Tang Dynasty

China Digest, February 8, 2013

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...

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China Digest, October 4, 2012

4 Oct 2012

ANHUI

Museum to honour spy

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Thwarted July 1 marcher packed off to labour camp

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...

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Activist's relatives targeted

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...

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Probe repeats suicide verdict on Li

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...

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Death penalty case back in spotlight

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...

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Opinion

Howard Winn

Ferry companies shouldn't be subsidised while they burn dirty fuel

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Shirley Yam

What were our top officials doing to let HKMEx fail?

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A matter of life and death ... and justice

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.

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Traveling the Silk Road

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

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Single happiness

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...

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Ex-fireman held six 'sex slaves' in his basement

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,...

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Would-be father grabbed children

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.

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Jin Liansheng Gaojia Opera Troupe of Xiamen City

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...

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