• Former top official gets life for graft

    2019-07-10

    Zeng Zhiquan, former head of the Guangdong Provincial United Front Work Department, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday for accepting 140 million yuan ($20.3 million) in bribes.

  • Death sentence to driver for ramming car into students

    2019-07-10

    A driver, who last year plowed his car into students crossing the road, killing six and injuring 20, was sentenced to death by a court in Northeast China's Liaoning province on July 9.

  • Organized crime cases lead to 271 convictions

    2019-07-03

    Beijing courts have convicted 271 people for their involvement in 65 organized crime cases in the first-instance judgment from January 2018 to the end of last month, Beijing High People's Court said in a news conference on July 2.

  • Ex-president of Interpol pleads guilty to bribery

    2019-06-21

    Meng Hongwei, former vice-minister of public security and the ex-president of Interpol, pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe of 14.46 million yuan ($2.1 million) during his trial at the Tianjin No 1 Intermediate People's Court on June 21.

  • Former kindergarten teacher's jail sentence for child abuse upheld

    2019-06-19

    Beijing's No 3 Intermediate People's Court on June 11 upheld the sentence of a former kindergarten teacher, surnamed Liu to 18 months in jail for child abuse and ordered the teacher to be banned from working in child care for five years, Beijing Evening News reported on June 18.

  • Court voids contract for fake online views

    2019-06-05

    Two litigants paid their illicit gains to Beijing Internet Court on June 3 after a contract between them dealing with the purchase of online views was declared void.