52,000 new cases of intellectual property rights in China
December 20th, 2011 - 5:30 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Dec 20 (IANS) Chinese courts heard 52,708 new cases of intellectual property right infringement from January to October 2011, up 42.2 percent from the same period of 2010, the ... Read more...
Posted in World |
China issues judicial rule for government transparency
August 13th, 2011 - 5:32 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Aug 13 (IANS) China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) has issued a regulation to standardise trial procedures for the country's increasing number of government information disclosure cases in a bid ... Read more...
Posted in World |
China launches whistleblower websites
February 10th, 2011 - 3:44 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Feb 10 (IANS) The Chinese can now tip off the authorities on corrupt court officials through the internet.All provincial courts have been linked to the country's apex court's website, designed to ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Three American troops die in central and northern Iraq
January 15th, 2011 - 7:40 pm ICT by BNO News
BAGHDAD (BNO NEWS) -- Three American service members were killed in two separate incidents in central and northern Iraq on Saturday morning, the U.S. military confirmed, but few details were immediately released.A ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Over 4,000 Chinese arrested for copyright violations
January 12th, 2011 - 5:23 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, Jan.12 (ANI): Over 4,000 people have been arrested for violating intellectual property rights (IPR) since last October 2010, a senior Chinese Government official has said.Gao Feng, Deputy Director of the Economic ... Read more...
Posted in World |
China to overturn death sentences if evidence obtained through torture
January 10th, 2011 - 4:20 pm ICT by ANI
Beijing, Jan 10 (ANI): China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) would reportedly overturn death sentences in cases where evidence was collected by illegal means in a bid to limit applications for capital punishment ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Commercial disputes with foreign nation flood Chinese courts
December 19th, 2010 - 2:04 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, Dec 19 (IANS) The US is among the five nations that have the most civil and commercial disputes with China, a senior official of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) said. A ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Chinese porn industry in crisis after crackdown
November 11th, 2010 - 6:41 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Nov 11 (ANI): The Chinese government's anti-porn campaign starting from last year end, seems to be yielding the desired results - the industry is struggling.According to a report in the ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
China removes 13 economic crimes from capital punishment list
August 24th, 2010 - 11:59 am ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Aug.24 (ANI): The National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee in China has reportedly dropped the death penalty for 13 economy-related non-violent crimes."The amendment focuses on limiting the death penalty by ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Missouri soldier killed in Afghanistan attack
May 15th, 2010 - 11:50 pm ICT by BNO News
WASHINGTON, D.C. (BNO NEWS) -- A U.S. soldier from Missouri was killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, the U.S. Department of Defense confirmed on Saturday.Spc. Denis D. Kisseloff, ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Mizoram government employees to get pay hike (Lead)
December 4th, 2009 - 5:47 pm ICT by IANS
Aizawl, Dec 4 (IANS) Mizoram Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla announced that the government will implement the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission (SPC) for its 50,000 employees with retrospective effect from January ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Mizoram government employees to get pay hike
December 4th, 2009 - 5:13 pm ICT by IANS
Aizawl, Dec 4 (IANS) Mizoram Chief Minister Lalthanhawla announced that the government will implement the recommendations of the Sixth Pay Commission (SPC) for its 50,000 employees with retrospective effect from January 2006.
"In ... Read more...
Posted in Business |
Debbie Schlussel calls for ban on single mothers in the military
November 26th, 2009 - 3:31 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Nov 25 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a statement that is going to raise a big debate, Debbie Schlussel has recently called for a ban on single mothers in the military because ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Alexis Hutchinson Denies Deployment To Afghanistan For Her Son
November 17th, 2009 - 7:30 pm ICT by GD
By Meena Kar
Savannah, GA., Nov.17, (THAINDIAN NEWS) 21 year old Specialist Alexis Hutchinson who is a cook of the US Army was recently arrested as she did not appear in deployment ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Criminals in Beijing to get lethal injection instead of gunshot
June 16th, 2009 - 5:18 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, June 16 (ANI): By the end of the year all criminals sentenced to death in Beijing will receive a lethal injection instead of being executed by gunshot.A lethal injection site ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Girl doesn’t want death for father who killed her mother
March 19th, 2009 - 2:04 pm ICT by IANS
Beijing, March 19 (Xinhua) The 10-year-old daughter of a man who killed his wife two years ago in China's Henan province has written a letter to a court pleading for a reprieve ... Read more...
Posted in World |
