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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China executes a prominent Christian sect leader after he was convicted of murdering rivals, reports say.
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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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A judge sentenced former Food and Drug Administration chief Lester M. Crawford yesterday to three years of supervised probation and fined him about $90,000 for lying about stocks he owned in companies regulated by the agency.
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The unusually harsh sentence comes at a time of concerns for the quality and safety of Chinaâs food and drug system.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 22 -- South Korean businessman and influence peddler Tongsun Park was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for his role in the bribery scandal surrounding the United Nation's oil-for-food program for Iraq a decade ago.
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BEIJING, July 10 -- Moving to address mounting concerns about the safety of its exports, China announced Tuesday that it had executed the former head of its food and drug safety agency for accepting bribes in exchange for approving substandard medicines.
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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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The death sentence of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV has been commuted to life in prison, a top Libyan official said Tuesday.
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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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China sentenced a man to life in jail  on Thursday for running what state media called the country's  biggest ever pirate film disc smuggling ring.
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BEIJING -- China's former top drug regulator was sentenced to death Tuesday in an unusually harsh punishment for taking bribes to approve substandard medicines, including an antibiotic blamed for at least 10 deaths.
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BAGHDAD, June 24 -- Three senior aides to Saddam Hussein, including the one known as "Chemical Ali," were found guilty of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Iraqi High Tribunal on Sunday and sentenced to death by hanging for their roles in the mass slaughter of as many as...
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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 Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced two former high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein's regime to death for their role in a genocidal campaign against Iraq's ethnic Kurds that killed tens of thousands in the 1980s.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - A retired police   commissioner was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for   murder, torture and kidnappings during Argentina's "dirty war,"   in one of the first sentences since amnesty laws were scrapped   last year.
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A former nurse was sentenced Thursday to life in prison on charges that she killed 10 hospital patients with drug injections because she found them too demanding.