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The amendment would give police discretion to enforce a vague dress code, undoing progress in China that saw the state recede from people’s daily lives.
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
Nearly 5 million party members have been caught in China’s anti-corruption dragnet over the past decade. Yet a decisive victory still looks elusive, despite claims to the contrary.
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.
Both issues are seen as threatening stability and the real economy, and come ahead of the 20th Communist Party national congress later this year.
Brutal assault on women at restaurant in Tangshan, Hebei province, shines spotlight on disturbing issue that receives scant public attention.
Chinese social media has seen a wave of extreme nationalism directed at Japan in recent years amid rising bilateral tensions.
Hu’s relatives say they hope not to be disturbed and that she can rest in peace.
NPC law committee member Shen Chunyao says the proposal was subjective and open to misinterpretation.
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 woman in China has finally been formally freed from her violent husband who battered her so badly that she ended up needing to wear a colostomy bag.
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.
Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong meets US National Drug Control Policy director Rahul Gupta to ‘address shared threat’.
Four victims from Cornell College in Iowa and a Chinese tourist are said to be recovering in Jilin hospital; suspect has been detained by police.
Legal amendment seeks to lift burden for minors but legal scholars argue it should erase record of minor offences for all adults.
Ministry of Public Security launches national campaign against scams that ‘severely damage image of the party’.
Suspect arrested after Guo Jianyu, who dealt with illegal occupation of state-owned housing in Qin county, Shanxi province, died on duty.
Government says juvenile offenders ‘endanger social harmony’, but bullying is a society-wide mental health issue, experts warn.
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.
Some domestic helpers are sharing their bank accounts with scammers for rewards of between HK$1,000 and HK$2,000, police say.
Criminals ‘exploit the perceived anonymity and ease of cross-border transactions that cryptocurrencies offer’, Forrester report says.
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 has been detained and accused of hiding her father’s corpse for years to collect his military pension.
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.
A local villager has been identified as the main suspect following the incident in Zhenxiong country on Tuesday morning
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.
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 fuming woman farmer in rural China went berserk with a brick after a man drove over her carefully planted roadside crops, smashing up his expensive car.
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.