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Beijing Adult Entertainment: South Sudan president seeks help from China
BEIJING (AP) – The president of South Sudan is in China seeking support for an oil pipeline to lessen his country’s dependence on Sudan as a bomb attack by its rival threatened to trigger an all-out war.
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“Because the visit comes amid dangerous hostilities, Beijing will try to navigate a course that both satisfies its own interests and steers the parties toward peace,” he said.
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The Financial Times on Sunday quoted South Sudan’s lead negotiator Pagan Amum as saying Kiir would be seeking Chinese financing for a long-planned oil pipeline that would bypass Sudan. The report said Beijing has already pledged technical assistance for the project.
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Jiang said kicking Liu Yingcai out of South Sudan may have been meant to prod Beijing into exerting more pressure on Sudan to stop the oil diversions but that it was unlikely to impact China-South Sudan relations in the long run.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: China, NKorea reaffirm ties after rocket test
12th military member tied to prostitution scandal
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BEIJING (AP) – Chinese President Hu Jintao met with a top North Korean envoy in a reaffirmation of traditional ties following Chinese pique over Pyongyang’s recent attempted rocket launch.
State broadcaster CCTV made no mention of the failed April 13 launch in its report on Hu’s meeting Monday with Workers’ Party international relations chief Kim Yong Il at the Great Hall of the People in the heart of Beijing.
Hu sent his congratulations to North Korea’s young new leader Kim Jong Un on his assuming the title of Workers’ Party first secretary and said strengthening ties with North Korea was a key priority for China’s ruling communists.
“We will carry on this tradition … boost strategic communication and coordination on key international issues and work for peace and stability on the Korean peninsula,” CCTV quoted Hu, who also leads the Chinese Communist Party, as saying.
Kim Jong Un concurred in a statement carried late Monday by the official Korean Central Ne …
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Beijing Escorts: Ethics training needed for civil servants: Chinese official
Beijing : Professional ethics training for civil servants is a “pressing and long-term strategic task” that could have a profound influence on the government’s work efficiency as well as the image of the Communist Party of China (CPC), a senior official has said.
“Lawful administration and professional ethics are two major aspects of our civil servants’ quality. Their ethics level should reflect that of society on the whole, and they should set an moral example for others,” said Yang Shiqiu, party chief of the State Administration of Civil Service (SACS).
Yang’s comments were carried in Tuesday’s People’s Daily, the flagship newspaper of the CPC.
In November last year, the SACS issued guidelines offering detailed training standards including the minimum course hours and training methods. This pushed the professional ethics campaign on civil servants, an idea initiated in 2009, to new heights, reported Xinhua.
The move came in response to increased public outcry, as reports emerged of civil servants using prostitutes, taking bribes and leading luxurious lifestyles.
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BEIJING (AP) — The man once considered China’s most-wanted fugitive went on trial Friday, accused of using cash, liquor and prostitutes to bribe officials while he ran the country’s largest-ever smuggling ring.
Lai Changxing – who battled deportation from Canada for a decade, saying he risked torture or execution if returned – appeared in court in the southern coastal city of Xiamen for the start of the high-profile hearings, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
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More than 600 people were investigated, including customs, police and government officials, and 300 people were punished for their involvement in Lai’s alleged deals, according to Xinhua. Lai is accused of using a specially built entertainment complex to throw lavish parties for officials, plying them with cash, booze and prostitutes.
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On Friday, the Canadian Embassy in Beijing issued a statement saying that under assurances provided by the Chinese government, embassy officials were at the trial in Xiamen.
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Beijing Adult Entertainment: Hearings begin for China’s former No. 1 fugitive
BEIJING—A Chinese man who battled deportation from Canada for a decade after being accused of heading China’s largest-ever smuggling ring went on trial Friday.
A court in the southern coastal city of Xiamen began to hear the high-profile case against Lai Changxing, who was extradited last July, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He fled China in 1999.
Lai is accused of masterminding a $10 billion network that smuggled everything from cigarettes to cars to oil and bribed dozens of government workers between 1996 and 1999. The operation robbed the government of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes.
