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China arrests man who allegedly kept graft diary

2010-03-15T01:45:07Z

<div id="subtitle">China gov't official who allegedly kept lurid diary arrested on suspicion of taking bribes</div><div><p>A Chinese government official has been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes a month after a series of steamy diary entries he allegedly wrote appeared online describing casual sex, drinking parties and under-the-table payments.</p><p>Han Feng, 53, was arrested for allegedly taking 482,000 yuan ($...

Online diaries expose China official to graft probe

2010-03-03T00:16:30Z

<div><p>Authorities are investigating an official in southern China after his purported diaries appeared on the Internet, describing acts of alleged bribery and sexual misconduct, state media said Wednesday.</p><p>Han Feng resigned from the Guangxi tobacco monopoly bureau after the publication of his diaries led to accusations of corruption, a lavish lifestyle and imp...

China to curb bonuses for bankers

2010-03-02T23:15:36Z

<div><p>China is expected to soon issue rules capping bonus payments to bankers, as regulators seek to curb excessive risk-taking and rein in rampant lending, state media said Wednesday.</p><p>Bonuses for senior executives should be no more than three times their base salary, under new rules likely to be issued this month, the China Daily...

China's Wang Meng might retire

2010-02-28T21:16:05Z

<div><p>China's triple Olympic gold medallist in women's short track speed skating Wang Meng is contemplating retirement following her record haul at the Vancouver Games, state press said Monday.</p><p>"I'm now nearly 25 years old and it is four years to the China's ruling Communist Party has issued an ethics code to curb the widespread corruption that its leaders see as one of the biggest threats to its long-term survival, state media reported Wednesday.</p><p>The guidelines spell out 52 banned practices for officials, including accepting cash or other financial rewards as gifts and using their influence to benefit family, friends or associates, the BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese inspectors tracing new cases of contaminated milk have shut dairy firms in the northwest and seized 72 metric tons of milk powder tainted with melamine, an industrial compound that killed at least six children in 2008.</p><p>Nearly 100 metric tons of tainted milk powder may still be on shop shel...

More tainted milk products found in China shops

2010-02-22T15:24:31Z

<div><p>Melamine-laced milk products have been found on sale in China, state media said on Monday, more than a year after the chemical was blamed for six deaths in a huge scandal over contaminated dairy goods.</p><p>Authorities in the southwestern province of Guizhou found that products made by three food companies contained illegally h...

Garlic prices soar in China

2010-02-23T18:16:07Z

<div><p>The price of garlic has shot up 40-fold this year in China, the world's largest producer of the plant, in part due to an unexpected factor -- a popular belief that it can help ward off swine flu.</p><p>Garlic has outperformed stocks, property and even gold after low demand due to the financial crisis late last year led Chinese farmers -- responsible for about three-quarters of world supply -...

China warns of 'grim' swine flu battle, 4th death reported

2010-02-24T12:40:29Z

<div><p>China has warned the country's battle against swine flu is "extremely grim" after infection levels spiked in some areas and a Beijing university student became the fourth person here to die of the virus.</p><p>"There is a surge in patients in many parts of China, some schools have experienced clusters of cases, and some areas have entered the flu...

China teacher held after kids jabbed with syringe

2010-02-24T14:03:54Z

<div><p>A 24-year-old female kindergarten teacher has been detained in southwest China after allegedly stabbing more than 20 children with a syringe to discipline them, state media reported Tuesday.</p><p>The woman, Sun Qiqi, was taken into custody at the weekend in Yunnan province after angry parents complained to police about the allege...

More than half of Chinese 'don't want swine flu shot'

2010-02-24T14:22:57Z

<div><p>More than half of all Chinese do not plan to be vaccinated against swine flu because they are unsure about the safety of the shot, according to a survey by state media published Monday.</p><p>The poll by the China Daily and popular web portal sohu.com said more than 54 percent of the...

Student receives an H1N1 vaccine injection at a school in Beijing

2009-09-21T21:11:27Z

A student receives an H1N1 vaccine injection at a school in Beijing September 21, 2009. Students in the national capital yesterday became the first large group of people worldwide to receive an H1N1 flu vaccination, sources with the municipality confirmed, China Daily reported. Picture taken September 21, 2009. REUTERS/China Daily (Zhuhai, Guangdong province, September 15, 2009. The vessel ran aground due to Typhoon Koppu on Tuesday, spilling up to 50 tonnes (50,000 kilograms) of engine fuel and covering more than 24,000 square metres (258,333 squa...

Workers clean up a patch of engine fuel from a Panamanian cargo vessel that ran aground near Gaolan Island in Zhuhai

2009-09-16T01:11:27Z

Workers clean up a patch of engine fuel from a Panamanian cargo vessel that ran aground near Gaolan Island in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, September 15, 2009. The vessel ran aground due to Typhoon Koppu on Tuesday, spilling up to 50 tonnes (50,000 kilograms) of engine fuel and covering more than 24,000 square metres (258,333 squa...

Residents make their way amid strong winds in Fuyang, in the Anhui province

2009-08-29T01:11:05Z

Residents make their way amid strong winds in Fuyang, in the Anhui province, August 29, 2009. The provincial meteorological bureau issued a yellow alarm of thunder storm and heavy wind on Friday, according to China Daily. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA ENVIRONMENT) CH...

Most China transplants from prisoners: state media

2010-02-25T15:48:39Z

<div><p>More than 65 percent of all transplanted organs in China come from executed prisoners, a situation that a senior health official has condemned as improper, state media reported Wednesday.</p><p>The report in the English-language China Daily, which attributed the figure to health experts, was a rare ...

China donor drive aims to end prisoner organ trade

2010-02-25T15:49:39Z

<div><p>BEIJING (Reuters) - China launched its first national organ donation system in a bid to crack down on organ trafficking and create a source for transplants other than executed prisoners, who currently make up the majority of donors.</p><p>Executed criminals account for 65 percent o...

Uighur exile airs prison killing allegation

2010-02-25T16:09:54Z

<div><p>Rebiya Kadeer, the leader of China's Uighur minority in exile, has highlighted a report that nearly 200 inmates were "tortured" to death in prison.</p><p>The allegations came as a war of words intensifies between Beijing and the 62-year-old former businesswoman. China has accused her of in...

Uighur exile airs report on Xinjiang prison killings

2010-02-25T16:13:14Z

<div><p> Rebiya Kadeer, the leader of China's Uighur minority in exile, has highlighted a report that nearly 200 inmates were "tortured" to death in prison.</p><p>The allegations came as a war of words intensifies between Beijing and the 62-year-old former businesswoman. China has accused her of i...

China's Xinjiang govt denies date set for trials

2010-02-25T16:11:17Z

<div><p>The government in northwest China's Xinjiang region on Tuesday denied a report in the state media that more than 200 people would be put on trial this week over recent deadly ethnic unrest in the area.</p><p>On Monday, the state-run