Issue: April 27, 2012   (Archive)
Saturday, May 25, 2013   

'Spying' on Hu hastened Bo fall
A wiretapping network run by Chongqing officials was detected on a phone call made to President Hu Jintao in August, a discovery that helped topple the city's ambitious party chief Bo Xilai, the New York Times reported.



Punchy singer let off the jail hook
A Taipei court has handed down a three- year suspended sentence to a Japanese-Taiwanese star for attacking a taxi driver.

US suffers Uygur backlash
Beijing condemned the United States yesterday for sending two former terrorist suspects with Chinese nationality to El Salvador for resettlement and warned they are dangerous.



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