China Set to Reduce Scope of Death Penalty
The AP reports that China’s National People’s Congress is likely to roll back the...
Oct 27, 2014
The AP reports that China’s National People’s Congress is likely to roll back the...
Jul 15, 2014
As of July 15, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Sep 18, 2013
Jinan Intermediate People’s court has announced that it will deliver a verdict on fallen...
Sep 9, 2013
South China Morning Post reports that the five million yuan embezzlement charge against Bo Xilai,...
Aug 29, 2013
The long-awaited trial of fallen Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai for bribery, embezzlement and...
Aug 23, 2013
The long-awaited trial of fallen Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power concluded on Monday after five days, three more than expected. The date of the verdict’s announcement has yet to...
Aug 8, 2013
As the erasure of Bo Xilai’s legacy continues and his trial for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power looms, Benjamin Kang Lim and Ben Blanchard report that division over Bo’s fate may be holding back economic and...
Aug 7, 2013
Chinese officials’ sensitivity about appearance has only intensified since sharp-eyed netizens started bringing down officials caught wearing—or even not wearing—luxury watches and other incriminating baubles. Such visible...
Aug 4, 2013
The New York Times’ David Barboza describes China’s booming trade in fake fapiao tax receipts: To begin to comprehend China’s vast underground economy, one need only visit this city’s major transportation depots and...
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...
Jul 24, 2013
Fallen Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai was formally charged on Thursday, Xinhua reports: The indictment paper was delivered to the Jinan City Intermediate People’s Court on Thursday. Bo, as a civil servant, took the...
Jul 23, 2013
Former Chongqing Party chief Bo Xilai will soon stand trial, according to South China Morning Post’s Keith Zhai and Choi Chi-yuk, to face charges including embezzling five million yuan and accepting bribes amounting...
Jun 30, 2013
Xinhua reports that a top auditor in China found that 5.8 billion yuan (US$943 million) for low-income housing had been embezzled in the past year: The goal of the project construction was reached as governmentshave allocated...
Jan 25, 2013
The South China Morning Post has poured lukewarm water on earlier reports, originating in state media, that the trial of fallen Chongqing Party Chief Bo Xilai will begin on Monday. When asked by reporters, a spokesman for...
Oct 3, 2012
A retired official in Hunan was cast into the Party’s notorious shuanggui disciplinary system in August after accusing his successor of embezzling public funds. A month later, Wang Zhongping was dead, and his family...
Aug 30, 2012
Wang Guoqiang, former party chief of a city in northeast China’s Liaoning province, has fled to the United States with his family members and, reportedly, with millions of dollars too. From BBC: Local officials said Mr...
Jul 15, 2012
Melinda Liu of the Daily Beast reports on China’s crackdown on “naked officials” leaking embezzled funds overseas. At least $50 billion is thought to have left the country this way between 1978 and 2003,...
Mar 31, 2012
Australian businessman Matthew Ng lost his appeal in China and has been sentenced to 11.5 years in prison on charges of embezzlement and corruption. Upon hearing his sentence, Ng, founder of Et-China travel company, told his...