idealist and once one of Chinaâs top regulators, Zheng Xiaoyu, who was executed Tuesday, was ultimately corrupted by the system he sought to change.
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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 U.S. federal judge sentenced South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park to five years in prison on Thursday for money-laundering and acting as an unregistered foreign agent for Iraq in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal.
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China sentenced a man to death and jailed another 28 people for up to life on Tuesday for their roles in a massive slavery and child labor scandal involving scorching brickworks.
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China has executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog for corruption, state media says.
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Former Philippine president and movie star Joseph Estrada was found guilty of massive corruption on Wednesday and ordered to spend the rest of his life in prison.
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Two death sentences for corrupt senior officials were announced in China on Tuesday as President Hu Jintao lamented the difficulty of fighting graft, state press said.
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The former editor-in-chief of one of China's biggest newspapers, the Guangzhou Daily, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking bribes, the government said.