Conviction

Claiming set-up by Bo Xilai, lawyer Li Zhuang seeks review on conviction

30 Nov 2012

Li Zhuang, a former lawyer who was jailed for fabricating evidence for a crime boss prosecuted during disgraced former Chongqing party boss Bo Xilai's anti-triad campaign, said yesterday after a...

Man gets life for killing girlfriend to get insurance cash

31 Mar 2011

An insurance salesman who drowned his girlfriend in Victoria Harbour to pocket a HK$2.8 million life insurance policy he had taken out on her by forging her signature was jailed for life yesterday...

Convicted lawyer in Chongqing triad case may face more charges

31 Mar 2011

Controversy surrounding convicted lawyer Li Zhuang last year at the height of the Chongqing triad crackdown looks set to snowball as authorities say he may face more charges for illegal acts he...

Paedophile admits abusing 6 boys

30 Mar 2011

Six boys aged as young as 11 were given cash by a 37-year-old man after engaging in sexual acts with him, a court was told yesterday.

Activists charged and ousted as noose on dissent tightens

29 Mar 2011

The crackdown on mainland activists appears to be intensifying with the formal arrest of an outspoken writer, and the ousting of a prominent opinion writer and an editor at two publications.

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The worst system corrupts its best officials

For centuries, West Lake, in the centre of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, has been universally recognised as one of China's most iconic spots, famous not only for its picturesque landscape but also for its...

Sex tapes a new weapon to smear foes

In the old days of rough-and-tumble Southeast Asian politics, political players might attempt to smear their adversaries by calling them a communist, Western lackey, Vietnamese puppet or other...

Inescapable conclusion

Twice in just over five years Hong Kong's highest courts have had to rule on conflicting accounts of Nancy Kissel's family life: was her husband a high-flying banker betrayed by the mother of his...

After breaking Japanese codes, going home proved a long and harsh road

If Chi Buzhou made a courageous and patriotic decision to return to China in 1937, he made the wrong judgment to remain in 1949.

E.M. Forster: A New Life

E.M. Forster: A New Life
by Wendy Moffat
Bloomsbury HK$143

Ex-police officer jailed for lying over illicit tapes

A former policewoman who secretly taped the conversations of undercover officers before they testified at her husband's trial has been jailed for six months for giving false evidence.