China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief

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China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief

Charles E Hill

Tue Jul 10 14:04:58 -0700 2007

Politics.

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In a follow-up to the article posted on May 29th, China has followed through on the death sentence of a former director of its food and drug agency. He was executed today.

Zheng's death sentence was unusually severe even for China, which is believed to carry out more court-ordered executions than all other nations combined, and indicates the communist leadership's determination to confront the country's dire product safety record.

Zheng, 63, was convicted of taking cash and gifts worth $832,000 when he was in charge of the food and drug agency.

He was sentenced to death on May 29 and his appeal was rejected on June 12 by the Higher People's Court of Beijing. China's Supreme Court approved the sentence, saying Zheng "committed vile crimes and caused extreme harm to society."

China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief

President4242

Tue Jul 10 14:37:47 -0700 2007
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I hope this is more than just for show. I hope it does FAR more than indicate determination to confront the dire product safety record- I hope it's just the first of many executions.

China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief

computersareevil

Tue Jul 10 17:00:08 -0700 2007
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Let's hope they do spammers next, and let's hope the U.S. follows it's own example and allows extradition of spammers who have never set foot nor server in China. (OK, maybe not that latter part...)

China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief

President4242

Tue Jul 10 17:52:23 -0700 2007
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Nah, just send them to Texas....

China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief

Alan

Tue Jul 10 17:55:09 -0700 2007
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Let's hope they do spammers next
Register of Known Spam Operations
"Many of these spam operations pretend to operate 'offshore' using servers in Asia and South America."
of 131 Spam Operations as at 7/11/07:
Five are based in China:
emailspidereasy.com, Hong Chen / YonHen Internet Marketing Center, Jiang Ke / 123 Hidden Sender, JingJing Wang, Trafficmagnet.
85 are based in the USA:
Alan Ralsky, Ameritech Advertising / Scott Ramaglia, Andrew Chandler / Chat Radio, Andria Petito / Tranzact Media, Bill Waggoner, BlueStream Media, Boris Mizhen, Brian Haberstroh / Atriks, Brian Kramer / Expedite Media Group, Brian McDaid - Global Prosperity Group / DrHGH / greeneyed media, Brian Walter, Bubba Catts, Calvin Ho / Optin Global Inc., Charles Earle IV - World Mail Direct, Charles F. Childs / Ultra Trim / MegaTrim / Grant Gold, Chris Smith / rizler.com, Christopher J. Brown / Swank AKA Dollar, Chuck An / iomega, Dan and Rosalee Young / JDR MEDIA, Daniel Khoshnood, Daniel Lin, Dave Patton / lightspeedmarketing, Dean Schlenker - eGo Direct Mail / Cyberside Marketing, Drew Auman / thebulkclub.com, Eddie Davidson, Eddy Marin - Oneroute, elogic.cc, Eric Reinertsen, EvoClix / Larry Tasman / Greg Numark, eXcuria - inkjet cartridge spammers, fairgamemail.us, Fred Lusky and Scott Maslowe / Netbenders and Lakeshore Development, Gaven Stubberfield, George Kokinos / Miles Marketing, George Ryan, Georgi Kara Yacoubain, Glen and Stacey McCausland, Glen Hannifin, Henry Perez, hispeedmedia.com / adprosolutions.com, Howard Minsky / TheAdStop.com / ad360.com, James Botkin, Jared Dingwerth / X-press Marketing, Jason M. Pitts / AKA "J_Data" mortgage spammer, Jody Smith - Power Web Enterprises, John Cota / Great Impressions / Best Software Products, John Grandinetti / Broadvision Group, John Hites - ''Steve Sorenson'' / Advertising International, John Pirro, John Vogel, Jonathan Cosie / MH Partners, Joshua and Justin Eveloff / eroticmidnight.com, Joshua Burch - Interactive Adult Solutions / BulkEmailSchool.com, Kevin Perry / DoubleOpt LLC, Levon Gillespie / spamforum.biz, MailTrain, Mark Hanson - The Credit Repair Spammer, Matt Ferris / Acetech USA, Matt Leppala, Matt Wilner, Max Sutter / Petadoptions.com, Melle Brothers, Michael Levesque, Michael Lindsay / iMedia Networks, Mike Blaine, Patricia A. Berry-Czech / Selling with Technology, Paul Boes / boesconsulting.net, Peter Greenwood, Philip Adelberg / Interweb Hosting, Randy Forman - Dish Management, Richard Simnett - S-Infotech / Direct Media Network, Robert Soloway - Newport Internet Marketing, robotreply.com - Robert D. Williams / Brian Garvin / First Americap, Ronnie Scelson, Rusty Campbell - DesktopServer, Ryan Champion / AMR Ventures, Ryan Friesner - E-ListDirect / Ride Marketing, Sajemarketing.com / project-x.com.ua / Edward Shcherbakov, Sam Al - Bulk ISP Corp, SubscriberBASE, Tom King / Blue Pinstripes, Vendaregroup, Wiliam Dugger - Paradise Inc / netev1.com, William Stanley / Ironserver.com, Xperya Corporation / Stealth Mail Master.
Clean up your own house first.

China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief

computersareevil

Tue Jul 10 18:44:25 -0700 2007
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Why do you think I added the "extradite them to China" bit?

China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief

hal9000_sn3

Tue Jul 10 18:56:53 -0700 2007
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How about kill two birds with one stone. Extradite them to Texas, and give Texas back to Mexico.

China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief

Alan

Tue Jul 10 19:17:44 -0700 2007
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Yes, rendition allows the government to outsource torture to Egypt; why not outsource executions to China?

China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief

rubycodez

Fri Jul 13 20:38:07 -0700 2007
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List production of spam by volume and it's an interesting story. U.S. is number one (w0h00...oh wait, er, that's bad) with 20% of the spam, then China with 7.5%, then Poland 7.4% (yow! for such a relatively small country compared to #1and 2), followed by S. Korea and Italy

By continent it's Europe, Asia, then South America.

China Executes Ex-Food and Drug Chief

Alan

Fri Jul 13 22:44:10 -0700 2007
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Note however that's not "production of spam" but "spam relaying countries". I think the proportion done on behalf of US clients would be rather higher, though of course the whole point is to obfuscate he source.