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 ...
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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 ...
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More like this May 17 2013, 3:08pm CDT
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 ...
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More like this May 16 2013, 12:45am CDT
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 ...
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More like this May 15 2013, 11:27pm CDT
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 ...
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More like this May 15 2013, 8:07pm CDT
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 ...
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More like this May 15 2013, 6:42am CDT
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 ...
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More like this May 15 2013, 6:23am CDT
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 ...
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More like this May 14 2013, 10:04am CDT
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 ...
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More like this May 14 2013, 3:23am CDT
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 ...
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More like this May 13 2013, 9:27pm CDT