Escape plan of blind activist detailed

On a moonless night on April 22, blind activist Chen Guangcheng began his mad dash from Dongshigu village.

Status symbol for China’s rich: Mistresses

Public outrage grows over cheating spouses, who include top officials

Coca-Cola apology as drinks canned

Production line shut down at Shanxi plant after chlorine-tainted beverages went out to customers

How to avoid costly fees and enjoy the view

Big increases in entrance charges to scenic sites spark online tips on doing the sightseeing free

Investors take stock of Bo saga

Foreign players head to Chongqing to seek assurance as well as opportunities in the wake of former party chief’s fall from grace

Shandong officials must pay in Chen Guangcheng case

Blind activist’s daring escape highlights need for mainland leaders to accede to his cause and case

Supply of cheap foreign labour drying up

More demanding higher pay; companies going further afield to recruit

Bo's wife dressed as Chinese army general after Heywood death

A woman at the centre of China's biggest political scandal in two decades, wife of deposed political leader Bo Xilai, had once dressed as a military commander last year in a bizarre episode that shines new light on the collapse of Bo's inner circle.

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陈光诚向温总理提出三个要求

Bo Xilai Is Said to Have Spied on Other Top Officials

When Hu Jintao, China’s top leader, picked up the telephone last August to talk to a senior anticorruption official visiting Chongqing, special devices detected that he was being wiretapped — by local officials in that southwestern metropolis.

Hong Kong Probes $2.5 Million Payment in Kwok Case

Hong Kong's anti-graft agency is looking into payments totalling more than US$2.5 million to a former top public servant as part of the city's corruption investigation involving two billionaire brothers who run Asia's largest property developer.

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Statement from Bo Guagua to The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Kennedy School student Bo Guagua corresponded with Crimson staff writers Hana N. Rouse and Justin C. Worland on Tuesday via his Kennedy School and Google email accounts and sent The Crimson a statement, which is published verbatim below.

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Chinese students beaten, robbed in Australia

Australia, land of racists.

Australia's Mandarin-speaking ex-leader Kevin Rudd on Tuesday weighed into the case of two Chinese students who were burned and beaten in Sydney, sparking a media storm in their homeland, reports said.

Probe into Bo family’s Hong Kong links

Beijing sends task force to investigate allegations the disgraced former party boss has assets hoarded here

Review of jail term cut for good conduct

A longstanding scheme that gives prisoners an automatic and unconditional one-third reduction of their jail term for good conduct is set to be replaced, in a move to cut down the number of convicts who keep returning to a life of crime.

Showflats to show fact, not fiction, come May

Developers will have to provide drawn-to-scale plans, inform buyers of changes

After Scandal, China Takes a Moral Inventory

Pleading with mafiosos who had cornered him while he was on a study tour of Italy, Wang Lijun, the former police chief of the Chinese city of Chongqing whose dramatic bolt to a U.S. consulate in February set off China’s biggest political crisis in two decades, explained his mission.

Disgraced Chinese Official’s Loyalists Are Rounded Up for Questioning

Officials in critical Communist Party and government posts in Chongqing who are considered loyalists of Bo Xilai, the city’s deposed party chief, are being detained as part of the wide-ranging investigation into Mr. Bo and his family, according to a Chongqing official and other people with knowledge of political appointments in the city.

Flamboyance of Bo’s son ‘a factor in family’s fall’

His antics are said to have angered leaders of Communist Party

Brazen and eccentric, the cop at centre of China scandal

The raucous diners in a hilltop restaurant in southwest China ignored a waiter’s request to quieten down after a complaint from a petite woman at a nearby table.