What's law got to do with it?

HONG KONG Visitors from mainland China climb the stairs to a cramped room filled with forbidden delights: shelves of scandal-packed exposs about their Communist Party masters. The People's Recreation Community bookstore and several others on Hong ...

A former British colony, Hong Kong became a self-administered region of China in 1997, and despite pressures from Beijing, remains free of state censorship. In 2012, Hong Kong hosted 34.9 million visits by Chinese nationals, many on shopping sprees.

BEIJING — The spirits of two men called Mao are abroad in China, representing two dramatically different political views nascent parties, perhaps in a one-party state. Recently, there has been open hostility between the two camps, as I report in ...

HONG KONG Chinas top anti-corruption agency said Sunday that it was investigating a senior economic policy maker, Liu Tienan, in an abrupt turn in a case that openly pitted him against a campaigning investigative journalist. The Communist Partys ...

China's media environment remains one of the world's most restrictive. As described in Freedom House's recently released report on the state of global press freedom for the year 2012, the Chinese government's press restrictions were complex, ...

Before he kicked off the biggest political storm in recent Chinese communist history last February after attempting to defect at a U.S. Consulate in southwestern China, police chief Wang Lijun supervised the cutting of thousands of organs from the ...

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Calls for a crackdown on corruption made by Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) and the princelings he represents are more a political show than an indication of intent, while the faction's tendency toward nationalism does not mean they ...

The Lucky Holiday Hotel is a three-star resort nestled on a densely wooded mountain top about eight kilometres from downtown Chongqing, a major city in south-west China. The hotel's main attraction is the 10 European-style villas with rooftop ...