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Crime in China
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Police are saying that cheap artificial intelligence tools allowing scammers to “swap faces” even in real time are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Such awareness is the first step in avoiding being drawn in

Embezzling several thousand yuan was once enough to trigger capital punishment, but Lai Xiaomin’s execution last year for taking more than US$260 million seems to have set a new minimum.

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The negative publicity received by Ren for meeting Li is in stark contrast to the public goodwill the low-profile tech leader earned for his efforts at Huawei to overcome US sanctions.

A man in China broke into a Shanghai company and left a note recommending that the business improve its security system, amusing the mainland social media.

Could that new weapon of war the submarine put an end to piracy along the South China coast? Britain’s Royal Navy thought so, and sent some state-of-the-art subs to Hong Kong in the 1920s, with mixed results.

A woman from China who lost the baby she was carrying when her husband pushed her off a cliff in Thailand five years ago has revealed that she is pregnant again, delighting social media.

A woman in China who was handed a six-month suspended jail term for growing more than 900 opium poppy plants on the roof of her house says she was given the seeds by her late father and liked to use them for cooking her favourite dishes.

A woman in China whose mother was suffering from cancer, discovered the elderly woman had spent all her money on a fake product after an influencer claimed it could cure the illness.

A woman from China whose husband tried to kill her by pushing her off a cliff in Thailand has spoken about the reasons why she returned to the scene of the 2019 tragedy.

An online influencer in China has been caught up in the hunt for a fugitive from a murder in 2006 after fans noticed he resembled the suspect and reported him to the police.

A fugitive killer in China who escaped after murdering two people in 2001, has been captured after police received a tip-off which led them to uncover details of his bizarre secret life.

The social media account of an online influencer in China has been taken down after videos she produced about the lost homework of a mainland student being found in a cafe toilet in Paris were exposed as fakes.

Police in northern China have detained five people for allegedly colluding to steal about 10,000 tonnes of corn amid Beijing’s increasing focus on food security.

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When police in China went to the home of a man who had been caught looking under doors in a women’s toilet, his enraged mother hit and kicked him until officers stopped her.

A gifted man in China who achieved the highest scores in a test to become a nuclear physics major at a highly regarded mainland university has been refused admission because of his history of killing cats.

A mother in China who spotted a young girl while visiting a far-off province and decided she was a “perfect wife” for her 27-year-old son, has been jailed along with him for abducting the girl.