8 Feb 2013

The former party secretary of Chaohu's civil affairs bureau was sentenced to 10½ years in jail for embezzling 100,000 yuan (HK$124,400) from village coffers in 2005, when he was party chief of...

4:43AM
4 Oct 2012

ANHUI

Museum to honour spy

4:33AM
17 Aug 2012

Mainland activist Li Guizhi , who fled illegal detention in her hometown in Hebei last month after trying to attend the July 1 rally in Hong Kong, was sent to a labour camp on Wednesday, a local...

4:00AM
22 Jul 2012

Relatives of a blind activist who fled a 'black jail' where she was held after mainland authorities refused to let her enter Hong Kong for the July 1 rally have been threatened with prosecution if...

9:59PM
13 Jul 2012

A month-long probe by Hunan's provincial authorities into the mysterious death of June 4 dissident Li Wangyang has upheld the previous official verdict that the frail rights activist committed...

9:09PM
21 Feb 2012

The death penalty case of Yao Jiaxin has again attracted media attention after the parents of Zhang Miao sought 200,000 yuan (HK$246,000) in compensation from Yao's parents, eight months after he...

7:58AM

It is almost two years since a Shanxi teenager, Zhang Xuping, was sentenced to death for killing the much-feared and much-hated party chief of Xiashuixi village, Li Shiming.

4:33AM

Traveling the Silk Road
by Mark Norell, Denise Patry Leidy and the American Museum of Natural History
Sterling Signature

3:05AM

Jakii Zhu is among a growing number of women in China who are finding their paths to happiness and financial independence through hard work and a good education rather than a marriage certificate...

10:29PM

A fireman turned quality-control worker who imprisoned six young women in his basement for almost two years, treating them as sex slaves and killing two of them, had been detained in Henan,...

8:15PM

A tutor who grabbed the hands of two little girls outside a Kowloon Tong kindergarten to 'satisfy his desire to be a father' has been put on probation for two years.

3:22PM

The Chinese opera troupe performs: Wu Zetian: Usurper to the Tang Throne (starring Wu Jingjing, left), a historical play about Wu Zetian who became the only female emperor in Chinese history, Jul...

1:51PM

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