Bo Xilai

On Hong Kong Shelves, Illicit Dirt on China Elite

Source: CNBC

Visitors from mainland China climb the narrow stairs to a cramped room here filled with forbidden delights: shelves of scandal-packed exposés about their Communist Party masters. The People's Recreation Community bookstore and several others on Hong Kon ...
Full article at: CNBC  More like this  5 days ago, 3:12am CDT

Under New Leader, Chongqing Moves To Lure Foreign Capital

Source: Nikkei News

CHONGQING, China (Nikkei)--The local government of this southwestern Chinese city is stepping up efforts to attract foreign capital under a new Communist Party chief seeking to take a different path from disgraced former ...
Full article at: Nikkei News  More like this  May 17 2013, 3:08pm CDT

What Makes Narendra Modi a Middle Class Hero?

Source: The New York Times

Sam Panthaky/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Narendra Modi addressing an election rally in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on Dec. 20, 2012. As India’s middle class grows in number and political clout, it has found a new hero in Gujarat’s chief minister, Narendr ...
Full article at: The New York Times  More like this  May 16 2013, 12:45am CDT

IHT Rendezvous: Two Maos, and Two Views of China’s Past

Source: The New York Times

BEIJING — The spirits of two men called Mao are abroad in China, representing two dramatically different political views – nascent parties, perhaps – in a one-party state. Recently, there has been open hostility between the two camps, as I report i ...
Full article at: The New York Times  More like this  May 15 2013, 11:27pm CDT

Chinese Government Bans Seven ‘Speak-Not’ School Subjects

Source: Global Voices Online

A prominent Chinese law professor recently revealed in his microblog on popular Twitter-like site Sina Weibo that the Chinese government has imposed a policy on university professors instructing them not to teach seven subjects, including freedom of th ...
Full article at: Global Voices Online  More like this  May 15 2013, 8:07pm CDT

China gives senior ex-policeman suspended death sentence

Source: Straits Times

BEIJING (AFP) - The former deputy police chief of the Chinese megacity of Chongqing has been given a suspended death sentence for bribery, a court said on Wednesday, the latest episode in the scandal that brought ...
Full article at: Straits Times  More like this  May 15 2013, 6:42am CDT

Former Chongqing deputy police chief Tang Jianhua given suspended death sentence

Source: SCMP

The former deputy police chief of the Chinese megacity of Chongqing has been given a suspended death sentence for bribery, a court said on Wednesday, the latest episode in the scandal that brought down Bo Xilai. Tang Jianhua was co ...
Full article at: SCMP  More like this  May 15 2013, 6:23am CDT

Axe falls on deputy police chief of Chongqing

Source: The Telegraph

Tang Jianhua, 51, worked his way from the bottom to the top of the Chongqing police force and was particularly praised in 2010 for spearheading the "strike black" campaign against the city's mafia. However, Mr Ta ...
Full article at: The Telegraph  More like this  May 14 2013, 10:04am CDT

Senior Chinese planning official sacked in latest corruption case

Source: Hartford Courant

BEIJING (Reuters) - A deputy head of China's top planning agency has been sacked for corruption after allegations against him were first posted online, media said on Tuesday, in the government's latest move against pervasive graft. Liu Tienan h ...
Full article at: Hartford Courant  More like this  May 14 2013, 3:23am CDT

World Briefing | Asia: China: Former Police Official Detained

Source: The New York Times

A former deputy police chief in Chongqing, Tang Jianhua, has been placed under detention in the Communist Party’s disciplinary system on suspicion of taking nearly $3 million in bribes, according to an article on Monday in the onli ...
Full article at: The New York Times  More like this  May 13 2013, 9:27pm CDT



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