China sentenced four more people to death for involvement in ethnic rioting last year in the restive far-western region of Xinjiang, a state news agency said.

A court in western China’s Xinjiang region sentenced three people to up to 15 years in prison today in the first trials over a series of mysterious syringe attacks that led to mass protests against the local government.

A Chinese court condemned two men to death today and handed a life term to a former dairy boss in the first sentences for those involved in the country’s contaminated milk scandal.

The former Formula One racing boss in China has been sentenced to four years in jail for embezzlement, the latest person disgraced in a financial scandal in Shanghai.

A Chinese court has ordered the death sentence for two men convicted of heading gangs that bought 82 children from their parents and sold them to families in Singapore, state media reports and an official said today.

Four people held responsible in the sinking of a Chinese ferry that killed 282 people have been sentenced to prison terms of five or six years, the Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily said today.

Authorities in central China have sentenced 23 people to prison terms of up to 13 years for a Christmas fire in a disco that killed 309 people, a court official said today.