China's government is giving no details on the trial of shamed senior leader Bo Xilai, the final chapter in its worst political scandal in decades, as speculation mounted the case could be heard as early as Monday. ...
06:45 AM, Jan 28, 2013
Beijing: Amidst looming national leadership transition and escalating tensions with Japan, China on Thursday appointed a new army Chief of Staff along with several other top officers, sidelining generals associated with disgraced Communist Party leader Bo Xilai. General Fang Fenghui, who was one of the few military commanders regarded as close to President Hu Jintao has been appointed as the Chief of the Headquarters of the General Staff of the...
09:00 AM, Oct 26, 2012
Beijing: China's ruling Communist Party on Friday expelled disgraced leader Bo Xilai accusing him of corruption, sex and sleaze ahead of a generational change in leadership, and ordered that he face trial for covering up the role of his wife in the murder of a British businessman. The Politburo meeting of the party headed by President Hu Jintao decided to expel Bo from the party after hearing the report of...
08:42 AM, Sep 29, 2012
Beijing: Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai was expelled from the ruling Communist Party on Friday and is now slated to face corruption and other criminal charges, the latest step in a scandal that has overshadowed a political transition set to take place in early November. The party's Politburo said that Bo, who had been a candidate for top office until caught up in a scandal that included a murder, will...
06:16 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Hefei (China): The wife of a disgraced Chinese politician was given a suspended death sentence on Monday after confessing to killing a British businessman in a case that rocked the country's top political leadership. A suspended sentence is usually commuted to life in prison after several years. Gu Kailai received the sentence and a family aide was given nine years' imprisonment for killing Neil Heywood, a former family associate, said...
08:01 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced Chinese Communist Party leader Bo Xilai has admitted to poisoning British businessman Neil Heywood. ...
10:10 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Chongqing: The British businessman whose murder has sparked political upheaval in China was poisoned after he threatened to expose a plan by a Chinese leader's wife to move money abroad, two sources with knowledge of the police investigation said. It was the first time a specific motive had been revealed for Neil Heywood's murder last November, a death which ended Chinese leader Bo Xilai's hopes of emerging as a top...
05:07 PM, Apr 16, 2012
