China eviction protester 'jailed'
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A Beijing man planning to protest against evictions to make way for new buildings in Beijing is reportedly jailed for four years.
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A Chinese villager has been jailed for  10 years for keeping 80,000 yuan ($11,000) in cash he found in  a plastic bag at the scene of a car accident, local media  reported on Tuesday.
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A Chinese villager has been jailed for 10 years for keeping 80,000 yuan (5,600 pounds) in cash he found in a plastic bag at the scene of a car accident, local media reported on Tuesday.
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A jobless Hong Kong man, detained for  weeks and denied bail in the city's nude celebrity photo  scandal was released on Friday following a public outcry that  he was unfairly victimized by police.
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A Chinese court jailed two managers of  a state-owned coal mine on Wednesday for negligence two years  after a gas explosion killed 166 miners, Xinhua news agency  said.
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A candidate from Hong Kong's largest democracy party is jailed in mainland China, accused of hiring a prostitute.
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BEIJING, Feb. 9 -- A senior editor at a Chinese newspaper has been released from prison after serving four years on corruption charges that journalists said were trumped up by local officials to retaliate for aggressive reporting.
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A tycoon who was the youngest person on Forbes magazine's list of China's 400 richest people last year was sentenced to life in prison for fraud.
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Zhao Ziyang, toppled as China's Communist Party chief for opposing the army crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, turned 85 on Sunday in poor health and living his 15th year under house arrest.
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A Chinese journalist jailed while working for the New York Times expects to be freed at the weekend, his family and a lawyer said, ending a controversial prison term that highlighted the country's tough media controls.
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A Chinese civil rights activist who chronicled the plight of other dissidents before being taken from his home in December has been officially arrested and charged with subversion, his lawyer said Friday.
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Dozens of people have been detained or placed under house arrest, as the trial of a high-profile Beijing activist opens in a local court, said some of the detainees.
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A businessman has been sentenced to life in prison and his wife to 14 years behind bars for stealing &#36;50 million in China's second-biggest bank fraud since the start of communist rule in 1949, a news report said.
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A New York Times researcher sentenced by a Chinese court to three years in prison on a fraud charge appealed his conviction Tuesday, his lawyer said.
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A Ukrainian who exploited immigrant workers is jailed for seven years in the UK for money-laundering.
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BEIJING : A farmer has been arrested in China for hacking eight people to death with an axe after being released from prison for the rape of a woman who became one of his victims.
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A Chinese journalist jailed for nearly eight years after exposing government corruption said after being released early for good behavior that he should never have been sent to prison.