Law & Order
China has detained 53 villagers, who were suffering from lead poisoning, after the bus taking them for health checks was stopped by police.
China charges tycoon with financial crimes
BEIJING — A Chinese court has charged the founder of home appliance giant GOME -- once the country's richest man -- with bribery, insider trading and illegal business dealings, state media reported.
Chinese court upholds prominent scholar's 11-year punishment
BEIJING -- A Chinese court upheld Thursday the unprecedented 11-year sentence given to a prominent scholar who had called for political reform, the latest in a string of harsh punishments for dissenters.
US and EU call for release of well-known Chinese dissident
The US and European Union today renewed calls for the immediate release of high profile dissident Liu Xiaobo, as a Chinese court upheld his 11-year-sentence.
China jails investigator into Sichuan earthquake schools
A Chinese activist who investigated the deaths of children in schools that collapsed in the Sichuan earthquake was today jailed for five years for subversion, his lawyer said.
Mainland quake activist jailed
A mainland activist who sought to document shoddy construction that contributed to deaths in the devastating 2008 Sichuan earthquake, has been sentenced to five years in prison for subversion, according to his lawyer.
Criminal suspect escorted back to China from Thailand
A Chinese national suspected of embezzling more than 13 million yuan (1.9 million U.S. dollars) has been escorted back from Thailand where he had stayed 11 years, China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said Friday.
China says 5,394 arrested in Internet porn crackdown
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police arrested thousands in a drive against Internet pornography throughout 2009, officials said, vowing a deepening crackdown that critics say is being used to tighten overall censorship.
Britain strongly condemns China for execution of drug trafficker
Britain and China were engaged in a fierce diplomatic argument Tuesday after the Chinese government executed a British citizen for drug trafficking despite claims that he was mentally ill and unfit to stand trial.
Fury as China executes mentally ill British drug smuggler
China was this morning condemned for its human rights record after a British man who, his supporters say, had mental health problems, was executed for smuggling drugs.
17 dead in China mine blasts: state media
BEIJING — Seventeen coal miners have been killed and six others trapped in two gas explosions in China, state media said Monday, in the latest accidents to strike the country's notoriously dangerous mining sector.
Chinese dissident gets 11 years for subversion
BEIJING -- A Chinese court sentenced a prominent dissident to 11 years on Friday - the longest term ever handed down for subversion charges, according to rights groups that say it signals the government will take an increasingly hard line against ...
China says 42 dead, 66 trapped in mine explosion
BEIJING — A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them.
China vows to rescue 25 crew aboard hijacked merchant ship
China plans to make "every effort to rescue" a merchant ship and crew hijacked in the Indian Ocean, the country's state news agency reported on Tuesday.
China sentences six to death over Xinjiang riots
A Chinese court in the restive far western region of Xinjiang on Monday sentenced six people to death for murder and other crimes committed during ethnic rioting in July in which almost 200 people died.
Mentally ill Briton faces execution for smuggling heroin into China
A British man is facing execution after being convicted of smuggling heroin into China. Akmal Shaikh, 53, from north London, was arrested after a suitcase he was carrying was allegedly found to contain 4kg of the drug, with a value of £250,000.
China makes it illegal to discuss independence for Xinjiang
A new law in the far-western Chinese province of Xinjiang makes it a criminal offence for people to discuss separatism on the internet, according to state media.
Berserk Beijing knifeman kills two, injures 12
A knife-wielding man ran amok in a commercial district in downtown Beijing last night killing two security guards and injuring 12 other people, according to Xinhua News Agency.
China sentences 4 Xinjiang syringe attackers to 8-15 years in jail
Four Uighur men were sentenced to between eight and 15 years in prison for stabbing a Han Chinese woman in the neck with a syringe in the capital of the ethnically divided Xinjiang region in China's northwest.
'Bomb making gang' arrested in Xinjiang
Mainland state media says security forces have arrested six suspects in a bomb-making operation in the western region of Xinjiang.