U.S. Businessman on Trial for Mob Crimes
U.S. businessman Vincent Wu, who has been detained in China since 2012, stood trial in Guangzhou...
by Cindy | Feb 10, 2014
U.S. businessman Vincent Wu, who has been detained in China since 2012, stood trial in Guangzhou...
by 不忘初心 | Jun 9, 2013
On June 8, a court in suburban Beijing sentenced Liu Xiaobo’s brother-in-law Liu Hui to 11 years in prison for fraud, in a case some fear is a “warning to the whole family.” From Isolda Morillo at the...
by 不忘初心 | Dec 24, 2012
A Chinese-American businessman, Vincent Wu, is facing criminal charges in China after a business dispute with Lin Qiang, a former provincial security official. Andrew Jacobs at New York Times reports: That confrontation is...
by Melissa M. Chan | Oct 21, 2012
As China and North Korea deepen their ties with Kim Jong-Un’s uncle’s visit and the hiring of North Korean guest workers in China, the New York Times reports tensions between China and North Korea seems to be on the...
by 不忘初心 | Jul 6, 2012
The imbroglio between Apple and Proview in China has been settled with an agreement fee of $60 million, which The Wall Street Journal calls “far short of the as much as $2 billion that a Proview arm had asked for in a U.S....
by Melissa M. Chan | Dec 6, 2011
An Australian businessman along with his two associates were sentenced to prison on bribery and fraud charges. The businessman, Matthew Ng, is a Chinese-born Australian whose ties with a state-owned Chinese firm had soured last...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 1, 2005
From the New York Times: David Ji, a Chinese-American electronics entrepreneur, spent two months in custody enduring all-night interrogation sessions, but his stubbornness and occasional flashes of sarcasm infuriated his Chinese captors. So in late December last year, according to a person who compiled a record of the encounter, guards emptied his pockets, removed his […]