Lisa Huang

A thief was caught red-handed by security on Aug. 23 in the Hanyang District, of Wuhan in central China’s Hubei Province and was then tied up for nearly five hours for pillory, according to the Wuhan Evening News.

Taiwanese stone carver Zhang Quan displays his artwork at a roadside in Penghu. He carves poetry, songs, inspirational quotes, and children’s rhymes into stones. But none of these pieces are for sale; instead, Zhang gives them away to passersby with whom he senses a “predestined” relationship.

Even though the exam is traditionally viewed as a crucial gateway to higher education and good job prospects, the number of students taking it has hit a record low this year.

There is new evidence that Gu Kailai, the wife of disgraced former Chinese Communist Party politician Bo Xilai, was involved in selling the organs of prisoners of conscience.

Officials sent at least 3,000 riot police to stop a mass protest in southern China recently, after villagers took to the streets to try to block a power plant that they said would destroy fishing off the coast.

Tang Baiqiao, former classmate of Bo Xilai’s eldest son Li Wangzhi, fears for the safety of his old school friend, and recently urged him to leave China during a television interview.