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Xi Jinping on course to resurrect Mao’s ‘chairman’ role
- Asia-Pacific
- August 26, 2020, 18:00
An intensifying purge of disloyal Chinese Communist Party law and order officials is setting the stage for President Xi Jinping to become party chairm(...)

Xi Jinping’s power play leads from dusty caves to China supremacy
- Asia-Pacific
- November 23, 2018, 01:00
In the cave in Liangjiahe where the 15-year-old Xi Jinping was sent in 1969 during the ravages of the Cultural Revolution, there is a felt mattress on(...)

Interpol chief investigated for bribery, says Chinese ministry
- Asia-Pacific
- October 8, 2018, 12:18
The Chinese former head of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, who disappeared last month after a visit to China, is under investigation for accepting bribes, a (...)

Interpol head reported missing after trip home to China
- World
- October 5, 2018, 13:41
French authorities have opened an inquiry into the disappearance of Meng Hongwei, the Chinese head of international police agency Interpol, after he r(...)

Thousands of Chinese officials punished for breaking frugality rules
- Asia-Pacific
- July 31, 2018, 13:35
China’s anti-corruption watchdog has punished nearly 37,000 government officials for violating rules on frugality, and among those caught up in the gr(...)

China jails former Communist boss for life for corruption
- Asia-Pacific
- May 8, 2018, 07:29
A Chinese court has sentenced Sun Zhengcai, the former Communist Party boss of the southwestern city of Chongqing who was once seen as a rising politi(...)

Xi Jinping boosts his authoritarian rule as China’s parliament ends
- Asia-Pacific
- March 20, 2018, 10:10
As they have done for nearly seven decades, delegates at the National People’s Congress in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing will now head back (...)

China’s annual parliament reappoints Xi Jinping
- Asia-Pacific
- March 18, 2018, 16:23
China’s annual parliament has appointed Xi Jinping to a second term as leader and Li Keqiang as premier, while naming a senior official to head a new (...)

China says 1,300 fugitive graft suspects brought back last year
- Asia-Pacific
- January 15, 2018, 12:23
China’s crackdown on corruption has seen 1,300 fugitives suspected of economic crimes, 347 of them corrupt officials, returned to China from abroad i(...)

China’s former top internet czar faces corruption investigation
- Asia-Pacific
- November 22, 2017, 11:00
China’s former chief internet censor Lu Wei is being investigated for graft, the Communist Party said, becoming the latest high-profile victim of the (...)