corruption
May 21, 2013
BEIJING--China's Internet is brimming with disclosures of officials collecting bribes, homes and luxury accessories as casually as they do mistresses.
May 13, 2013
BEIJING--A deputy chairman of China's top planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), is under investigation for suspected "serious discipline...
May 10, 2013
BEIJING--Noted democracy activist Liu Ping has been arrested in the latest sign of China’s intensifying crackdown on those who demand the disclosure of senior party and...
May 08, 2013
BEIJING--President Xi Jinping's crackdown on Chinese government extravagance has emptied top-end restaurants and dented the sale of expensive food and drink, putting downward...
May 04, 2013
BEIJING--China has sentenced a former provincial deputy governor to life in prison for accepting almost $2 million in bribes, the most senior official to be punished since the...
April 15, 2013
CHONGQING, China--Ren Jianyu, once a model student and loyal member of the Communist Youth League, has seen his life turned upside down because of a cartoon he found on the...
April 10, 2013
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...
April 09, 2013
HONG KONG--Nepoch Capital, a new private equity firm founded by the son of a former member of China's politburo, has launched the first 'princeling' fundraising since the new...
March 26, 2013
Editor's note: This is the 10th in a series of articles on the Communist Youth League and the officials who have used the organization as their power base. This series will...
March 17, 2013
BEIJING--China's new leader Xi Jinping pledged a cleaner, more efficient government on March 17 as the country's ceremonial legislature wrapped up a pivotal session that...
March 14, 2013
SHANGPU, China--An explosion of unrest in a south China village after a controversial sale of farmland, followed by a harsh police crackdown on villagers, has become a testing...
March 13, 2013
GUANGZHOU, China--Zhu Ruifeng has endured harassment from police and other authorities, and received calls from people threatening to kill him. But the 43-year-old operator of...
March 04, 2013
YUANGUDUI, China--For Chen Qiuyang, the new Chinese leadership that formally takes over this month can radically improve her life by doing just one thing: providing running...
February 21, 2013
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...
February 13, 2013
PUYANG, China--Occasionally, word filters out about crimes committed by enlisted personnel in China's military. But when it comes to corrupt behavior by top military officers,...
February 07, 2013
PUYANG, China--Occasionally, word filters out about crimes committed by enlisted personnel in China's military. But when it comes to corrupt behavior by top military officers,...
February 06, 2013
BEIJING--Chinese radio and television stations are to ban advertisements for expensive gifts such as watches, rare stamps and gold coins, the Xinhua state news agency said on...
January 27, 2013
BEIJING--A senior Chinese official is under investigation, a Hong Kong newspaper reported at the weekend, in a case that could represent the first time a national political...
December 13, 2012
BEIJING--China has dismissed a top official in the southwestern province of Sichuan after putting him under investigation for "serious disciplinary violations," the official...
December 05, 2012
China is experiencing its most severe economic downturn in decades, and revitalizing its economic model is critical to future prosperity—not only in China, but around the...