Ex-Head of China FDA Sentenced To Death
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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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China executes a prominent Christian sect leader after he was convicted of murdering rivals, reports say.
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The husband of the late state Controller Kathy Augustine was convicted Friday of killing her by injecting her with a paralyzing drug that FBI experts detected in her system months after her death.
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Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after an anti-graft court found him guilty of plunder and barred him from holding public office again.
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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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China sentenced the former head of its food and drugs agency to death for corruption on Tuesday in a surprise judgment as the government sought to contain a wave of scandals over health safety.
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A former policeman who killed his terminally ill wife in an abortive suicide pact is sentenced.
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Zhao Ziyang, former Chinese Communist Party chief who was purged for sympathizing with the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests, lay in a deep coma on Sunday and could die at any time, a source close to his family said.
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China executed the former chief of its food and drug watchdog on Tuesday, following a sensational downfall that saw him become a symbol of the ruling Communist Party&#39;s struggle against corruption.
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China's former drug and food safety watchdog chief was executed on Tuesday after being found guilty of corruption and dereliction of duty amid a series of food and drug safety scandals, Xinhua news agency said.
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China sentences the former head of its Food and Drug Administration to death for corruption, state media says.
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The former head of Hollinger International was found guilty of taking illegal payments from the company.
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Former Philippine President Joseph Estrada was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-graft court on Wednesday, more than six years after he was ousted from office in an army-backed revolt.
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A woman convicted in the largest case  of drug trafficking in China's capital in more than 50 years  was executed on Tuesday, Chinanews.com news Web site reported.
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Disgraced former US Olympic champion sentenced to prison for lying to investigators about steroid use
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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.
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China will severely punish companies that produce fake and poor quality rabies vaccines, the country's food and drug watchdog said on Thursday, after several people reportedly died from substandard vaccines.