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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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In the latest corporate scandal to rock China, three officials at one of the country's biggest dairy groups, Yili Corp., have been detained, the company said Tuesday.
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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 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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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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Three Chinese who tried to smuggle fossils abroad by sending them through express mail have been arrested, the Xinhua news agency said on Friday.
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Police arrested the main financier and strategist of Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood opposition group Thursday, security and group officials said.
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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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BEIJING -- A Chinese researcher for The New York Times has been arrested on suspicion of providing state secrets to foreigners, but authorities haven't explained what he is accused of doing, his defense lawyer said yesterday.
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Police in China have arrested rights activist Hu Jia and charged him with inciting subversion in a crackdown ahead of the Beijing Olympics next year, another activist and a rights group said Saturday.
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Chinese police have arrested seven suspects in connection with a collection of Web sites providing online stripteases to foreign viewers.
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A Philippine communist leader accused of commanding a rebel uprising from exile for more than 20 years was arrested by Dutch police Tuesday on suspicion of ordering the murder of two former allies in his home country, prosecutors said.
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Beijing police have detained a television reporter for fabricating an investigative story about steamed buns stuffed with cardboard at a time when China's food safety is under intense international scrutiny.
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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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BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have detained a prominent, US-based Buddhist leader in connection with his plans to reopen an ancient temple complex in the province of Inner Mongolia last week and have forced dozens of his American followers to leave the region, local officials said yesterday.
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Singapore police arrest the chief executive of China Aviation Oil, the firm embroiled in a $550m  trading scandal.
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Police in Moscow have arrested a suspected crime boss with alleged links to Russia's multibillion dollar gas business who has long been sought by the FBI and Interpol, officials said Friday.