Search results

1. News - China

   Hotel-style prison awaits China’s Bo Xilai

   Posted Sep 22nd 2013, 04:25pm by AFP

   ... continued support among the party elite -- would ensure his comfort, the former inmates said. “Bo Xilai won’t be mistreated... he will have long periods to breathe the outside air and to communicate ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1315259/hotel-style-prison-awaits-chinas-bo-xilai
2. News - China

   Chinese media calls court case a landmark

   Posted Aug 25th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... of sensitive cases." It described the Weibo postings as a "live feed" and said it "served as an important guarantee of a fair trial for Bo in accordance with the law". ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1299252/chinese-media-calls-court-case-landmark
3. News - China

   Bo Xilai and Neil Heywood’s French connection

   Posted Aug 22nd 2013, 09:29pm by AFP

   ... in Chinese prosecutors’ corruption case against fallen political heavyweight Bo Xilai on Thursday. Nestled on a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean, the six-bedroom villa was once managed by close associates of Bo, including British murder victim Neil Heywood, French court documents show. I was completely unaware of the Nice property and the whole process was made up Bo Xilai According ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1298635/bo-xilai-and-neil-heywoods-french-connection
4. News - China

   Leadership seeks smooth finale to Bo Xilai drama

   Posted Jul 26th 2013, 05:25pm by AFP

   ... Agence France-Presse in Beijing The trial of China’s fallen political star Bo Xilai, expected next month, will be the final step in a downfall carefully stage-managed over the past year by a leadership seeking to reassert the stability he spectacularly upended. Bo is the country’s highest-profile leader to face trial in decades, indicted for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1291325/leadership-seeks-smooth-finale-bo-xilai-drama
5. News - China

   Bo Xilai trial not until March, says Chinese state media

   Posted Jan 28th 2013, 08:13pm by AFP

   ... not received any news that the Bo Xilai case will be heard in Guiyang.” Bo, the former party chief of the southwestern metropolis of Chongqing, is likely to face multiple charges including taking ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1138044/bo-xilai-trial-not-until-march-says-chinese-state-media
6. News - China

   Bo Xilai appoints lawyers for trial

   Posted Jan 18th 2013, 08:47pm by AFP

   ... and Wang Zhaofeng, both partners at the Deheng Law Offices in Beijing, represent him at his trial, the lawyers’ secretaries confirmed to reporters. “(Li) is Bo Xilai’s lawyer, appointed by family ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1131159/bo-xilai-appoints-lawyers-trial
7. News - China

   China police guilty of Heywood murder cover-up: official

   Posted Aug 20th 2012, 03:49pm by AFP

   ... charged with his murder, an official said Monday. The men were accused of trying to protect the spouse of Bo Xilai, who was one of China’s most senior leaders until his downfall earlier this year in a political scandal that has shaken the ruling Communist party. All four were senior police officials in Chongqing, the southwestern Chinese megacity that Bo ran until he was sacked in March, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1019251/china-police-guilty-heywood-murder-cover-official
8. News - China

   Former Chongqing deputy police chief Tang Jianhua given suspended death sentence

   Posted May 15th 2013, 07:23pm by AFP

   ... Lijun, Chongqing’s police chief and right-hand man to Bo, who was then the Communist Party chief in the metropolis. Bo fell last year in the party’s biggest scandal for years, which came to light ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1238358/former-deputy-police-chief-tang-jianhua-given-suspended-death-sentence
9. News - China

   One year on, Bo Xilai scandal haunts Chongqing

   Posted Feb 06th 2013, 07:59pm by AFP

   ... the reign of disgraced leader Bo Xilai. Symbols of Bo’s time in power have been erased from the city he ruled as Communist Party chief, but media reports on his wrongdoings say little of his links with leaders of the party in which he was once a rising star. The scandal began to emerge on February 6, when Wang Lijun fled to a US consulate seeking asylum after falling out with his patron Bo, now ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1144701/one-year-chinas-bo-scandal-haunts-chongqing
10. News - China - POLITICS

    Heywood was spying on Bo Xilai for MI6, says Wall Street Journal

    Posted Nov 07th 2012, 12:00am by AFP

    ... friends and current and former British officials. The revelation that Heywood was murdered brought down power politician Bo and revealed rifts among top leaders as they negotiated a once-a-decade ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1076572/heywood-was-spying-bo-xilai-mi6-says-wall-street-journal

Pages