Gang leader in SW China gets 20-year jail term
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A man convicted of organizing a crime gang was sentenced to 20 years in jail Thursday at a court in SW China's Chongqing Municipality.
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A centenarian monk reads the newspaper
Danwei (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Daily Sunshine November 4, 2009 Today's Daily Sunshine , a Shenzhen-based commercial paper, talked to the former abbot of Hongfa Temple ahead of his 103rd birthday on the 21st day of the 9th lunar month (November 7 this year). Master Benhuan (本焕), born in Hunan in 1907, has been a monk for 81 years and is currently director of the Shenzhen Buddhist Association. He told the newspaper...
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China Sentences Gang ‘Godmother’ to 18 Years
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A woman called the '‘godmother’' of a mafia-style gang in China’s southern city of Chongqing was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday for running underground casinos and bribing government officials.
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China sentences gang 'godmother' to 18 years jail
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A woman called the "godmother" of a mafia-style gang in China's southern city of Chongqing was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday for running underground casinos and bribing government
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Mafia 'godmother' jailed in China
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A court in China Tuesday sentenced the "godmother" of an organised crime gang to 18 years in jail after a sensational trial which gripped the nation with lurid tales of sex and corruption. The ruling by a municipal court in Chongqing was the latest in a series of trials stemming from a huge crackdown on the underworld in the southwestern city of more than 30 million.
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Female crime boss jailed for 18 years in China
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A court in southwest China sentenced the ringleader of an illegal gambling syndicate to 18 years in prison Tuesday, the latest verdict in a massive series of trials targeting organised crime. A municipal court in Chongqing convicted Xie Caiping -- sister-in-law of the former head of the city's judiciary, Wen Qiang -- of a series of crimes linked to the gambling syndicate, said the verdict, posted...
- Female crime boss jailed for 18 years in China - Sydney Morning Herald
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China sentences gang 'godmother' to 18 years jail
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A woman called the "godmother" of a mafia-style gang in China's southern city of Chongqing was sentenced to 18 years in prison Tuesday for running underground casinos and bribing government officials.
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Xujun Eberlein's Apologies Forthcoming
Danwei (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Hong Kong's Blacksmith Books has published a short story collection by Xujun Eberlein . Below is an introduction to the book by Pete Spurrier, of Blacksmith, followed by an extract from the book. Introduction to Apologies Forthcoming by Pete Spurrier It was some decade. The universities were closed. Students were at war. Poetry was banned. And the word “love,” unless applied to Mao, was...
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Gang crackdown, mob trials transfix China
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
The trials of gangs in China are exposing sordid, deep-seated connections between organized crime and corrupt officials and police in the central mega-city of Chongqing.
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China's Underworld Goes on Trial in Chongqing
Time (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
As a massive anti-corruption trial gets underway, not since Mao Zedong's wife and her fellow members of the reviled "Gang of Four" were tried in 1980 has a courtroom trial so captured the attention of the nation
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Chinese courts sentence six to death over mafia links
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Six people were sentenced to death in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Wednesday on charges of connections to organized crime, state news agency Xinhua reported.
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China sentences three to death in mafia-plagued city
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Beijing - Two courts in the south-western city of Chongqing on Wednesday sentenced three men to death after convicting them of leading organized crime rings, state media said. They were among 31 alleged members of two criminal gangs tried this week a...
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China courts sentence six to death over organized crimes
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Six people convicted in connection with organized crime gangs were sentenced Tuesday to death at two courts in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. The No. 1 Intermediate People's Court handed down death sentences to Yang Tianqing and Liu Chenghu, who were convicted of organizing a nine-member criminal gang and murder, a court statement said.
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Today's Links: Censors in Zhongnanhai, graft in Chongqing, and reactions to the Frankfurt Book Fair
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Party Elder Still Jousts With China’s Censors [NYTimes] "For nearly two decades, the Communist Party strove to wipe out the national memory of Zhao Ziyang, the reform-minded party secretary who opposed the use of force against pro-democracy protesters in 1989. So when a former aide of Mr. Zhao’s, Du Daozheng, disclosed in May that he had helped secretly record Mr. Zhao’s memoir...
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Former CCTV anchor arrested for fraud
Danwei (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Yantai Evening News October 19, 2009 Fang Hongjin, a well-known former CCTV anchor, was arrested in Xingtai, Hebei Province, late last week on suspicion of fraud. Fang, who appears on the cover of today's Yantai Evening News , stands accused of accepting payment from companies to place their products in TV dramas without following through on his promises. In 1992, Fang became the founding anchor of...