China punishes 95 officials after brickwork slavery
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China has punished dozens of officials for allowing slave-like exploitation of workers and children in brick kilns, but announced criminal investigations against only six.
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Nearly 2,000 officials broke the one-child rule in China's Hunan province in 2000-2005, authorities say.
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The Chinese regulator who was executed Tuesday was ultimately corrupted by the system he sought to change.
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LONDON - The British government has fired 19 civil servants and disciplined more than 200 in an unprecedented crackdown on viewing internet porn at work, officials say.
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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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A building contractor is sentenced to 25 years in jail for negligence that led to the deaths of nearly 200 in a 1999 earthquake.
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A Chinese city in a region notorious for fatal coal mining accidents has rounded up 80 people claiming to be "reporters" who extorted money from officials and owners of illegal mines by threatening media exposure, state media said on Friday.
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Chinese police have captured a man accused of holding workers in virtual slavery, state media reported on Sunday amid a national uproar over teenagers and men forced to work in brutal, furnace-like brick kilns.
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A Chinese court jailed two managers of  a state-owned coal mine on Wednesday for negligence two years  after a gas explosion killed 166 miners, Xinhua news agency  said.
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BEIJING, June 21 -- The outrage started with the discovery that more than 500 migrant laborers had been forced to work in conditions bordering on slavery in out-of-the-way brick kilns. Local Communist Party authorities, state-run media said, had looked the other way.
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China has awarded exactly 66,593.36 yuan (4,709 pounds) compensation to a woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her ex-husband and jailed for over two years, local media reported on Wednesday.
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The governor of the Chinese province shaken by a slave labor scandal publicly apologized on Friday, as officials described farmers, children and mentally impaired people snatched into a grim rural underworld.
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Chinese media demanded official resignations and repentance on Monday amid popular outrage over the virtual enslavement of workers in scorching brick kilns that reports said had operated with government complicity.
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Chinese police have captured a man accused of holding workers in virtual slavery, state media reported on Sunday amid a national scandal over rural teenagers and men forced to work in brutal, furnace-like brick kilns.
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Dozens are to be punished over workplace deaths in China, as claims persist 10 Olympic workers died.
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Nearly 2,000 officials in central China's Hunan province have been caught breaking China's strict one-child policy, state media reported Sunday.
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Excerpt from report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Illegal Local Government Construction Destroying China's Forests" - Xinhua headline]  Beijing, Feb.