Chinese Officials

3 Mar 2013

Many families have their black sheep but few have triggered so much public anger and hostility as the 17-year-old son of celebrity PLA singer Li Shuangjiang being held by police as one of five...

7 comments

The new spirit of austerity

28 Feb 2013

Kong Guoqing blames the vanished Kweichow Moutai sales on incoming president Xi Jinping's crackdown on extravagant spending by officials: Kweichow Moutai's sorghum spirit can fetch US$300 a bottle...

Public anger over case of son of general accused of rape

25 Feb 2013

Four of the five detained suspects, who are accused of raping a young woman on February 17, are minors, the Beijing Morning Post reported yesterday. This includes Li Guanfeng, son of Li...

2 comments

Officials chided for taking too many days off for Lunar New Year

19 Feb 2013

Long holidays can sometimes be too much of a good thing – as officials from Gansu and Hunan provinces are now learning.

Briefs, February 18, 2013

18 Feb 2013

The top official overseeing anti-corruption efforts in Chongzhou, Sichuan, killed himself yesterday morning by jumping from his office in the headquarters of the city's prosecution department, an...

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

China Digest, February 18, 2013

Sales of consumer goods totalled 1.7 billion yuan (HK$2.09 billion) for the week-long Lunar New Year holiday in Lanzhou, a 21 per cent increase from the holiday last year, Xinhua reports, citing...

New year banquet givers caught out by the new frugality

A year ago, mainland developers were busy wining and dining government officials at five-star hotels before the Lunar New Year.

Clear evidence obscures truth of Beijing's pollution data

With Beijing only now recovering after spending much of January blanketed under life-threatening levels of toxic smog, reports that officials may soon be graded according to their performance at...

3 comments

CORRUPTION

Multiple identities: a recurring theme in Chinese corruption

With an impending graft crackdown hot on their heels, increasing numbers of Chinese officials are being caught in possession of “multiple identities”.

SHANXI

Shanxi investigates disciplinary official for double hukou

Zhang Yan, an official with Yuncheng city’s Commission for Discipline Inspection, was found to have illegally registered more than one household registration permits.

CORRUPTION

Beijing bribery cases up in 2012

Zhang Guoying, director of the anti-corruption office of the Beijing Municipal Procuratorate, told the Beijing People's Congress yesterday that municipal prosecutors had handed 1,883 graft cases...