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 ›

"For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt." So begins Telegraph correspondent Malcolm Moore's report of what he has personally witnessed in the fishing village of Wukan, Guangdong over the past few days. Enraged over government land grabs, villagers have now overrun local authorities and driven police out. They remain barricaded within their village, roadblocks set up by both police and villagers preventing food and water from entering. Here's a roundup of what's happening. more ›

The office of the Karmapa Lama has issued an official statement in response to charges by the Indian police that he was taking foreign money and acting as a spy for China: 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 ›

Two days ago, we heard about Chinese women getting trafficked into Ghana as prostitutes to service expatriates working in the country. Today, Shanghai Daily tells us of a transnational police action which has seen a prostitution ring busted in Angola and ringleaders captured in China: 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 ›

Can't an officer of the law relax and get his shoes shined without the entire weibosphere getting up in arms about it? A policeman from the Fuzhou city of Nanping (南平) recently received a shoe-shining while sticking his feet out of his police vehicle in the Zhejiang city of Quzhou (衢州). 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 ›

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 ›

Here's a problem we'll hear increasingly about in the future. Xinhua reports that 206 foreign women "illegally purchased by desperate bachelors" were rescued in Hebei province: more ›

The sight of a BMW Mini police car parked outside a police station in the city of Tianjin has raised eyebrows among residents there. When a journalist from Southern Metropolitan Daily arrived at Binhai District's Tanggu Road police station where the car was parked, her requests for an interview was rebuffed by the duty officer who said he could not reveal his chief's cell phone number, and that "you can say whatever you like about it on the internet." Well, she went back to her office, put up what he said on the paper's Weibo, and the tweet has since been shared close to 4,000 times. 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 ›

Foshan's Nanhai District Procuratorate has formally approved the arrest of Hu Jun, the first of two drivers who ran over two-year-old toddler, Yueyue, in the double hit-and-run that has gripped the nation and the world this week. The formality paves the way for the next step in the legal process of a case that will be highly watched by all quarters of Chinese society. more ›

Multiple sources have told Shanghaiist that the police have been going around bars -- of all places! -- asking foreigners if they've got anything to do with the Occupy Wall Street movement. Apparently, the powers that be are worried that intoxicated laowai's might start to Occupy Shanghai? more ›

The Sichuanese city of Aba, home of the Kirti Monastery that's had 9 Tibetan monks self-immolate since March, is currently witnessing a huge show of police wearing riot gear, as seen in a new video from the AFP. more ›

Police have arrested a 34-year-old man named Li Hao on charges that he kept sex slaves in a dungeon buried beneath a residential complex in Luoyang, Henan province. He is suspected of kidnapping a total of six women from KTV bars, murdering at least one, and keeping them prisoner for periods of up to two years! more ›

The Hong Kong police made history over the weekend with the biggest drug bust in the city's history, seizing a massive 567kg of suspected cocaine which is estimated to be worth HK$600 million or $77 million USD. Just for reference, 567kg of cocaine is roughly equivalent to the combined weight of Yao Ming, Shaquille O'Neal, a hefty-sized adult male lion, and a large bag of dog food. Now that is one big bag of blow. more ›

It was like a scene straight out of an action movie yesterday at Shanghai Police's anti-terror drill, where hundreds of SWAT officers, from various districts such as Xuhui, Yangpu, and the Pudong New Area were all hands on deck for a one-hour drill held at a local military base. The drill, the largest in the city's recent history, had the SWAT corps display their skills, with the usual shooting (rapid close fire, bend guns fire), and some other manly man stuff involving helicopters also taking place. more ›

Last month, a 77-year-old woman by the name of Zhuang Jinghui stripped off all her clothes and went kneeling on the steps of the district courthouse, kowtowing to the powers that be to investigate her case. more ›