"Don't think I'm trying to show off my wealth with this posting," a businessman wrote. "It's just I'm so toothless and helpless in the face of current-day society." (Reuters) This is how an entry for a confession to bribing officials starts on a Chinese website. The writer then describes how he coughed up 3 million RMB to government officials to win contracts and even took an official on a 10-day vacation to Europe. Faced with rampant corruption internet users like that businessman are taking to the net to vent their frustration (and perhaps ease their guilt) for taking part in left-handed dealings with sites like ibribery and 522phone. more ›

The Ministry of Public Security has started a three-month campaign against prisoner abuse, after numerous suspicious deaths of suspects and prisoners within police custody in recent months - including the death of 19-year-old Xu Gengrong, who had been in detention for eight days on suspicion of murdering his former girlfriend. more ›