1.   A senior official in southern Guangdong Province was executed Thursday for embezzlement and accepting bribes, in a case that has drawn criticism from Western human rights groups.

2.   He is charged with embezzlement, influence peddling and accepting bribes.

3.   The Hebei legislature last month stripped them of their seats, Zhang for alleged economic misdeeds and Cong for allegedly accepting bribes as well as other graft.

4.   This would at least reduce the temptation of accepting bribes or other payoffs from tax evaders, Espiritu said.

5.   Three company directors and one senior official were sentenced to death for embezzlement and accepting bribes.

6.   They were subsequently arrested by Jakarta police and have been charged with perjury and accepting bribes, after allegedly confessing to accepting cash from Syarief.

7.   Two have been charged with perjury and accepting bribes.

8.   Opel employees are suspected of accepting bribes from construction and other companies in the form of private building work, travel or money.

9.   Police last week detained one of the other guards, Rahmat Hidayat, on charges of perjury and accepting a bribe to give false evidence.