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Murdered Briton Neil Heywood was MI6 informant: WSJ
A British businessman murdered by the wife of top Chinese politician Bo Xilai had informed on the couple for over a year to his country’s spy agency, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Neil Heywood shared details derived from his unusually close access to the powerful couple, the paper said,…
China’s Communist Party prepares for power handover
China’s political elite are expected to oust disgraced figure Bo Xilai and jostle for leadership roles in their last formal meeting which opened Thursday ahead of next week’s landmark power handover. The Communist Party’s Central Committee convened behind closed doors, state media said, with 500 senior members to debate key…
China braces for shocking political murder trial
The son of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has told CNN the “facts will speak for themselves” in the case of his mother, who goes on trial Thursday over the murder of a British businessman. Bo’s wife Gu Kailai, herself a celebrated lawyer, stands accused of murdering British business associate…
China prosecutes Bo’s wife for murder
The wife of disgraced Chinese political leader Bo Xilai has been prosecuted for murder, state news agency Xinhua reported on Thursday. Gu Kailai and Zhang Xiaojun, an orderly at Bo’s home, were “recently” prosecuted by a Chinese court, Xinhua said, without giving further details.…
China shuts ‘rumor’ blogs in Internet crackdown
One of China’s most popular microblogging services has shut several accounts for spreading “malicious” rumours, as Beijing tightens control over the Internet after the ouster of a top leader. The move followed a broad crackdown on the Internet after rising political star Bo Xilai’s downfall in March, sparking a series…
China shutters websites, deletes 210,000 posts over ‘rumors’
BEIJING (AFP) – China has closed 42 websites and deleted more than 210,000 posts since mid-March in a crackdown on online “rumours”, state media said Thursday, as a major political scandal rocked the country. The announcement on the official Xinhua news agency came as Chinese authorities ramped up efforts to…
China purges rising political star as wife is probed for murder
China’s biggest political crisis in decades took a dramatic turn with the removal of one of the Communist Party’s biggest stars from his post and his wife’s arrest on suspicion of murder. Bo Xilai, the charismatic former party leader of Chongqing city, had been tipped for the very highest echelons of…
Top China leader ousted; wife probed over Briton’s murder
Chinese politician Bo Xilai, once a rising star, has been stripped of his elite Communist Party post while his wife is being investigated for the murder of a British national, state media said. The shock announcements — published Tuesday by the officialXinhua news agency – shed some light on a mysterious political scandal…
China ‘in for bumpy ride’ as new generation prepares to take power
The ousting of leadership contender Bo Xilai may be a sign of trouble ahead as once-a-decade power transition approaches. It was the greatest political upheaval in years, but it may not be the last. China’s dramatic ousting of the leadership contender Bo Xilai on Friday may have been an anomaly…
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