China sentences Web porn king to life in prison
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A Chinese court sentenced the founder  of the country's largest pornography Web site to life  imprisonment on Wednesday and jailed another eight of the  site's organizers, state media reported.
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China sentenced the former head of its food and drugs agency to death for corruption on Tuesday in a surprise judgment as the government sought to contain a wave of scandals over health safety.
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A Chinese research assistant for The Times served three years in prison on a conviction that sparked outrage.
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China is stepping up its hard line against internet pornography by threatening life imprisonment for anyoner caught peddling porn.
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Beijing, Sept 30. (PTI): A 22-year-old university information technology student and another college student in east China&#39;s Zhejiang province have been sentenced by Chinese courts for operating pornographic
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China sentenced a man to life in jail  on Thursday for running what state media called the country's  biggest ever pirate film disc smuggling ring.
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China beefed up its ongoing crackdown on internet porn on Monday with new rules published that allow courts to issue life sentences to those convicted of posting pornography online.
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A Chinese mine boss has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison in the beating death of a reporter, a court official said Thursday, a high-profile case that prompted an unusual intervention by President Hu Jintao.
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The former director of Chinaâs top food and drug safety agency was sentenced to death on Tuesday after pleading guilty to corruption and accepting bribes.
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A Czech man is jailed for 11 years for advertising on the internet for someone to kill his older wife.
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A tycoon who was the youngest person on Forbes magazine's list of China's 400 richest people last year was sentenced to life in prison for fraud.
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Actor Chris Langham is due to be sentenced for downloading indecent videos of children from the internet.
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Chinese makers and distributors of pornographic materials sent through the Internet, mobile phones and other communication devices will face penalties as severe as life in prison under new rules that take effect Monday.
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The former president of the Philippines, Joseph Estrada, was sentenced to life in prison today after he was found guilty of corruption.
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A Chinese company chairman is sentenced to death for running a scam involving giant ants.
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A JAPANESE court has sentenced a self-employed man to a one year suspended jail term for allowing free downloads of two popular Hollywood films through a popular file-sharing software program.
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TOKYO - A man arrested last year on copyright charges for disseminating films on the Internet was given a three-year suspended sentence Tuesday - averting a jail term in one of the first crackdowns on file-sharing in Japan.