He is alleged to have plied officials with liquor and prostitutes in a country where corruption is rife among government employees.
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In Canada, Lai fought against deportation, arguing he could face the death penalty or be tortured and would not get a fair trial in his home country. Beijing has assured Ottawa that Lai will not face the death penalty.
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Beijing Escorts: Hearings begin for China’s former No. 1 fugitive
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese man who battled deportation from Canada for a decade after being accused of heading China’s largest-ever smuggling ring went on trial Friday.
A court in the southern coastal city of Xiamen began to hear the high-profile case against Lai Changxing, who was extradited last July, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He fled China in 1999.
Lai is accused of masterminding a $10 billion network that smuggled everything from cigarettes to cars to oil and bribed dozens of government workers between 1996 and 1999. The operation robbed the government of millions of dollars in unpaid taxes.
He is alleged to have plied officials with liquor and prostitutes in a country where corruption is rife among government employees.
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In Canada, Lai fought against deportation, arguing he could face the death penalty or be tortured and would not get a fair trial in his home country. Beijing has assured Ottawa that Lai will not face the death penalty.
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Beijing Escorts: Torture marred rule of fallen Chinese leader: lawyer
BEIJING (Reuters) – Lawyer Li Zhuang remembers the snap as police buckled him into a “tiger seat”, an instrument for sleep deprivation that he said was a staple in the crusade against organized crime that won fame for China’s now fallen leadership aspirant Bo Xilai.
Li has been the most outspoken lawyer to challenge Bo’s crackdown on crime syndicates, an offensive that boosted Bo’s nationwide popularity and hopes for climbing from his base in Chongqing, a huge city in the southwest, to the centre of power when China’s new leadership is chosen later this year.
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“All those who were arrested were deprived of sleep for the first few days. In torture parlance, it’s called a ‘rolling war’, so you’re deprived of sleep and utterly exhausted,” he told Reuters in a sometimes tearful interview in Beijing.
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Bo launched the anti-crime drive in 2009. Chongqing police held thousands of suspects, putting on trial dozens of business men and women and officials accused of extortion, graft and running syndicates for protection rackets and prostitution.
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Beijing Escorts: Torture marred rule of fallen Chinese leader – lawyer
BEIJING (Reuters) – Lawyer Li Zhuang remembers the snap as police buckled him into a “tiger seat”, an instrument for sleep deprivation that he said was a staple in the crusade against organised crime that won fame for China’s now fallen leadership aspirant Bo Xilai.
Li has been the most outspoken lawyer to challenge Bo’s crackdown on crime syndicates, an offensive that boosted Bo’s nationwide popularity and hopes for climbing from his base in Chongqing, a huge city in the southwest, to the centre of power when China’s new leadership is chosen later this year.
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“All those who were arrested were deprived of sleep for the first few days. In torture parlance, it’s called a ‘rolling war’, so you’re deprived of sleep and utterly exhausted,” he told Reuters in a sometimes tearful interview in Beijing.
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Bo launched the anti-crime drive in 2009. Chongqing police held thousands of suspects, putting on trial dozens of business men and women and officials accused of extortion, graft and running syndicates for protection rackets and prostitution.
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Beijing Escorts: Lawyers say Strauss-Kahn unfairly targeted, Canada
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn gestures as he speaks at an economy conference organized by Chinese Internet company Netease in Beijing, China on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
PARIS Lawyers defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn against allegations he was involved in a French prostitution ring say he is being unfairly targeted for his active extramarital sex life and committed no crime.
They are also protesting a judge’s order barring the former International Monetary Fund chief from talking to the media pending further investigation.
Strauss-Kahn, a former French presidential hopeful, was handed preliminary charges Monday alleging he was involved in a hotel prostitution ring in France.
Lawyer Henri Leclerc said Tuesday that Strauss-Kahn didn’t know he was having sex with prostitutes, and that he’s certain the case against Strauss-Kahn will crumble.
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