Man reunites with family with Google Maps
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-22 04:09:35 -0700 | political-news
The child in Luo's dream is Luo, who was abducted at the age of 5 from his hometown to Sanming, Fujian province. But he found his way home with the help of a good memory and modern technology, specifically Google...
Call for more holiday time
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-19 12:25:32 -0700 | political-news
The study conducted by the National Tourism Administration collected data from 6,055 questionnaires filled out in seven regions and 14 cities. According to a 2009 benefit and employment guideline released by Mercer, a consulting company focusing on human resources, China...
China ex-policeman jailed for l...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-15 19:26:23 -0700 | political-news
The former deputy police chief of the Chinese megacity of Chongqing has been given a suspended death sentence for bribery, a court said yesterday. Tang Jianhua was condemned to death with two years' reprieve for taking bribes, a court official...
Healthy environment vital, says white paper
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-24 04:07:30 -0700 | political-news
Environmental protection was an entire chapter for the first time in the central government's white paper on human rights progress. The government has worked hard to ensure that people can enjoy a good ecological environment, according to the white paper,...
IHT Rendezvous: Daughter of a Detained Chinese Rights Activist Speaks
Source: Newyork Times
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-13 20:44:57 -0700 | political-news
A screenshot from a Sina Weibo account showing the rights activist Liu Ping with an umbrella that says Citizen, and underneath it, Freedom, Righteousness, Love. Liao Minyue last saw her mother, the rights activist Liu Ping, in mid-April, when she...
World Briefing | Asia: China: Former Police Official Detained
Source: The New York Times
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-13 19:43:18 -0700 | political-news
Former Police Official Detained Published: May 13, 2013 A former deputy police chief in Chongqing, Tang Jianhua, has been placed under detention in the Communist Party's disciplinary system for taking nearly $3 million in bribes, according to an article on...
Number of left-behind children passes 60m
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-12 21:21:24 -0700 | political-news
The number of children under 17 years old in rural areas whose parents leave them with grandparents or other family members in order to earn money in cities has soared to 61.02 million, accounting for 37.7 percent of rural children...
China probes top state planner amid graft claims
Source: The New Zealand Herald
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-24 07:05:53 -0700 | political-news
China is investigating a top state planner for alleged "serious disciplinary violations" the official Xinhua news agency said, in phrasing which typically refers to corruption cases. Liu Tienan, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, was under investigation...
Major Chinese city unifies household registration
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-24 04:55:27 -0700 | political-news
South China's city of Guangzhou's latest move to unify household registration information has sparked discussion on the reform of China's household registration ("hukou") system. The city government announced on Monday that it will swap out residents' old residence registration booklets...
Sex video scandal nets 21 Chinese officials and executives
Source: United Press International
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-08 07:11:30 -0700 | political-news
Twenty-one government officials and executives of state-owned businesses in southwest China have been caught in a sex video scandal, local officials said. It began when a sex video featuring the Communist Party chief of Chongqing's Beibei district went viral on...
China party punishes 21 officials in sex scandal
Source: The Boston Globe
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-24 01:21:55 -0700 | political-news
China's ruling Communist Party has punished 21 officials over a scandal in which developers were allegedly extorted by a developer after being secretly filmed in liaisons with hired women. The official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday that the party's disciplinary...
China jails former senior official for life for corrupti...
Source: Qatar English Daily
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-04 01:46:56 -0700 | political-news
China has sentenced a former provincial deputy governor to life in prison for accepting almost $2 million in bribes, the most senior official to be punished since the country's new leadership made tackling corruption its top priority. Huang Sheng, former...
China prosecutes 'sex-tape' official
Source: BBC
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-03 05:06:22 -0700 | political-news
The authorities acted after images of Chongqing official Lei Zhengfu went viral on the internet last year. He was removed from his post, and the Xinhua news agency reports that he will now be prosecuted for corruption. The businessman who...
Sex video official to be prosecuted
Source: China News
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-24 02:04:04 -0700 | political-news
An official in southwest China's city of Chongqing will be prosecuted on corruption charges after appearing in a sex video, local prosecutors said Friday. former secretary of Chongqing's Beibei District Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was found...
Letter from China: Allegiance, the Privilege of the Party
Source: The New York Times
Chongqing :: China | updated 2013-05-01 05:29:35 -0700 | political-news
In late 2011, with China 's leadership transition a year away, a power struggle at the very top of politics was entering its final, hefty phase. That November, a British businessman, Neil Heywood, would die in Chongqing, setting off a...
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