China Cracks Down on High-Rolling Officials
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China is targeting high-rolling  government officials and executives at state-owned companies in  a "relentless strike" against gambling, Xinhua news agency  said.
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China closes three firms and arrests several people involved in high-profile food and drug scandals.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 15 September: Chinese police authorities shut down more than 320 illegal web sites and Internet columns and deleted 15,000 items of hazardous information from Internet from September 6 to 8.
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The case, along with the detention of a Chinese researcher for The New York Times, has prompted international concern about ChinaÂs crackdown on press freedom.
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China is to crack down on "blindly" using foreign architects to design major public buildings as part of a drive to stifle costly architectural extravanganzas, state media reported on Saturday.
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BEIJING, Aug. 30 -- The Chinese government announced Thursday that five senior officials were being replaced, including the finance and state security ministers, as part of a broad realignment leading up to a crucial Communist Party congress in October.
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Chinese leaders imposed a ban on news reports about the death of Zhao Ziyang, who opposed the 1989 crackdown on protesters.
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Chinese who have grievances against local officials often take a course that is an age-old tradition in China: They shangfang, or travel to the capital for an audience with higher authorities.
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BEIJING, Sept. 25 -- The Communist Party chief of Shanghai was fired Monday in the highest-level purge of a Chinese official in more than a decade. Analysts called the dismissal a move by President Hu Jintao to root out corruption and consolidate his own power.
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Websites deemed illegal, as well as computer markets and internet cafes, are being targeted by Chinese authorities involved in a bigger crackdown on juvenile crime.
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China beefed up its ongoing crackdown on internet porn on Monday with new rules published that allow courts to issue life sentences to those convicted of posting pornography online.
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The Chinese government announces a crackdown on plastic bags, in a bid to cut pollution and save resources.
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China on Sunday announced detailed controls on the distribution of news by foreign news agencies, banning all content that violates its own tight media restrictions.
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China has added ghosts, monsters and other things that go bump in the night to its list of banned video and audio content in an intensified crackdown ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
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Fighting people smugglers and drug runners is old hat for China&#039;s border police who now have a new duty -- defusing marital squabbles and other disputes.
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Officials find misconduct at three of China's big banks, the country's auditor general says.
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Authorities crack down on many of the schools, which operate outside the public system and whose quality varies.