22 Feb 2013

Former Shanxi deputy party secretary Hou Wujie was jailed for 11 years in 2006 for taking 880,000 yuan in bribes, but mainland internet users discovered this week that he was released from jail...

20 Nov 2012

A Sichuan court jailed writer Li Bifeng for 12 years yesterday on fraud charges, his lawyer said.

Li's supporters said the authorities suspected he helped dissident author Liao Yiwu flee...

10 Nov 2012

A businessman who launched cyber attacks on a Hong Kong stock exchange website last year was jailed for nine months.

Tse Man-lai, 28, was earlier convicted in the District Court of two...

6 Oct 2012

A prominent Singaporean businessman began a three-month prison sentence yesterday after being convicted of having paid sex with a minor, reports said.

2 Oct 2012

A prominent critic of Cambodia's government was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for an alleged secessionist plot, dismaying rights campaigners who decried the verdict as politically...

The 15-year jail sentence handed down to former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun did little to shed light on the fate of his boss, disgraced Politburo member Bo Xilai .

A sister of Tungda Innovative Lighting's former executive directors whose bank account was used to help inflate revenue ahead of the company's listing was jailed for one year yesterday for money...

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