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Official's eight-year trail of corruption

17 Jul 2012

Details have emerged about the corruption case against a former senior official in Inner Mongolia who was jailed for life this month for taking more than 8.17 million yuan (HK$10 million) in...

Top official accused of housing allowance abuse

6 Jul 2012

New doubts were raised yesterday about the integrity of Leung Chun-ying's cabinet members as a minister was accused of abusing a civil service housing allowance by 'cross-leasing' properties with...

Doubts over Li's death

15 Jun 2012

HONG KONG - A senior Hong Kong official said the death of dissident Li Wangyang in hospital was suspicious, after thousands of protesters marched through the city demanding justice.

Top Guangdong official caught in graft probe

18 Jan 2012

Another top official in Guangdong is being investigated over graft allegations, but analysts say the ongoing anti-corruption campaign is unlikely to target practices entrenched at the core of the...

5,000 firms shut in additives crackdown

28 Sep 2011

Beijing is hailing its efforts in the crackdown on illegal food additives, with a senior food-safety official telling state media that more than 5,000 companies have been shut down and more than 2...

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

Rural land grab protests spread

Massive clashes between hundreds of riot police and people stripped of their land at a village in Lufeng city, Guangdong, have sparked protests in neighbouring communities over land grabs.

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Official stabbed 11 times killed himself, police say

Internet users are crying foul over police claims that a Hubei anti-graft official found dead with 11 stab wounds had committed suicide.

Official's death sparks rioting in Hubei city

More than 2,000 protesters attacked the Lichuan city government's headquarters in Hubei for a fourth day yesterday after the mysterious death of a respected official during interrogation by...

Bodybuilder, official deny bribery

Hong Kong and China Bodybuilding and Fitness Association chairman Chan Siu-man and bodybuilder Chan Yun-to pleaded not guilty yesterday to offering bribes.

Mainland trumpets vegetable quality

No vegetables with excessive pesticides had been detected in exports from the mainland to Hong Kong for 14 consecutive years, Xinhua quoted an official of the Shenzhen Entry-Exit Inspection and...

Hackers copy top-secret papers

Hackers broke into a senior State Council official's computer which contained drafts of Premier Wen Jiabao's government work report for this year. They copied the report and other top-secret...