Category Archives: China

(January 5, 2006) China is putting its marathon anti-graft crackdown online, launching a Web site for the public to report corrupt officials. Continue reading →

(September 27, 2004) In an unusually blunt message, China’s Communist Party has warned its members that corruption and incompetence could threaten its hold on power. Continue reading →

(September 9, 2004) According to the latest official count, some 4,000 senior Chinese officials and managers of state-owned businesses have fled abroad over the past two decades with as much as $50 billion dollars in embezzled money. Continue reading →

(August 11, 2004) He Kechang, jailed for three years for appealing to top Chinese leaders about corruption in the Three Gorges resettlement operation, has been released and is still struggling on behalf of people uprooted by the dam. Continue reading →

(July 8, 2004) China’s top audit body is to examine Chinese Communist Party (CCP) departments as well as more central government and state-funded institutions after massive and rampant misuse of funds was uncovered, state media said yesterday. Continue reading →

(April 9, 2004) In a rare challenge to China’s courts, some mainland legal experts and journalists are publicly appealing for a retrial of two newspaper editors jailed on corruption charges. Continue reading →

(April 1, 2004) China has agreed to write off debts owed by Afghanistan as part of efforts to shore up relations with its war-torn neighbor, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday. Continue reading →

(March 11, 2004) An important corruption case has been brewing in China since 1995 and is now finally coming to light. Continue reading →