China slave scandal brings resignation calls
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Chinese police have detained 168 people accused of involvement in slavery that trapped victims in scorching brick kilns, state media said on Monday, as outrage over official complicity rippled through the usually tame press.
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BEIJING -- A Communist Party whistle-blower who rose to brief fame in China by denouncing official corruption has been relieved of his duties and placed under a form of house arrest while authorities investigate his conduct, friends and neighbors said yesterday.
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The Communist Party secretary of   Shanghai has been dismissed for corruption, state media   announced on Monday, the highest official to be felled by a   graft probe since Hu Jintao became national party boss in 2002.
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Two Bank of China officials have reportedly vanished along with up to $120m in the latest scandal to hit China's banking sector.
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Jiang Zemin, the conservative chief of the People&#39;s Liberation Army, may announce his resignation within weeks, raising hopes for democratic reform in China and an easing of tensions over Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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The top Communist Party leader in Shanghai is dismissed for corruption, Chinese state media reports.
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The public shaming of a group of prostitutes and pimps, recalling the Cultural Revolution, has prompted an angry backlash in China.
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The Chinese state pledges to bring to justice traffickers who enslaved children and adults to work in brick kilns.
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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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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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Black, who is facing battles with shareholders and investigations in the US and Canada, announced plans to quit his posts last week.
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By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN  SHANGHAI, China - Shanghai's top leader was dismissed Monday for alleged corruption, the highest level official to be axed in more than a decade as President Hu Jintao moves to consolidate his power.
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HONG KONG - The relatives and political colleagues of a Hong Kong democracy activist jailed in China for soliciting a prostitute yesterday called on the Chinese authorities to release him on medical grounds, a colleague said.
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China's ruling Communist Party has offered leniency if corrupt officials confess, state media said on Friday of a problem that has fuelled mounting public discontent.
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This week's resignation of its president points to an internal split: civil rights vs. economic progress.
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Shanghai's top Communist Party leader has been sacked over a major corruption scandal, China's state press said, although analysts suggested it could be part of a power play by President Hu Jintao.
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BEIJING -- 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.