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Corruption Nation: Why Bo Xilai Matters

last yearNews : News Desk

In December, 2006, police in the Chinese territory of Macau arrested Ao Man Long, the region’s secretary for transport and public works, who had been collecting kickbacks over a period of seven years. Investigators found that he and his family had received more than a hundred million U.S. dollars, which he had detailed in a collection of “friendship notebooks.” The indictment itemized so many individual bribes that reading it aloud at his trial took seven hours.
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Police Arrest More Than 1,000 Organized Crime Suspects in Hong Kong

News : The Coming Crisis (2 years ago)

Police arrested more than 1,000 people and seized millions of dollars worth of illicit goods during a massive anti-crime joint operation by Hong Kong, Macau and Chinese police, authorities said Thursday.Nearly 2,500 locations, inclu... Read Post

Sun journalist arrested in corruption probe

News : The Coming Crisis (9 months ago)

(Reuters) - Police arrested a journalist working for Rupert Murdoch's British Sun newspaper on suspicion of corruption on Tuesday as part of a wide-reaching investigation centred on allegations of phone-hacking by newspaper reporter... Read Post

Police Response to School Water Balloon Fight: Violence and Arrests

News : Reason (7 hours ago)

Count the overwrought responses to this incident. Enloe High School in Raleigh, N.C., called police out due o what appears to be a water balloon fight (overwrought response number one). Police arrested seven of the students (overwro... Read Post


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