China Mulls Bonus Hike for Olympic Medal Winners: China is considering increasing the cash bonus paid to its Olympic medal winners at the 2004 Summer Games, opening next month in Athens. Cash bonuses for gold, silver and bronze medal winners at the last Olympics in Sydney were 150,000 yuan (about US$18,000), 80,000 yuan (US$9,600) and 50,000 yuan (US$6,000), respectively.
US officer charged for beating Chinese: Robert Rhodes, a US border inspector, was charged on Friday with civil rights violations after the Wednesday beating of 37-year-old Zhao Yan near the famous Niagara Falls. Rhodes pepper-sprayed and struck Zhao after confusing her with suspected drug smugglers.
China Farmers Get Death for Oil Theft: A Chinese court has sentenced five farmers to death for stealing crude oil from a pipeline that ran through their county.
China domestic flight 'hijacked': China says a Chinese aircraft was hijacked on an internal flight on Monday, but that the incident had been "successfully resolved". "Fifty minutes after take-off, a young man... claimed he wanted to hijack the plane and fly to South Korea."
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