Blast in Illegal Gambling Hall Kills 14
An explosion at an illegal gambling hall in Guizhou Province has killed 14 people, according to...
Jan 13, 2014
An explosion at an illegal gambling hall in Guizhou Province has killed 14 people, according to...
Dec 4, 2013
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Nov 8, 2013
Xinhua reports that police are holding a man in connection with Wednesday’s explosions...
Nov 5, 2013
One person has been reported killed and several injured so far in a series of explosions that went off outside the Communist Party headquarters in Taiyuan, Shanxi, according to Xinhua. Few other details have been released. From...
Oct 14, 2013
South China Morning Post’s Patrick Boehler reports the sentencing of petitioner Ji Zhongxing to six years in prison for causing an explosion at Beijing International Airport in July. The wheelchair-bound petitioner was...
Sep 18, 2013
Ji Zhongxing, who set off a homemade explosive device at Beijing Capital International Airport in...
Jul 20, 2013
Posts from a now-deleted blog attributed to accused Beijing airport bomber Ji Zhongxing appear to explain his motive for the explosion: he had apparently struggled for years to win compensation after being beaten into paralysis...
Jul 20, 2013
Chinese state media are reporting that a man in a wheelchair was injured after setting off a homemade explosive device in Beijing’s international airport today. From the Guardian: The man detonated an apparently homemade...
Dec 1, 2011
An explosive device planted outside a branch of the China Construction Bank in Wuhan reportedly killed two people and injured at least ten, the New York Times reports: Postings on the Twitter-like Weibo microblog, from people...
Oct 27, 2011
Just days after the tenth self-immolation in protest of Chinese rule in Tibet, a bomb was detonated early yesterday morning at a government building in eastern Tibet. From an AFP report: A bomb blast has ripped through a...
Jun 27, 2011
China Daily covers recent research by the Research Center for Social Contradiction, attached to the Office of Letters and Calls which handles petitions in Beijing. Their poll results illustrate problems faced by those relocated...
Jun 21, 2011
At China Real Time Report, Stanley Lubman examines the “critical disconnect” between China’s national and local governments, its historical roots, and its consequences in areas from food safety to intellectual...
Jun 12, 2011
It’s been an unsettling weekend in China, with major riots in Hubei and Guangzhou. State media is also reporting a bomb blast outside municipal office buildings in Tianjin on Friday, in which two people were wounded. From...
May 27, 2011
Charles Custer marks the 500th post on the ChinaGeeks blog in a subdued fashion, reflecting on the Jiangxi bomber Qian Mingqi and the widespread anger that has led many Chinese to sympathise with him. Originally, I had planned...
May 26, 2011
Three people have now been reported killed in the bombs set off yesterday in Fuzhou, Jiangxi. From the Toronto Star: At least three people died and seven were wounded in the blasts in the city of Fuzhou, according to state...
May 25, 2011
Three explosions outside government offices in Fuzhou, Jiangxi have injured at least five people, according to state media reports. From AP: A car exploded outside the prosecutor’s office in Fuzhou city, then 10 minutes...