Communist Party

2 Dec 2012

Encouraged to speak out against party injustices and denounced as 'rightists' for doing so, many Chinese suffered years of torment under Mao’s brutal policies. In the first of a two-part series on...

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Top political advisory body opens first session in Beijing

3 Mar 2013

China's top political advisory body opened its first session in Beijing on Sunday, after Communist Party leader Xi Jinping took another swipe at corruption, mentioning the concept of "two 100...

Xi Jinping's campaign to purge Communist Party 'won't be easy'

21 Feb 2013

A leading communist academic on the mainland has warned that plans to downsize the Communist Party, with more than 82 million members the world's biggest political party, would not be easy to...

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Guangdong party launches scheme to eject 'unqualified' members

20 Feb 2013

Guangdong's Communist Party committee has launched a pilot programme to eject "unqualified" party members. It says the drive is in line with a recent Politburo decision to control the size of the...

Scepticism rife after Xi calls for Communist Party to accept criticism

9 Feb 2013

Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping's call for the party to accept "sharp criticism" from non-party members has evoked a flurry of online commentary - most of it swiftly deleted.

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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

Deputy director expelled from Communist Party for taking bribes

Fifty-year-old Lu Yingming joined the department only in November after spending 11 years as a deputy director of the province's Water Resources Department.

Pledge to purge 'unqualified' members of China's Communist Party

Communist Party chief Xi Jinping chaired a Politburo meeting on the cultivation of new party members yesterday, vowing to control the size of the party and purge "unqualified members" in a timely...

Hongkongers jealous of mainlanders, say city's own representatives

Hong Kong members of Guangdong's provincial advisory body were slammed as ignorant and unfit for their jobs yesterday after they were seen on television saying Hongkongers were ungrateful to the...

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CORRUPTION

Communist Party watchdog to launch 5-year war on graft

The Communist Party's disciplinary watchdog will draft and launch a five-year anti-corruption plan this year and start spot checks on senior officials' declared personal assets and particulars in...

Academic removed in China’s latest sex scandal

A Marxist theoretician has been removed as head of an important, but obscure Communist Party research institute over a sex scandal as China’s new leadership moves to end the latest, embarrassing...

OBITUARY

Leftist publisher Chak Nuen-fai dies, aged 93

When Chak Nuen-fai co-founded a printing company in the early 1960s, he did not imagine he would make history in Hong Kong - becoming one of the first people jailed in the city for breaching the...