Canadian Sentenced to Death in Drug Smuggling Retrial
The Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in Liaoning province sentenced Canadian Robert Lloyd...
Jan 14, 2019
The Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in Liaoning province sentenced Canadian Robert Lloyd...
Dec 7, 2015
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Jan 18, 2014
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Aug 29, 2013
The long-awaited trial of fallen Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai for bribery, embezzlement and...
Aug 13, 2013
As the trial of ousted Chongqing official Bo Xilai looms, Barbara Demick at The Los Angeles Times...
Aug 6, 2013
The campaign to clean up in the aftermath of Bo Xilai’s spectacular fall from power has already seen the reexamination of hundreds of court cases and the removal of former police chief Wang Lijun’s calligraphy from...
Jul 31, 2013
Sources tell Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard of Reuters that disgraced former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai has agreed to plead guilty at a trial likely to take place within a few weeks: “Bo Xilai had initially...
Jun 2, 2013
A fire at a Jilin poultry slaughterhouse early on Monday morning killed at least 61 people, according to Xinhua: Over 300 workers were in the plant when the accident happened, survivors told Xinhua, adding they heard a sudden...
Sep 28, 2012
Together with the long-awaited announcement of a start date for the 18th Party Congress, Xinhua revealed on Friday that Bo Xilai has been expelled from the Party and will now face criminal prosecution: Investigations found that...
Jul 29, 2012
AFP reports quiet in Qidong amid a heavy police presence following Saturday’s violent protests against a planned pipeline. “People don’t dare to go out in the streets today,” said a local resident, who...
Jul 7, 2012
An online argument about environmental protests in Sichuan, which halted construction of a large molybdenum copper plant, reportedly spilled into a Beijing park on Friday. From Global Times: Wu Danhong, 33, an assistant...
Jul 2, 2012
Protesters gathered in the Sichuan city of Shifang on Monday to voice opposition to a planned molybdenum copper plant. The demonstration recalled last summer’s march against a chemical plant in Dalian, but this time...
Jun 22, 2012
As China’s top leaders decide the fate of disgraced former Chongqing party chief and one-time Politburo Standing Committee hopeful Bo Xilai, and as observers debate his legacy, Chris Buckley looks back to Bo’s...
May 25, 2012
The New York Times profiles Chinese real estate magnate Wang Jianlin, whose Wanda Group has entered into an agreement to take over U.S. cinema chain AMC Entertainment: Mr. Wang, 57, is regarded as one of the most successful...
Apr 4, 2012
Xu Ming, founder and chairman of the Dalian Shide Group and one of China’s richest people, has been detained. Xu has been linked to Bo Xilai, the recently dismissed former party chief of Chongqing and former Dalian mayor....
Jan 12, 2012
Reflecting on recent trips to Chongqing and Dalian, two of the cities where Politburo Standing Committee hopeful Bo Xilai carved out his political career, The Diplomat’s Peter Martin makes the case for Bo’s promotion...
Sep 14, 2011
While the ConocoPhillips oil spill this summer and last year’s Dalian pipeline explosion have focused attention on pollution in the Bohai Sea, its problems reach both further back and further afield. From Caixin online: 80...
Sep 2, 2011
An ongoing series at The Economist’s More Intelligent Life site searches for a new global capital, with a particular focus on London, New York, Washington DC, Beijing, Delhi and Singapore. As noted in ‘Beijing:...