• Court will review student's jail term for selling birds

    2015-12-05

    A court in Henan province confirmed on Friday that it would review a verdict in which a former college student was sentenced to 10 years in prison for catching and selling endangered falcon chicks.

  • Former Yunnan official sentenced for taking bribes

    2015-12-03

    Shen Peiping, former vice governor of Yunnan Province, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for accepting bribes worth around 16 million yuan (2.5 million U.S. dollars), a Beijing court announced Thursday a guilty verdict.

  • Students sentenced to 10 years for illegally trading in birds

    2015-12-03

    In today's trending, students sentenced for hunting, selling protected birds and tweezers and cigarette lighters found in stomach.

  • Police ordered to return illegally-seized millions -- plus interest

    2015-12-03

    A police force in northeast China has been ordered to pay back 20 million yuan ($3.12 million) it illegally seized from a real estate company along with 830,000 yuan the money would have accrued in interest, in a Chinese legal precedent.

  • Ex-environment official charged with corruption

    2015-11-28

    The former deputy head of the provincial environmental watchdog in Hebei has been charged with taking bribes along with another 10 officials, amid a tide of senior officials in environment authorities being accused of corruption since 2014.

  • Reforms may end 20-year legal fight

    2015-11-26

    After spending 20 years fighting to clear her dead son's name, Zhang Huanzhi is hopeful that a court will soon quash his conviction and grant a posthumous pardon.