China expels officials for graft
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Nine officials and business leaders are expelled from China's Communist Party, over a corruption scandal.
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A party official is sacked and work suspended on a controversial dam which has sparked protests in China.
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The top Communist Party leader in Shanghai is dismissed for corruption, Chinese state media reports.
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China has fired or otherwise punished five officials for failing to prevent pollution blamed for a massive algae bloom in one of the country's biggest lakes, a newspaper reported Monday.
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KAIPING, China -- In this city and many others in China, senior officials are embezzling tens of millions of dollars and fleeing overseas with their families.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["China Punishes 20,000 Rural Officials for Misconducts" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.
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An official is sacked and 100 people are investigated over the killing of a man in central China, state media says.
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China has launched a genuine effort to arrest North Korean defectors and those who help North Korean escapees go to South Korea. According to a source in China on Wednesday, Chinese police raided Tuesday a
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Hundreds of people in central China are expelled from the Communist Party for violating the one-child policy.
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China has disciplined officials for a chemical leak that contaminated a river and cut off drinking water and pledged action against those responsible for two other environmental disasters, state media reported on Wednesday.
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The move was a response to Britainâs expulsion of the same number of Russian diplomats earlier this week.
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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 Communist Party boss of Shanghai   has been sacked for corruption, state media announced on   Monday, toppling the highest leader so far in national party   chief Hu Jintao's drive to root out abuse and enforce loyalty.
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Iran has expelled a German diplomat for  "non-diplomatic activities," the Iranian Foreign Ministry said  on Sunday, in what may be retaliation for the expulsion of an  Iranian diplomat from Germany in July.
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About 4,000 corrupt Chinese officials have fled abroad in the past two decades, taking with them ill-gotten funds totaling more than &#36;600 million.
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Chinese officials are flouting a pledge made to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which helped to secure the 2008 games for Beijing, by harassing and abusing journalists, Human Rights Watch said Friday.
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MOSCOW, July 19-- Russia expelled four British diplomats on Thursday, retaliating in-kind just days after officials in London kicked four Russians out of the country in protest over the progress of a murder investigation.