Three men were handed jail sentences for up to a decade in a secret trial last year for "inciting subversion of state power" through their criticisms of former president Jiang Zemin. The details of the trial have only now emerged through a Hong Kong-based rights organisation, writes Will Clem of the South China Morning Post: more ›

Jende Huang writes on Sino-NK about the illicit trade in crystal meth between North Korea and China. Curiously, China doesn't seem to be too keen in reprimanding the DPRK for the production and export of meth, or bingdu (冰毒) in Chinese. more ›

Previously China's 6th richest woman, Wu Ying seems likely to face the death penalty after her appeal against a financial fraud conviction has been rejected. In a controversial case which has divided national opinion over the use of the death sentence in non-violent crimes, Zhejiang Higher People's Court reached their decision on the grounds that Wu "brought huge losses to the nation and people with her severe crimes, and should therefore be severely punished." more ›

Most people in China prefer to have sons instead of daughters to continue the family name, but not one young woman in Yancheng, Jiangsu province. In fact, she wanted to have a girl so badly she took a pair of scissors and snipped off her five-month-old son's penis. The court has handed her a five year prison sentence. more ›

Shanghai police have begun investigating the case of Ryan Fedoruk, the Canadian scammer and fake landlord who sublet 30 apartments to 80 tenants before fleeing with RMB300,000, after Eva Gao, the local lawyer who is providing victims with legal aid, handed over statements by 45 people who say they have been swindled by Fedoruk. Shanghai PSB's economic crime investigation department said it would investigate the whereabouts of the man after they were done looking through the statements. more ›

Lots of foreign scammers milling about in Shanghai doing their thing these days, it seems. First there was Ryan Fedoruk, the Canadian fake landlord who sublet 30 apartments to 80 tenants before fleeing with RMB300,000. And then yesterday, a Nigerian man was charged at the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court.for concealing criminal income totaling more than US$265,000, according to the Shanghai Daily: more ›

It's been a couple of days since we told you about Ryan Fedoruk, the Canadian scammer and fake landlord who sublet 30 apartments to 80 tenants before fleeing with RMB300,000, and still, the man is nowhere to be found. Victims tell Shanghaiist they were told by police on their last check a couple of days ago that Fedoruk still hasn't left China. But who knows? Our friend could have walked over a bridge to Vietnam without his passport, or trekked over from Tibet to India, or walked over the frozen Yalu River to the DPRK. more ›

"I know Fedoruk. He is a scammer and he ran away, owing me tens of thousands yuan," said a landlord victim who refused to be named. "He rented the apartments, then he sublet them and disappeared with the money he owed to me and to the poor tenants, but I will find him." more ›

Kill them, of course. A man surnamed Jiang has been detained and charged for killing one and injuring three others after they interrupted the little rumpus-stumpus he was having with two hustlers in his car parked on a road in Foshan, Guangdong. The details: more ›

A 38-year-old South African woman by the name of Janice Bronwyn Linden (pictured right) has been executed more than three years after she was arrested for being found with 3kg of methamphetamine upon her arrival in the Guangzhou airport. Her death sentence was carried out by lethal injection (and witnessed by her own family members) just days after a Filipino was executed for a similar crime, sparking protests in the city of Manila. more ›

The Zhejiang city of Yongkang (永康) recently witnessed a series of attacks from a helmeted brick-wielding thief, who robbed his victims while they were depositing and withdrawing money from the city's ATM machines. more ›

Shanghai Daily reports: "Three local officials are among the six men detained for having sex with two teenage girls in Lueyang County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, according to the police." more ›

We told you on Sunday how a Russian woman was sentenced to death in Zhuhai for heroin smuggling. A 35-year-old Filipino man is set to join her in the gallows for the same crime -- he was found carrying 1.495 kg of heroin in September 2008 at the Guilin International Airport, and his execution is set for December 8. more ›

This past summer in Chengdu, a blatantly insecure boyfriend forced his girlfriend to endure beatings, sleep deprivation and a chastity belt over his suspicions she was cheating on him. more ›

