10 Feb 2012

The whereabouts of millions of yuan of assets belonging to the former Zhejiang tycoon Wu Ying, who is on death row pending a final court review, has finally been revealed, almost five years after...

7:07AM
28 Oct 2011

A former editor-in-chief of the Ministry of Land and Resources' mouthpiece newspaper was put on trial this week for taking 2.3 million yuan (HK$2.8 million) worth of bribes, state media reported...

11:13PM
3 Mar 2007

Boom town shocked after TV investor flees party's disciplinary confinement


Police are searching for a celebrity entrepreneur from booming Zhejiang province to face allegations of '...

8:17PM
12 Feb 2007

All my money is clean, declares Bense president


A renowned female tycoon from Zhejiang, who once claimed to have billions of yuan in assets, has been arrested for allegedly illegally...

6:07PM
12 Feb 2007

Wu Ying has come a long way since working as a beautician in her home city of Dongyang in Zhejiang province .


Ms Wu was born in a Dongyang village in 1981 to a construction sub-...

6:07PM
6 Jan 2007

Two men badly beat the wife of a popular challenger for a seat in a local people's congress in a Zhejiang village as the couple strolled in Huaxi at 7pm on Monday, according to locals.

1:44PM

Nearly a year after the village of Huaxi in Zhejiang province was rocked by a massive riot against the government, the target of villagers' anger - chemical factories built on illegally taken...

10:16AM

Tensions in Huaxi, Zhejiang province , are rising again after the arrest of five elderly villagers by police who tore down roadblocks around 13 chemical plants accused of poisoning the environment...

11:09PM

Local officials in Zhejiang pledged to move factories after a bloody protest, but four months later the pollution continues

10:56PM

Vice-minister says protests inevitable as country undergoes huge changes


Violent protests by the mainland's farmers are inevitable due to the country's enormous social and economic...

12:57PM

Normally, when journalists sit down to write their stories, they look at their notes. But I did not have any. They were confiscated by officials on Monday in Dongyang city , Zhejiang province ,...

3:12PM

Huaxi is a village in mutiny. Instead of going to work or school on Monday morning, thousands of people milled around its broad, paved streets and - despite the steady rain - the atmosphere was...

2:18PM

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