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Yahoo! News: World - China


China 'jails porn website operator for 13 years' (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 07:12 AM PST

A man surfs the internet in Beijing, June 2009. China has sentenced a man who operated a porn website to 13 years in jail and fined him 100,000 yuan (15,000 dollars), state media said, amid an ongoing campaign to crack down on online sexual content.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - China has sentenced a man who operated a porn website to 13 years in jail and fined him 100,000 yuan (15,000 dollars), state media said, amid an ongoing campaign to crack down on online sexual content.


China economy to grow 10 percent in 2010: think tank (AFP)

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 01:19 AM PST

Farmers sell strawberries from carts on a Beijing street on February 2, 2010. A top state-run think tank has forecast that China will return to double digital growth this year, with a 10 percent rise in gross domestic product, state media reported Sunday.(AFP/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - A top state-run think tank has forecast that China will return to double digital growth this year, with a 10 percent rise in gross domestic product, state media reported Sunday.


Former Chinese police chief's gang trial ends (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 10:19 PM PST

AP - A Chinese court has concluded the trial of a former police chief accused of protecting gangs, accepting bribes and rape in a southwestern China megacity with a long history of corruption.

Thousands of dinosaur footprints uncovered in China (AFP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 09:55 PM PST

A mound strewn with dinosaur bones is seen October 2009 in Zhucheng, in northeast China's Shandong province. Paleontologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.(AFP/File)AFP - Archaeologists in China have uncovered more than 3,000 dinosaur footprints, state media reported, in an area said to be the world's largest grouping of fossilised bones belonging to the ancient animals.


China jails man 13 years for running porn Web site (AP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 08:43 PM PST

AP - A man in southern China was sentenced to 13 years in jail for running a pornographic Web site, a state news agency reported Sunday, amid a national crackdown on lewd online content.

Trial of top China official accused of mob links ends (AFP)

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 08:32 PM PST

People claiming to be victims of Wen Qiang, former director of the justice department of Chongqing, protest outside the court where Wen is on trial, February 2. The trial of the former top Chinese official accused of gangster links, rape and taking bribes ended Sunday, the court said, bringing to a close the highest-profile case yet of a huge mafia crackdown.(AFP/File)AFP - The trial of a former top Chinese official accused of gangster links, rape and taking bribes ended Sunday, the court said, bringing to a close the highest-profile case yet of a huge mafia crackdown.


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