Bo Xilai

China trying to manage exposure of corruption online
A Chinese blogger uses the Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging service on Sina.com. (AP Photo)
BEIJING--China's Internet is brimming with disclosures of officials collecting bribes, homes and luxury accessories as casually as they do mistresses.
Senior China planner investigated in new corruption ...
Liu Tienan, deputy chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, after a news conference in Shanghai in April 2009 (AP Photo)
BEIJING--A deputy chairman of China's top planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), is under investigation for suspected "serious discipline...
China charges former rail minister with graft
Live footage of Chinese President Xi Jinping, delivering a keynote speech at the Boao Forum for Asia, is shown on a large screen at the conference's venue in Boao, Hainan province, on April 7. (Kentaro Koyama)
BEIJING--China formally charged a former railways minister, Liu Zhijun, with corruption and abuse of power on April 10, setting up the first test of newly installed President...
China's Bo not cooperating on probe, been on hunger ...
Bo Xilai meets reporters in March 2012. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
BEIJING--Disgraced former senior Chinese leader Bo Xilai is refusing to cooperate with a government investigation into him and has staged hunger strikes in protest and at one...
China court rejects damages plea from man jailed...
Fang Hong (Asahi Shimbun file phoo)
BEIJING--A Chinese man sent to a labor camp for a joke about Bo Xilai said he was awarded minimal compensation by a court on Jan. 31, in what could be a blow to others jailed...
Trial of China's Bo Xilai opens next week, says...
Bo Xilai (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
BEIJING--China's disgraced former senior politician, Bo Xilai, will go on trial next week, a Beijing-backed Hong Kong newspaper said on Jan. 25, in what would be the final act...
Political infighting continues a month after Xi...
Xi Jinping, far right, attends a ceremony in Beijing in June with Ling Jihua. (Provided by China News Service)
BEIJING—High-ranking officials have been questioned across China in an apparent anti-corruption campaign under the new leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping.
China moves to right wrongs in city Bo once ruled
Skyline of Yuzhong Peninsula with skyscrapers and high-rise buildings at the juction of the Yangtze River and the Jialing River at sunset in Chongqing, China (AP Photo)
BEIJING--With China's new leaders freshly installed in power, authorities are turning their attention to tying up loose ends in the sprawling, scandal-ridden city once ruled by ...
China's princelings come of age in new leadership
In this photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, China's new leaders, from left, Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, Wang Qishan, and Zhang Gaoli, arrive for a press conference after being elected members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 18th Central Committee of China's Communist Party at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 15. (AP Photo/Xinhua)
BEIJING--In China they are known as "princelings"--the privileged children of the revolutionary founders of the People's Republic of China. And in the generational leadership...
China targets bank executives' perks in...
Twins hoist a portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung during an anti-Japan protest march in Shenzhen in September. Mao’s portraits were widely seen during demonstrations across China in an apparent display of dissatisfaction with the current Beijing leadership. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
BEIJING--China will ban executives from state-owned banks and financial companies from spending extravagantly on cars and houses, state news agency Xinhua said, in Beijing's...
China promotes senior woman to lead financial hub...
Aerial view of clusters of modern office and residential apartment buildings along the Hai River (or Haihe River) in Tianjin, China, on July 2, 2010. Chinese government is trying to turn the city into a global financial center. (AP file photo)
BEIJING--China has promoted one of its most senior female leaders to Communist Party chief of the northern port city of Tianjin, which the government is trying to turn into a...
UPDATE: China appoints new top official for...
Sun Zhengcai (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
BEIJING--China has confirmed that rising star Sun Zhengcai has been appointed Communist Party boss for the scandal-ridden southwestern city of Chongqing, taking the old job of...
China's Xi warns party of corruption scourge
New Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping clap hands during a press event to introduce the newly-elected members of the Politburo Standing Committee at Beijing's Great Hall of the People on Nov. 15. (AP Photo)
BEIJING--China's new leader Xi Jinping is highlighting corruption as a scourge that could bring down the Communist Party, though he has yet to offer any specific new proposals...
LEADERSHIP SHIFT (10): In secret voting, Xi rose in ...
Hu Jintao, left, shakes hands with his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, at the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2007. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Editor's note: This is the 10th in a series of articles on the leadership change of the Chinese Communist Party.
Only more digging will bring us closer to truth...
Chinese President Hu Jintao speaks during a session of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party held in Beijing on Nov. 8. (Teruo Kashiyama)
An afterword from Nobuyoshi Sakajiri, chief of The Asahi Shimbun's Chinese General Bureau:
LEADERSHIP SHIFT (5): Xi maintains balance between...
Citizens gather at the home of the late Zhao Ziyang in April. (Nozomu Hayashi)
Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series of articles on leadership change of the Chinese Communist Party.
LEADERSHIP SHIFT (10): In secret voting, Xi rose in ...
Hu Jintao, left, shakes hands with his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, at the 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in 2007. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Editor's note: This is the 10th in a series of articles on the leadership change of the Chinese Communist Party.
China city repudiates popular legacy of disgraced...
Bo Xilai (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
BEIJING--The leader of the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing sought on Nov. 8 to bury the legacy of its disgraced former top official, Bo Xilai, saying the popular model...
China opens party congress to begin power transfer
Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, and former Chinese President Jiang Zemin arrive for the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 8. (AP Photo)
BEIJING--China's ruling Communist Party opened a congress on Oct. 8 to usher in a new group of younger leaders faced with the challenging tasks of righting a flagging economy...
Legal scholar: Chinese political reform will remain ...
Peking University law professor He Weifang (The Asahi Shimbun)
The Hu Jintao administration oversaw a close to fourfold expansion of China’s economy, but it also left behind a number of social contradictions, such as corruption and...