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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

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 ›

The Ministry of Public Security has filed an Interpol Red Notice on Sun Feng, a former branch manager with the Agricultural Bank of China in Jiangyin county, for absconding away with an estimated $50 million. more ›

Only days after possibly gunning down the wrong wolf during a hunt for the creature responsible for biting seven people in Tengzhou (two of whom died), Shandong's finest captured another suspect which isn't even the right species. Last week, police tracked down and "apprehended" a white wolf in Tengzhou, which has been revealed to be a husky. 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 ›

Citizens of Tengzhou no longer have to fear the big bad wolf...we think. Shandong police have gunned down a wolf suspected of attacking seven seven people in Tengzhou in under a week. Authorities allegedly encountered the wolf in a wheat field and shot it in the leg, prompting it to flee 20 km, before they caught up with the animal and finished the job. 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 ›

Xinhua news agency has reported that a group armed with knives have killed ten people in the northwestern region of Xinjiang yesterday. Two of the attackers were allegedly shot dead by police. more ›

Police in Qionglai in Sichuan Province got jiggy with it recently to record a rap video entitled "Rise up, Qionglai Police!" (邛崃警察雄起), to showcase and express their love of the job and bad-guy-catching skills. The video footage (with crazy camera zooms!) features a variety of policemen, including S.W.A.T teams in training, civilian police visiting from house to house and helping old ladies, as well as firemen leaving their stations to put out some pesky burning Tibetans local fires. 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 ›

More than half of the 27 journalists imprisoned in China are ethnic Tibetan or Uyghur, says the Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) in a report posted on its website. 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 ›

In what is being called the largest bounty in Chinese history, authorities are now offering a total of 2.45 million RMB for the man wanted in connection with seven murders in Chongqing, Changsha and Nanjing. In the news they're calling him "Flat Top" (“平头男”). 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 ›

In a standoff between a group of Hui Muslims and Chinese police over the demolition of a mosque in Ningxia province, dozens were left injured and more detained: more ›

In Meizhou, Guangdong, a police officer attempted to stop a car with an obscured license plate on a busy road during rush hour. The driver, however, attempted to escape with little regard for others' lives or property - wreaking havoc on the surroundings before eventually being forcibly detained by the police and astonished passersby. 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 ›

Protesters in Wukan, the village that captivated China watchers around the world during their bold stand-off with the Chinese government, have packed up shop and gone home after government concessions. more ›

AP reports that government officials forcefully shut down an outdoor Christmas party organised by Christians in Xitan village (溪坦村) in Zhejiang province. Xitan bills itself as a "Christmas village", and it comes under the jurisdiction of Ruian city which is home to many underground churches and manufactures some 500 million yuan in Christmas products each year. more ›