China Dispatches Inspectors in Attempt to Stop Local Government "Land Grabs"
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  Beijing, 17 December: China's central government has dispatched a team of inspectors to some provinces in an attempt to put a stop to local government land grabs.
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HONG KONG China stirred worries that it will take tighter control over Hong Kong by saying on Thursday it must find ways to improve local governance and deal with a &quot;new social order&quot; in the territory.
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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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Hundreds of Chinese peasants have protested over family-planning rules in an area hit by similar demonstrations earlier this month, state media said on Thursday, with some setting fire to government vehicles.
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: Chinese engineers have stopped work on a dam project in a Pakistani tribal region over fears for their safety following the kidnapping of two colleagues by al-Qaida-linked abductors, an official said today.
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Chinese police have detained a manager  of a mine, wanted in connection with a flood that trapped 57  miners, who had fled to Inner Mongolia with his mistress, state  media reported on Friday.
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Four local officials have been detained and face a charge of dereliction of duty over a coal mine fire in central China which killed 70 miners last month, state media said.
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The arrests and seizures came at a time American politicians and executives are pressing China to take strong measures to curb software piracy.
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Local officials are using election law to block independent candidates.
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China has launched a crackdown on U.S. food imports, seizing "rancid" pistachio nuts and vowing tough inspections in the wake of Washington's own offensive rejecting suspect Chinese food and drug ingredients.
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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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Beijing - Chinese surveyors are about to fan out across the country&#39;s huge western part and risk their lives to create more detailed maps of the largely uncharted region, state media said Sunday.
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The US is set to take control of a local agency amid charges that millions in public money were wasted or stolen.
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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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All coal mines in Henan Province, central China, must immediately inspect hidden dangers, according to a notice issued Friday by the Provincial Coal Industrial Bureau.
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Government official calls for tools to help investigators sift through increasing amounts of data seized by law enforcement.
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China's senior safety inspector urged the public and the media Tuesday to expose workplace accidents in a bid to end corruption and official misdeeds aggravating the country's high rate of work deaths.