Oops of the Day: CCTV anchor He Jia mistakenly declares (at 1'35"): "As we all know, the Philippines is Chinese territory. China has unquestionable sovereignty over the Philippines." The video went viral shortly after it first appeared on Sina Weibo, and was quickly scrubbed off the CCTV website. more ›

Well, well, well. Look who managed to make the cover of TIME magazine this week: everyone's favorite ousted Chongqing boss, Bo Xilai. You know you've made it big when... 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 ›

The fate and whereabouts of Chinese blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has overshadowed the upcoming China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue. more ›

Just how many people were killed during China's Century of Humiliation (1839-1945)? And how does that compare to the deaths incurred from Communist party policies from the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution (1949-1976)? The numbers have always varied. Luckily, Sinostand has some in-depth infographics on the data to paint us a clearer picture. 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 ›

Bo Guagua, the scion of China's most talked about political family, has issued his first statement since the fallout surrounding what his parents -- former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai and his wife Gu Kailai -- allegedly did to British businessman Neil Heywood. more ›

"Does China have any modern political civilisation to speak of? No, we see only thick skins, black hearts, and the law of the jungle. No matter how gory this infighting within the palace is going to be, the people will do well not to expect Justice Bao to descend from heaven. It is only when the average Chinese start seeing themselves as truly human can civil society start to grow." more ›

Bloomberg has an excellent piece today detailing the business interests of the Bo Xilai clan. Particularly outstanding is the information they managed to piece together on Li Wangzhi, 34, Bo Xilai's first son from another marriage: more ›

The sight of Prime Minister Wen Jiabao pottering about Iceland's natural wonders in windbreaker and hiking boots has raised suspicions over what China really wants from the island nation of 320,000. more ›

Former Aussie PM and foreign minister Kevin Rudd has joined Sina Weibo, attracting 100,000 followers within three days of his joining the Chinese microblogging platform. more ›

More salacious gossip from the mainstream rumour mill on Gu Kailai, the wife of former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai, now a key suspect in the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. 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 ›

With Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai now detained God-knows-where, the attention now turns to their son Bo Guagua. The Daily Telegraph has been doing the best job so far piecing together information on our favourite student playboy. more ›

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A sh*tload of new details have emerged in the ongoing Bo Xilai saga. Without further ado, let's get you up to speed. more ›

A selection of tweets on the latest developments in the Bo Xilai saga handpicked and translated by Shanghaiist: more ›

The news of former CPC star Bo Xilai's suspension has gripped China, with everyone offering their two cents (or five mao). We've brought you a round-up of comments. more ›

The axe has fallen... on the head of former Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai‘s (薄熙来). The once-rising star has been removed from both the Politburo and the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, said Xinhua News Agency in a report that has sounded the death knell for his political career. more ›

Astrophysicist and activist Fang Lizhi (方励之), one of the figureheads of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests, passed away Friday in Tucson, Arizona at the age of 76, after 22 years of life in exile. more ›

Dozens of Tibetan protesters clash with Indian police in New Delhi following the arrival President Hu Jintao here. A Tibetan exile who self-immolated on Wednesday in protest against China has died. more ›

"After the Chongqing saga, I have been pondering whether there are actually real leftists in the academic sense in China. The ideas presented by those apparent leftists are -- from the academic point of view -- anti-constitution and anti-modernization. The so-called "rightists" in 1957 weren't rightists but pro-constitution advocates. Anti-rightism is in fact anti-constitutionalism. The debate between the left and the right is often quite simply a debate between tradition and modernism, or between dictatorship and constitutionalism." more ›

China's ruling Communist Party is mulling a series of political reform measures, including the reassessment of the 1989 Tiananmen student protests, multiple Hong Kong media outlets, including the Apple Daily have reported. more ›

Now, Angus Walker, UK correspondent for ITV, who's now in Chongqing, says the UK consulate there has now refused to entertain further questions from the media, going so far as to chain up its doors. Both the consulate and the embassy in Beijing are staying mum on the death of Heywood: more ›

Malcolm Moore, Beijing correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, speaks to friends of Neil Heywood, the British businessman with links to ousted Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai who was found dead in a hotel room and quickly cremated without an autopsy. Here's what he found: more ›

CY Leung hasn't officially taken over as Chief Executive, but he is already doing a fine job of pissing off the people of Hong Kong. Just one day after winning that farce of an "election", Leung was spotted making a visit to the Beijing Liaison Office (you can think of that as China's "embassy" in HK), and spending some 90 minutes there. more ›

Yesterday, Jeremy Page of the Wall Street Journal broke the news of the mysterious death of a British businessman Neil Heywood who was closely linked (and apparently had business disputes) with Gu Kailai, the second wife of the recently ousted Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai. There's more excellent sleuthing from Page today, who says Heywood was working part-time for a British strategic-intelligence firm, Hakluyt & Co., set up by former spies, although the company has since denied he was involved in Chongqing-related projects: more ›

The difference between Mainlanders and Hong Kongers is that the former have votes but do not know who they are electing, while most of the latter do not have votes but know who they are electing. more ›

The British were able to appoint a Governor General without asking what Hong Kongers thought of it, and nobody in Hong Kong had any reaction. Now, although the Central Government would have some influence, there is an election anyway. But the Hong Kongers are always complaining and protesting. Why? Why are we always doing things that nobody appreciates? more ›