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Extensive media coverage of the May 24, ten-year anniversary of the death of Xi Zhongxun, father of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping--who is slated for the office of party secretary and president this fall--signals Beijing’s right turn.

As the Qingming Festival, also known as tomb-sweeping day, drew near, a veteran who fought in the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War disclosed on bbs.tianya.cn eleven unpublished facts and opinions about what he experienced during the war.

After houses were forcibly demolished in Yihuang County, Jianxi Province, desperate residents set themselves on fire to protest. The local Communist Party secretary and the magistrate were removed from their positions; but they were reinstated elsewhere before long.

Hong Kong’s largest retail jeweler has announced an Initial Public Offering that is expected to be worth $2.8 billion when it is listed on Dec. 15.

After her father was given a sentence of life imprisonment for no proven wrongdoing, a Chinese college student advertised herself as a “mistress” to any official that is willing to uphold justice and set him free.

When a Chinese official gets busted for corruption, what does he do? Bribe his way out. A series of recent reports in the Chinese press show how convenient it is for Communist Party apparatchiks, who have been sentenced to prison, to simply pay a fee and be let out of jail on “medical parole.”

Chinese farmers in Guangdong who were sold fake seeds saw their crop output fall by hundreds of acres.