Shanghai party chief sacked for graft
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The Communist Party boss of Shanghai   has been sacked for corruption, state media announced on   Monday, toppling the highest leader so far in national party   chief Hu Jintao's drive to root out abuse and enforce loyalty.
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An American doctor whose home was raided by federal agents investigating the 2001 anthrax attacks has been sacked by his hospital.
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The head of Taiwan's main opposition party, Ma Ying-jeou, resigns after fraud charges.
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China's politically powerful vice president stepped down Sunday amid a reshuffling of the Communist Party leadership, removing from office a rival to President Hu Jintao.
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The deputy leader of the train drivers' union Aslef has been sacked, the BBC has learned.
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The chairman of Taiwan's ruling party resigned Saturday after prosecutors indicted him on graft charges, while the island's vice president, facing similar charges, said she would fight the allegations.
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Iraq's government said on Tuesday it   had sacked the chief judge trying Saddam Hussein on genocide   charges, saying he had sacrificed his neutrality by stating   last week the ousted leader was not a dictator.
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New trial reveals that the former CEO's exaggerations about the Oracle takeover bid led to his firing.
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China has executed a former state banker for embezzlement and accepting bribes, state media said on Wednesday, days after a senior Communist Party official was put to death for blowing up his mistress with a car bomb.
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All trace of Shanghai's disgraced Communist Party boss Chen Liangyu disappeared from the city government's official Web site on Monday moments after state media announced he had been fired for corruption.
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Chinese Finance Minister Jin Renqing resigns for personal reasons, the government announces.
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China has executed the former head of its food and drug watchdog for corruption, state media says.
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Ruling Uri Party chairman Shin Ki-nam made his resignation official in a press briefing following an emergency party meeting earlier in the day.
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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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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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Jiang, whose term was to have run until 2007, resigned at a meeting of the ruling Communist Partyâs Central Committee that ended yesterday.
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Turkey's transportation minister fired the country's chief railway official Wednesday amid accusations of mismanagement following three deadly train accidents the past two months.