Just a week after a video of a British tourist sexually assaulting a Chinese woman in public went viral on the Internet, Beijing has begun a 100-day crackdown on foreigners residing and working illegally in the capital. more ›

So much for those "Good Samaritan" laowai. Footage of a British tourist sexually assaulting a Chinese woman in a Beijing public scene hit the Web this week, igniting a firestorm of anti-Laowai hysteria in the Weibo-sphere and beyond. more ›

Kim Lee, the estranged wife of Crazy English founder Li Yang, has expressed her frustration with China's legal system in an exclusive interview with Netease, saying Chinese law has failed to protect her from domestic violence. more ›

A 21-year-old man in Tianjin has had his penis cut off after what appears to be a botched circumcision procedure just two weeks before his wedding ceremony. more ›

And here it is -- the Al-Jazeera documentary that is said to have pissed China off so much that it refused to extend press credentials for its China correspondent Melissa Chan (even though she took no part in its production), effectively forcing the news network to shut down its Beijing bureau. The documentary includes some eye-opening footage from what Al-Jazeera says is a "laogai" reeducation labour camp. more ›

Translation of phone calls between human rights lawyer Teng Biao (滕彪) and Chen Guangcheng made yesterday evening while Chen was being held at Chaoyang Hospital. In this exchange, Teng convinces Chen to change his mind about staying on in China and to let the US embassy know he now wants asylum for the entire family. more ›

In just a few hours after leaving the US embassy and being reunited with his family, blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has turned around to say he wants to leave China. In contrast to earlier reports by both Chinese and US officials that he left the embassy of his own volition, Chen added that he chose to leave because he was told that his wife and children would be sent back to Shandong. more ›

A new report by the Daily Telegraph's Damien McElroy and Malcolm Moore suggests she did -- not just once but three times in all: more ›

British businessman Neil Heywood may have been poisoned after threatening to expose the business dealings of Gu Kailai, wife of former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai, according to a new Reuters exclusive which cites two unnamed sources with knowledge of the police investigation. Chris Buckley with the salacious details: more ›

Jiang Weiping (姜维平), a journalist who was jailed for investigating Bo's corruption, told Voice of America that Gu Kailai, Bo Xilai's wife, has Hong Kong ID and Singapore greencard. more ›

Land rights lawyer Ni Yulan (倪玉兰), who has now been permanently disabled due to police torture, has been sentenced to jail by a court in Beijing along with her husband Dong Jiqin (董继勤). more ›

From Journeyman Pictures comes this thoroughly thoughtful documentary treatise on the recent debate on the right of abode of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong, one that puts a human face on the 300,000 mostly Filipina and Indonesian women working in the territory as maids. more ›

Eric Fish of Sinostand shares us with a recent experience of a biking trip through the Shandong countryside which may suggest that China is stepping up surveillance of hotels on foreigners in smaller towns and cities: more ›

Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has arrested Thomas and Raymond Kwok, the heads of Hong Kong's largest real-estate firm, Sun Hung Kai Properties, for suspected bribery. However, as of yet, official charges have not yet been placed on the two billionaire brothers more ›

A Nigerian scammer was slapped with a 6-year prison sentence by the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court for fraud amounting to over US$265,000 yesterday. more ›

A man in Shenzhen invited his father to rape his girlfriend twice after quarrels with her, an "offer" which the dad accepted on both occassions. Both father and son have now been sentenced to (a shockingly low) 39 and 18 months respectively behind bars, according to a report by the Southern Daily. more ›

A man surnamed Tang has been charged by a local court in Sichuan province for killing his wife in a sadomaschistic game. more ›

Authorities have shut down a literally underground sex-therapy ring based in a run-down house under a mountain in Guangdong province. A watchdog and police had suspected the group of brainwashing members into performing various sex acts, claiming that it would help relieve their tension. more ›

Of the more than 500 couples who queued up last month on Valentine's Day at Beijing's Chaoyang district marriage registration centre on to get hitched, two couples were turned down by centre officials and walked away without marriage licenses. The two same-sex couples -- one male, and one female -- had shown up at the marriage office as part of a campaign by the Beijing LGBT Centre to drum up support for gay marriage in China. Online TV series Queer Comrades was there to catch the action. more ›

The fiance of Wu Yidian Eden, the Singaporean associate director at Standard Chartered's private banking business who was recently detained, has written an account of his time in Wuxi yesterday, where he tried to see his wife-to-be. Wu's parents were allowed to meet with her, but he was not. Local police, as it turns out, are unhappy that he has been talking to the press and writing about the case on his blog, and they want to shut him up. Tan walked away from a potential meeting with his wife after local police said they would allow him to see her only if he agreed to stop talking to the media. We're reposting his account here with his permission: more ›

A China-born Singaporean associate director at Standard Chartered's private banking business has been detained by authorities in Shanghai and transferred some 125km away to the city of Wuxi in Jiangsu province. more ›

A gang of 4 men has been arrested for faking a public bus to rob passengers in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, Yangcheng Evening News reports. more ›

A 6-year-old boy's penis was bitten off by his dad Wednesday morning in Shenzhen. Doctors are understood to have reattached the boy's penis but aside from being mentally scarred for life, the boy may never regain full use of his penis. Shanghai Daily reports: more ›

A district court has rejected an appeal by a Middle Eastern expatriate who tried to seek insurance compensation after a hit-and-run accident, according to Shanghai Daily. more ›

A 17-year-old student was doused with petrol and set on fire in her home in Hefei, Anhui province after she rejected the advances of a classmate. more ›

For the first time in the country's brief history, South Sudan has expelled a foreign national from their country. Liu Yingcai, the Chinese head of Petrodar, was given 72 hours to leave the country following an investigation into neighboring Sudan's alleged theft of $815 million dollars worth of oil. more ›

In a place where most people have never even seen ballot papers, there's always someone who'll always say that the one-person one-vote is dangerous. The 'good citizen certificates' of yesteryears were the same as now. The (Japanese) devils said, "We can't issue 'good citizen certificates' for everyone, or else the Eighth Route Army would penetrate." I'm not talking about representative systems to you. I'm just telling you that the one-person one-vote is a right right. We're not talking about one-person one-gun here. What are you so afraid of?" more ›

The Hong Kong government is appealing against a landmark ruling that could let maids from abroad gain permanent residency. In September, a lower court judge found that an immigration provision, denying foreign maids the right to apply for permanent residency after seven years, as other foreign residents can, was unconstitutional. [Al Jazeera] more ›

Pro-democracy activist Qin Yongmin, who was freed from prison in November 2010 after serving a 12-year term for subversion, was recently taken in by state security over his plans to launch a "peaceful transition" website. His story as told to Radio Free Asia: more ›

Reporters and protestors spent Thursday crowding outside the multi-million dollar villas of Henry Tang, the man backed by China's Communist Party to be Hong Kong's next chief executive, after reports surfaced in the press that he had built a basement under his private swimming pool in violation of building codes. more ›