Crackdown

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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Macau gaming stocks plunge on VIP junket operator crackdown report

7 Feb 2013

Beijing plans to launch late this month a clean-up of "triad-linked junket operators" who make a profit by bringing in mainland high-rollers to casinos in Macau and lending them money, a British...

CLSA nails custard to the wall for tongue-in-cheek report

7 Feb 2013

Whither the slither? This and other compelling questions for investors in the Year of the Snake are raised and answered in CLSA's 19th Fung Shui Index.

Workers' voice of Shenzhen takes a beating in crackdown

6 Jan 2013

Shenzhen NGO worker Su Yuan has been forced to fight for her rights after about 60 men evicted her and five colleagues from their office in August. Their ordeal was part of a seven-month Guangdong...

1,000 'Doomsday cult' members arrested on mainland

21 Dec 2012

Mainland police have arrested nearly 1,000 people in the crackdown on a Christian sect that spread doomsday rumours and targeted communist rule, state media said ahead of the supposedly Mayan-...

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Former Thai premier Abhisit Vejjajiva is to be charged with murder over the death of a civilian during the 2010 "red shirt" rallies, officials said yesterday, the first government figure to face...

Data on village homes to be shared

Criticised for moving too slowly against illegal structures on village homes in the New Territories, the Buildings Department yesterday appealed to another branch of the government for help in...

Chongqing party chief defends crackdown

Chongqing Communist Party chief Bo Xilai has defended his controversial anti-triad crackdown with fervour and revolutionary rhetoric, in a move analysts say hints at his readiness to do whatever...

New World catches fallout from crackdown

New World Development and New World China Land saw their shares fall slightly yesterday after the group confirmed that three of their sites in Beijing were listed as idle by the Ministry of Land...

Crackdown 2

Crackdown 2
(Ruffian Games)

One of the most popular Xbox 360 games to date makes a return with cooler guns, gear, vehicles and an overly friendly zombie horde. There are...

Beijing must face up to Tiananmen tragedy

Today, we mark the anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. More than two decades have passed since People's Liberation Army troops crushed China's biggest peaceful protest, causing a terrible loss...