Canadian Sentenced to Death in Drug Smuggling Retrial
The Dalian Intermediate People’s Court in Liaoning province sentenced Canadian Robert Lloyd...
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LatestMinitrue: Former Bo Xilai Ally Xu Ming Dies in Prison
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Minitrue: Aircraft Carrier Under Way in Dalian
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
Bo Xilai Trial: Reactions
The long-awaited trial of fallen Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai for bribery, embezzlement and...
Bo Xilai’s Wealth on Trial in China
As the trial of ousted Chongqing official Bo Xilai looms, Barbara Demick at The Los Angeles Times...
Scrubbing of Bo’s Legacy Continues as Trial Looms
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...
Sources: Bo Xilai to Plead Guilty
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...
More Than 60 Killed in Jilin Slaughterhouse Fire
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...
Bo Xilai Expelled from Party, Will Face Criminal Charges (Updated)
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...
Tenuous Calm After Pollution Protests (Updated)
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...
Mixed Views & Fisticuffs Over Shifang Protests (Updated)
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...
Sichuan Environmental Protest Turns Violent (Updated)
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...
Bo Xilai and The Cultural Revolution
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...
Wanda Looks West With AMC Play
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...
Chinese Billionaire Linked to Bo Xilai Detained
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....
Bo Xilai: Asset or Liability?
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...
Bohai Sea Drowns in Discharged Waste
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...
Beijing: Constant Nightmare, China's Most Liveable City, or Capital of the Future?
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:...
