Following earlier reports this month that China would discontinue its forced labor system, Guangdong Province announced Monday that it would end the reeducation through labor system within the year.
A high ranking Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official attempted to buy a promotion from former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, with at least 30 million yuan (US$4.8 million), according to recent reports.
Eight years after the death of Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese leader was commemorated after hundreds of mourners flocked to his house to pay their respects.
A dozen female Chinese officials have been implicated in what has been called “beauty corruption” in a series of reports in the Chinese media recently.
Local communist authorities in Hunan Province reacted with panic when numerous posters announcing an anonymous citizen’s anti-corruption campaign were put up.
The Chinese regime veered into high damage control this week, trying to kill the news about five runaway boys who died in a dumpster in southwestern China while the 18th Party Congress was in session in Beijing.