A 14-year-old boy has been sentenced to 12 years jail for killing his mother and sister in Guangdong's Liannanzhaigang Town more ›

A senior student in Dongguan University of Techonology has given himself up to the police for killing a sophomore after a failed attempt to rape her. The would-be rapist surnamed Ao followed Liang Rongcai (梁荣彩), the victim, to the washroom and attempted to rape her. Encountered with Liang's resistence, Ao killed her and subsequently escaped. more ›

"The whole procedure, up till today, every step has been illegal and unreasonable," Ai told Reuters in an interview, shortly after he had paid the bond. more ›

"In fact, it's not as complicated as outsiders think. We all use rifles, stand about four meters from the condemned prisoner with a barrel one meter-long, take aim, press the trigger, and that's that," Hu told the newspaper. more ›

A man has plunged to his death after trying to flee from the police during a crackdown on prostitution, Guangzhou Ribao reported. more ›

The three laowai thieves who were caught on closed circuit television stealing Da Marco's reservation book may have returned the book to the restaurant, but one of them appears to be at it again! This time an Italian restaurant has fallen prey to the kleptomaniac, and they say 4,000 customer contact details have gone just like that. more ›

Two videos of an underaged boy performing oral sex on another have been posted to the social networking site Facebook in Taiwan, reports Apple Daily. In the first of the clips, the two boys who appeared to be about 2- or 3-years-old, were engaged in the sexual act which was filmed by a man, who could be heard commenting in the background, "That was too fast, do it again!" In the other video, the younger boy was held on the chest by a man as he received fellatio from the older boy while another adult male filmed the act. During the course of the filming, one of the men could be heard asking the other in Taiwanese if he managed to get it all down on tape. The videos went viral shortly after they were posted to Facebook. more ›

Gaopeng aka Groupon China continues to be in the news for all the wrong reasons. The group-buying site has been caught with its pants down for selling fake Tissots and a class action suit is underway: more ›

Changchun police have arrested a murderer who has been wanted for 16 years straight in Yangquan, Shaanxi Province. The murderer, as it turns out, is a member of the local CPPCC (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference) named Hou Jun (侯军). more ›

And by AHHH, we mean a scream of the viscerally disgusting get-it-away-from-me variety. A dentist working at Zhongshan Hosptial in Shanghai's far western district of Qingpu (青浦区) has been detained for sticking his genitals in a woman's mouth during surgery on Friday. more ›

If you thought that deploying geriatrics was a safe way of ensuring your protest will be a success, then think again. Malcolm Moore of the Daily Telegraph reports that on Tuesday, busloads of policemen dealt "briskly and aggressively" to clear a noisy crowd of 300 grandparents protesting outside a local court. The next day, the court sentenced activist grandmother Zhang Weiming, 65, to three and a half years jail for "organising a crowd to create a disturbance". Zhang has been spending the last eight years fighting for the rights of some 100,000 Shanghainese sent to Xinjiang in the 1960s by Chairman Mao. more ›

A man named nicknamed Junjun was looking for work in Nanjing, and met a man surnamed Zhang at a job fair. After being offered a place to sleep, Zhang took advantage of Junjun's kindness and raped his host. A later confrontation with Zhang resulted in Junjun attacking him with a stick, and then subsequently being charged and convicted of committing willful and malicious injury. more ›

Xu Chi of Shanghai Daily reports that the three expatriate thieves who were caught on closed circuit television stealing Da Marco's reservation book have returned the book to the restaurant three days later: more ›

"Sun Zhen, deputy at the National Bureau of Statistic and Wu Chaoming, deputy director at the People's Bank of China, have just been jailed five and six years respectively for leaking economic data. I'm finally beginning to understand Chinese law -- apparently there's no crime in manufacturing fake data, but leaking fake data is a crime." more ›

Yesterday around 3pm in Runan County, Henan, a police car veered onto the sidewalk and knocked down a lamppost, killing four and injuring three according to state media. Other sources said the man driving the car was a heavily intoxicated policeman, and that the accident led to six deaths and one injury. more ›