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To: RealMuLan who wrote (2706)	2/21/2004 9:12:16 AM
From: BubbaFred	Respond to of 6370

China executes top official for corruption Beijing, Feb.21. (PTI): A top county official and communist party leader has been executed in south China for bribery and for cover-up of a fatal mine accident in 2001, the state media reported today. Wan Ruizhong, former Communist Party secretary of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region's Nandan county, was convicted of taking bribes and abusing power, and executed in Nanning, capital of Guangxi yesterday following approval by the Supreme People's Court, China's apex court. Wan was also convicted of plotting to cover up a mine accident that killed 81 miners in July 2001, according to the Nanning city intermediate people's court. The deaths occurred when the county's Lajiapo mine, which was under Wan's direct jurisdiction, flooded July 17, 2001. Cover-up exposed Investigation of the accident led to the exposure of Wan and other corrupt officials in the county. The court also confiscated Wan's personal property of 500,000 yuan (about 60,000 US dollar), and his illegal income of 2.68 million yuan (323,000 US dollar) has been turned over to the national treasury. Other officials responsible for mine accidents in the area have been sentenced to death, 10 years and 13 years in prison, respectively, for their roles in similar cover-ups. hinduonnet.com

To: RealMuLan who wrote (2706)	2/22/2004 12:49:55 PM
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China Blocked North’s Nuclear Materials Imports FEBRUARY 22, 2004 22:32 The Chinese government had seized nuclear weapon manufacturing materials last summer that North Korea had planned for importation, reported Asahi Shimbun by quoting U.S. government official from Washington D.C. on Feb. 22. The confiscated material was known as liquefied Tributyl Phosphate (TBP), a solvent that is used for extracting Plutonium from nuclear fuel. According to the Japanese press, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) designated a Pyongyang bound express train that was suspected of containing TBP last summer and asked for China’s interception, following information that the North was likely to import a large volume of TBP. Chinese investigators searched the train for TBP at Liaoning’s Dandung station in vain, but finally seized TBP from another Pyongyang bound train a few days later during its probe. The CIA had already received information in December 2002 that North Korea might import approximately 20 tons of TBP from China. But it had decided not to notify China, since “China didn’t seem to want to cooperate with U.S.,” said reporters. “It is evident that the U.S. and China are cooperating under the table for the sake of a nuclear-free zone in the Korean Peninsula,” said Asahi Shimbun. “The North is likely to face a large difficulty in its move for a nuclear development plan, now that its great alliance nation began to obstruct it.” The press added that North Korea might have agreed to join the first round of six-way talks last August, since it had accepted China’s warning against importation of nuclear materials. english.donga.com