How Xinjiang Real Estate Takes Its Shape

Former Urumqi Party Boss Said to Pocket Bribes for Development Rights to Mountains Around Capital

on March 18, 2014

Police nabbed property developer Zhao Xingru and detained her for more than thirty days in late 2012 and early 2013 based on fraud allegations filed by executives at one of the country's largest developers, Hangzhou-based Greentown China Group.

But the detention ended abruptly and in the end Zhao was cleared of several serious charges leveled by Greentown, including contract forgery and faking transaction documents.

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on March 18, 2014

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‘Self-Media’ Pushes and Beijing Pushes Back

Wrists Slapped for Using Tencent’s WeChat Platform to Spread Samizdat News

on March 17, 2014

Michelle Song, twenty-four, studies international relations at Beijing’s prestigious Peking University and lives in a dormitory, so she doesn’t watch television regularly and doesn’t subscribe to newspapers. But this has not hampered her ability to keep up with the headlines: Like many Chinese, Song uses her smart phone to forage for breaking news. Over the past year, she’s increasingly come to rely on a new tool: WeChat, a social messaging app owned by Shenzhen-based Tencent Holdings Ltd that was launched in January, 2011.