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India’s secrets are in Guangdong, China

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China, Cybercrime, Espionage, India
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Saikat Datta – March 13, 2013

A successful Chinese hacking attack has caused what is arguably the biggest security breach in India with systems of hundreds of key Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and other security officials being compromised and leading to the leak of sensitive files related to the cabinet committee on security (CCS), the highest decision-making body for security issues of the government of India.

The other stolen files recovered so far belong to the governments of the United States, Russia, and South Korea.

Chinese hackers increasingly becoming professional

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China, Cybercrime, Espionage, India
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February 25, 2013

Beijing hotly denies accusations of official involvement in massive cyberattacks against foreign targets, insinuating such activity is the work of rogues. But at least one element cited by internet experts points to professional cyberspies: China's hackers take the weekend off.

Accusations of state-sanctioned hacking took center stage this past week following a detailed report by a US-based internet security firm Mandiant. It added to growing suspicions that the Chinese military is not only stealing national defense secrets and harassing dissidents but also pilfering information from foreign companies that could be worth millions or even billions of dollars.

China’s cyber hackers drive US software-maker to brink

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China, Cybercrime
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November 30, 2012

During his civil lawsuit against the People’s Republic of China, Brian Milburn says he never once saw one of the country’s lawyers. He read no court documents from China’s attorneys because they filed none. The voluminous case record at the US District courthouse in Santa Ana, California, contains a single communication from China: a curt letter to the US State Department, urging that the suit be dismissed.

That doesn’t mean Milburn’s adversary had no contact with him. For three years, a group of hackers from China waged a relentless campaign of cyber harassment against Solid Oak Software, Milburn’s family-owned, eight-person firm in Santa Barbara, California.

China's toxic milk whistleblower murdered

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China, Food safety, Whistleblowers
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November 23, 2012

The man who first alerted authorities about melamine-tainted milk powder in mainland dairy companies has died, barely two weeks after he was attacked by unidentified men in Xi'an city. Jiang Weisuo, 44, was an operator of a dairy company in Shaanxi province. He was assaulted on November 2 after attending a company meeting.

A suspect has been detained, but the motive of the attack remains unclear, mainland media said. Unconfirmed reports claimed Jiang had been fatally injured by paid killers.

Reporter says Chinese news agency asked him to spy

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China, Freedom of the press, Media, Espionage
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The Canadian Press – August 22, 2012

A Canadian journalist says he quit working for China's news agency because it wanted him to spy on the Dalai Lama in Ottawa. But the Ottawa bureau chief of China's Xinhua news agency dismissed that claim as "Cold War" ideology.

Ottawa-based freelance journalist and author Mark Bourrie makes the allegation against the Xinhua news service in an article published in Ottawa Magazine, and in an interview with The Canadian Press.

U.S. missiles infected with Chinese fakes

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Food safety, China, National security, Defence industry, Consumer safety
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F. Michael Maloof – June 3, 2012

Fake electronic components from China have been discovered in thermal weapons sights delivered to the U.S. Army on mission computers for the Missile Defense Agency’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missiles and on military aircraft, including several models of helicopters and the P-8A-Poseidon, according to federal investigators.

Suspected electronic parts were found in the Forward Looking InfraRed, or FLIR, Systems being used on the Navy’s SH-60-B. The counterfeit parts were delivered by Raytheon, which alerted the Navy.

Chinese journalist helped bring down corrupt Communist party official

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China, Whistleblowers
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Jiang Weiping

Haroon Siddiqui – May 3, 2012

We are so multicultural that there’s usually a local angle to every major international news story. So it is with the internal turmoil roiling China.

In a compact condo in North York sits the Chinese journalist who first exposed the corrupt Communist Party boss Bo Xilai — he of the 100 mistresses fame, who has been toppled from the powerful party politburo amid the biggest leadership crisis in decades. His lawyer wife, Gu Kailai — “the Jackie Kennedy of China” — has been named a prime suspect in the murder of a British businessman.

Bo Xilai case shines light on corruption in China

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China, Corruption
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Tania Branigan – April 19, 2012

Some spirit billions out of the country, buying up luxury villas abroad; one reportedly lavished wealth on 18 mistresses; another blew a quarter of a million dollars in a two-day gambling spree.

Chinese bureaucrats may have a grey image but their ability to amass – and spend – ill-gotten gains is eye-opening. The extraordinary political scandal unfolding at the top of the party – the suspected murder of the Briton Neil Heywood by the wife of the top leader Bo Xilai – is unprecedented.

Billionaire brothers face corruption charges

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China, Corruption, Construction industry
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CBC News – March 30, 2012

Two brothers whose luxury real estate developments play a prominent part in Vancouver's skyline have been arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of corruption. Ray and Thomas Kwok were taken into custody as part of a reported wide-ranging investigation by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption.

The pair are part-owners of Asia's biggest real estate developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties. The arrests sent the company's stock plummeting, bringing about a loss of about $5 billion in value.

China Communist Party bureaucrats like their cars high end

Topics: 
China, Corruption, Government ethics
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2

Barbara Demick – January 8, 2012

Even the police are driving Porsches. Chinese officials love their cars — big, fancy, expensive cars. A chocolate-colored Bentley worth $560,000 is cruising the streets of Beijing with license plates indicating it is registered to Zhongnanhai, the Communist Party headquarters. The armed police, who handle riots and crowd control, have the same model of Bentley in blue.

And just in case it needs to go racing off to war, the Chinese army has a black Maserati that sells in China for $330,000."Corruption on wheels is an accurate description of this problem," said Wang Yukai, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Governance in Beijing, who has been advocating restrictions on officials' cars for years.

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