Chinese police rescued 92 abducted children and detained 301 suspects in the latest operation to crack down on the country’s chronic problem of child trafficking, the Ministry of Public Security said.

Chinese police have accused GlaxoSmithKline of channelling bribes to Chinese officials and doctors through travel agencies to boost sales illegally and raise the price of its medicines.

Chinese police have broken a crime ring that passed off over $1m (€762,380) in rat and small mammal meat as mutton, authorities said, in a food safety crackdown that coincides with a bird flu outbreak and other environmental pressures.

Chinese police have broken up a criminal ring accused of taking meat from rats and foxes and selling it as lamb in the country’s latest food safety scandal.

A surge in the dumping of dead pigs upstream from Shanghai — with more than 2,800 carcasses floating into the financial hub — has followed a police campaign to curb the illicit trade in sick pig parts.

A Chinese police crackdown on illegal pork sales has resulted in mass dumping of dead pigs in Shanghai’s river, more than 2,800 carcasses floated into the city in just one day.

An armed robber suspected of killing nine people has been shot dead by police in China, authorities said today.

Police in China have arrested 802 people on suspicion of child trafficking and rescued 181 youngsters in a massive operation spanning 15 provinces.

Beijing plans to ban people convicted of food safety crimes from investing in and operating related businesses as China’s government steps up measures against such violations.

Chinese police rescued more than 24,000 abducted children and women last year, some of whom had been sold for adoption or forced into prostitution as far away as Angola.

Chinese authorities have rescued 89 trafficked children and arrested 369 suspects after uncovering two trafficking gangs.

A Chinese man who spent 11 years in jail after being tortured into confessing to the murder of a man who later turned up alive has been given 650,000 Yuan (€75,584) in government compensation, state media reported today.

Police in Shanghai said today they had cracked a major child trafficking ring following the arrest of 47 suspects and rescue of 21 babies following a months'-long crackdown.

POLICE in China have begun reuniting parents with children who were abducted by child traffickers.

China launched a three-month crackdown on prostitution as part of a countrywide effort to clean up organised gang crime ahead of the communist regime’s 60th anniversary on October 1.

China says it has uncovered a criminal ring planning to kidnap athletes and others at the Beijing Olympic Games.

Chinese police have arrested two men suspected of stealing almost 51 million yuan (£3.3 million) from the bank where they worked as cashiers, state media said today.

Patients leapt from the windows of a four-storey hospital in northeastern China to escape a fire that killed at least 39 people, the government said today.

Fire swept a hospital in China today, killing at least 33 people including patients, official media said.

Code Red II has been causing sporadic disruption to the internet.

China has executed at least 43 people for drug crimes and staged mass rallies nationwide to mark a UN anti-drug day.