Bo Xilai

Chinese Communist "princeling" Bo Xilai, expected by many to take a key leadership position in the leadership transition of 2012, was expelled from the Communist Party in September after a career that saw him as Mayor of Dalian City, Minister of Commerce and Party Chief of the Chongqing municipality. His wife Gu Kailai received a suspended death sentence in August 2012 for murdering British business partner Neil Heywood.

Surviving Bo Xilai's reign of red terror

22 Dec 2012

On a two-hour flight from Beijing to Chongqing early this month, Ren Jianyu spent most of the time with his face pressed against the window, watching the clouds streak past. At one point he...

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Inside Bo Xilai's dungeon: victims reveal ruthless torture

19 Dec 2012

In the first of a four-part series, Revisiting Chongqing, we look at one of the earliest and most high-profile victims of the disgraced party chief's crackdown on so-called gangsters.

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The best way to handle Snowden's case is to help him move to a third country

17 Jun 2013

Snowden's arrival in Hong Kong may have been a PR coup for Beijing, but they will probably be happy to see the back of him.

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Chinese media question Bo Xilai's pet project - Dalian's mounted policewomen

31 May 2013

Days after a retired policeman publicly called for the abolition of a pet project by disgraced Communist Party leader Bo Xilai, media outlets have focused on the project, raising sharp questions...

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Dalian may disband Bo Xilai's mounted policewomen unit

27 May 2013

Debate over the fate of the municipal all-women mounted police force arose after a former Dalian police officer said running the near two-decade-old force was a “waste of taxpayers' money”.

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Chongqing presses on with cheap housing

25 May 2013

Chongqing's ambitious programme of building affordable housing, launched by its disgraced former chief Bo Xilai, has fallen far short of its targets. Yet the city, which is running a massive...

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Former Chongqing deputy police chief Tang Jianhua given suspended death sentence

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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Tributes made to teacher of Bo Xilai as she dies at 92

Guan Minqing, a teacher for several of China's first-generation princelings, including Bo Xilai, has died on Wednesday in Beijing at the age of 92.

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Shedding some light on the dark world of party discipline

In China's uphill battle against rampant corruption, no other Communist Party agency evokes more fear among officials than the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the country's...

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'Corruption probe' general helps pen defence book

General Xu Caihou, a former vice-chairman of the Communist Party's Central Military Commission - the top body that commands the country's armed forces - wrote a preface for a book authored by Wang...

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China news round-up: activist wants Bo Xilai exiled, netizens react to graft trial

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Chongqing showing Hong Kong it's back in business after Bo scandal

Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan will lead a large business delegation to Hong Kong early next week to attract new investment as the mainland city seeks to rebound from the scandal-tainted era of its...

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