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BEIJING/HONG KONG — Little is known about the exact circumstances in which Wang Shuhua was killed. What has been reported, in the Chinese media, is that she died in a road accident sometime in 2000, shortly after she was divorced from her husband. [1]

BEIJING — China’s Twitter-like weibo microblogging services have become lively forums for commenting on the events of the day in China’s otherwise tightly controlled media landscape. [2]

JINAN, China — China charged disgraced senior politician Bo Xilai with bribery, abuse of power and corruption on Thursday, paving the way for a trial that is seen by many as a test for legal reform and President Xi Jinping’s commitment to combat corr... [3]

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize. [4]

Your Thoughts … တရားရုံးထုတ်လာတဲ့ တရုတ်ကွန်မြူနစ်ပါတီရဲ့ ပေါ်လစ်ဗျူရိုဝင်ဟောင်း ဘိုရှီလိုင် (ဓာတ်ပုံ - Reuters) Your Thoughts … No Result View All Result Founded in 1993 by a group of Myanmar journalists living in exile in Thailand, The Irrawaddy is ... [5]

BEIJING — Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai goes on trial Thursday on corruption charges in a case crafted to minimize damage to the Communist Party and avoid exposure of party infighting or human rights abuses. [6]

JINAN, China — Chinese prosecutors demanded a heavy sentence for ousted top politician Bo Xilai on Monday, the fifth day of his landmark trial, saying his “whimsical” challenge to bribery, graft and abuse of power charges flew in the face of the evid... [7]

JINAN, China — Fallen Chinese political star Bo Xilai has launched an unexpectedly spirited defense at his corruption trial, fiercely denying he took $3.5 million in bribes from two businessmen and cross-examining one of them with a lawyer’s precisio... (confirmed by 2 sources) [8]

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[1] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2014-09-13 · 82% match

China Turns Up Heat on Ex-Security Chief With Crash Probe

BEIJING/HONG KONG — Little is known about the exact circumstances in which Wang Shuhua was killed. What has been reported, in the Chinese media, is that she died in a road accident sometime in 2000, shortly after she was divorced from her husband.

[2] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-07-26 · 75% match

China Microblogs Praise Bo Xilai Prosecution

BEIJING — China’s Twitter-like weibo microblogging services have become lively forums for commenting on the events of the day in China’s otherwise tightly controlled media landscape.

[3] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-07-25 · 75% match

China Charges Disgraced Politician Bo Xilai with Corruption

JINAN, China — China charged disgraced senior politician Bo Xilai with bribery, abuse of power and corruption on Thursday, paving the way for a trial that is seen by many as a test for legal reform and President Xi Jinping’s commitment to combat corr

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2021-12-16 · 75% match

Analysis: Xi plays with dynamite reviving Bo Xilai's housing policy

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize.

[5] MM burma.irrawaddy.com · 2013-08-30 · 75% match

Bo Xilai

Your Thoughts … တရားရုံးထုတ်လာတဲ့ တရုတ်ကွန်မြူနစ်ပါတီရဲ့ ပေါ်လစ်ဗျူရိုဝင်ဟောင်း ဘိုရှီလိုင် (ဓာတ်ပုံ - Reuters) Your Thoughts … No Result View All Result Founded in 1993 by a group of Myanmar journalists living in exile in Thailand, The Irrawaddy is

[6] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-08-19 · 75% match

Fallen Chinese Political Star to Be Tried Thursday

BEIJING — Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai goes on trial Thursday on corruption charges in a case crafted to minimize damage to the Communist Party and avoid exposure of party infighting or human rights abuses.

[7] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-08-26 · 75% match

At Trial, Chinese Prosecutor Demands Bo Be Severely Punished

JINAN, China — Chinese prosecutors demanded a heavy sentence for ousted top politician Bo Xilai on Monday, the fifth day of his landmark trial, saying his “whimsical” challenge to bribery, graft and abuse of power charges flew in the face of the evid

[8] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-08-23 · 67% match

Disgraced Chinese Politician Mounts Feisty Defense

JINAN, China — Fallen Chinese political star Bo Xilai has launched an unexpectedly spirited defense at his corruption trial, fiercely denying he took $3.5 million in bribes from two businessmen and cross-examining one of them with a lawyer’s precisio

[9] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-08-20 · 75% match

Despite Bo’s Trial in China, No Redress for Victims of His Crackdown

BEIJING — The curtain may be about to fall on China’s disgraced leader Bo Xilai, but victims of the harsh brand of justice he handed out in a high-profile crime crackdown are not making any headway in their campaign for redress.

[10] MM www.irrawaddy.com · 2013-09-02 · 71% match

TV Confessions in China an Unsettling New Trend for Executives

BEIJING — A series of confessions by foreign and local executives on China’s state-controlled television has spurred anxiety among the business community about a trend that some lawyers say makes a mockery of due process.

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