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1. News - China - CRIME

   Trial has made return home harder for Bo Guagua

   Posted Aug 30th 2013, 12:00am by Teddy Ng

   ... Teddy Ng teddy.ng@scmp.com Evidence suggesting Bo Xilai's son benefited from illicit payments to powerful parents will likely keep him overseas for foreseeable future Trial has made return harder for Bo Guagua The dramatic trial of disgraced former Politburo member Bo Xilai will likely close the book on his once-promising political career. But one aspect of the saga remains ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1300523/trial-has-made-return-home-harder-bo-guagua
2. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   Why Bo Xilai won't go quietly

   Posted Aug 30th 2013, 12:00am by Minxin Pei

   ... Minxin Pei Minxin Pei says the relative openness of Bo Xilai's trial could have been the work of allies wishing to aid his fight for a political comeback. Indeed, such hopes may have inspired his feisty performance Down - and out? As show trials go, the drama featuring Bo Xilai , the once-swaggering, media-savvy former Communist Party chief of Chongqing , veered anomalously ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1300394/why-bo-xilai-wont-go-quietly
3. News - China - CRIME

   Critics warn the public not to fall for Bo Xilai’s oratory flair

   Posted Aug 27th 2013, 01:17pm

   ... life.   “I would have given Wang a good trashing,” the Beijing-based economist Jin Yanshi wrote in a microblog post. “Bo Xilai’s political ideas were based on Mao Zedong, but his politics were ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1299696/critics-warn-china-public-not-fall-bo-xilais-narrative
4. News - China Insider - Live blog

   Bo Xilai's trial (day 5): Wang Lijun defected after exposure of illicit relationship with Gu Kailai, says Bo

   Posted Aug 26th 2013, 08:05am by Staff Reporter

   ... to release Bo's final statement.  3.16pm: The prosecution replies that the witnesses had no motive in framing Bo Xilai. The prosecution again lists the various witnesses and says ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1299447/bo-xilais-trial-day-5-wang-lijun-defected-after-exposure-illicit
5. News - China

   China's leaders fear Bo comeback if sentence is not harsh

   Posted Aug 28th 2013, 11:29am by Reuters in Beijing and Shanghai

   ... their view became even more positive. "From a common sense judgment there is no evidence against Bo Xilai, and so the leadership's dilemma is what to do," said Bo Zhiyue, a senior ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1300030/chinas-leaders-fear-bo-comeback-if-sentence-not-harsh
6. News - China Insider - POLITICS

   Bo Xilai trial's love triangle and corruption talk gives way to jokes and puns

   Posted Aug 27th 2013, 09:28pm by Chris Luo

   ... the trials. A joke on Sina Weibo reads: A boss yells at his subordinates for not copying him when they send out important internal e-mails. “Do you know what triggered Bo Xilai’s downfall? ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china-insider/article/1299861/bo-xilai-trials-love-triangle-and-corruption-talk-gives-way-jokes
7. News - China - BO XILAI TRIAL

   Corruption follows well-tested pattern

   Posted Aug 28th 2013, 12:00am by Zhang Hong

   ... not satiate the family's desire for more, prosecutors at his trial said. They accused Bo Xilai of taking bribes worth more than 21 million yuan, including a luxury villa in Nice, France. He ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1299972/corruption-follows-well-tested-pattern
8. News - China

   Prosecutor demands severe punishment as Bo Xilai trial ends

   Posted Aug 26th 2013, 03:38pm by Reuters

   ... the past few days of the trial, the accused Bo Xilai has not only flatly denied a vast amount of conclusive evidence and facts of his crimes, he has also repudiated his pre-trial written testimony ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1299481/bo-trial-ends-china-prosecutor-demands-severe-punishment
9. News - China - POLITICS

   Top party meeting called as Bo Xilai trial ends

   Posted Aug 28th 2013, 12:00am by Teddy Ng

   ... Bo Xilai. The decision to hold the third plenary session of the party's Central Committee in November was made at a Politburo meeting chaired by party general secretary Xi Jinping. ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1299981/top-party-meeting-called-bo-xilai-trial-ends
10. News - China - CRIME

    Bo Xilai trial reveals intriguing cast of characters benefitted from ties to family

    Posted Aug 25th 2013, 07:41pm

    ... spread their largesse from Europe across to Africa and the United States – often for the benefit of Bo Xilai’s pampered son, Bo Guagua – and rewarding friends and acquaintances along the way. ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1299298/bo-xilai-trial-reveals-intriguing-cast-characters-benefitted-ties-family

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