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The maverick Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yuan was arrested after he was found taking drugs in his Beijing home, Reuters reported.
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A former Boeing engineer was arrested on Monday on charges of stealing trade secrets for China about several aerospace programs, including the Space Shuttle, the U.S. Justice Department said.
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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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Officials say a doctor accused of running a shadowy organ transplant operation that illegally removed hundreds of kidneys has been arrested in southern Nepal
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Chinese authorities detained a prominent, U.S.-based Buddhist leader in connection with his plans to reopen an ancient temple complex in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia last week and have forced dozens of his American followers to leave the region, local officials said Wednesday.
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Police said they arrested the chief executive of Beijing-backed China Aviation Oil&#39;s subsidiary in Singapore on Wednesday, following the company&#39;s announcement last week of massive trading losses.
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The son of a high-ranking trade official in Vietnam is arrested on fraud allegations.
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LOS ANGELES - A man dressed as Chewbacca was arrested after police said the street performer head-butted a tour guide operator in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
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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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A top official in Egypt's authority of antiquities is arrested as part of probe into restoration project bribes.
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One of the Chinese nationals sought for  questioning in connection with an unspecified, unconfirmed  threat against the city of Boston has been in U.S. custody for  more than two months, the FBI said on Saturday.
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A former director of the secret police under President Alvaro Uribe was arrested Thursday on charges of collaborating with Colombia's illegal far-right militias, his lawyer said.
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China has detained two prominent intellectuals in what appears to be a renewed crackdown on dissent by authorities, family members and sources said.
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The mayor of the Russian Far East's largest city was ordered arrested Wednesday amid a criminal investigation into suspect land deals and embezzlement in the latest bout of corruption to hit the long-troubled port.
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The United States Embassy in Beijing confirmed on Thursday that the chairman of an American electronics distribution company had been arrested and accused of causing
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China has formally arrested a New York  Times researcher detained last month for passing state secrets  to foreigners, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of  death, his lawyer said on Thursday.
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Federal agents on Saturday arrested Mexico City's former finance secretary, who disappeared this year after he was videotaped spending what appeared to be taxpayer money at casinos in Las Vegas.