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On a typical weekend afternoon, Beijing's Silk Street Market buzzes with the sound of tens of thousands of tourists haggling over antiques, jewelry and knock-off Gucci handbags. Rickshaw drivers normally scoop up these marketgoers, pedal them to their hotels and return with pockets full of foreign currency - a...
First, there was the case of "hide and seek." Then there was the "nightmare" and the "shower case." As the improbable explanations for deaths of prisoners in China's criminal justice system grows, so have the doubts of legal experts and average citizens alike. The government has pledged open investigations...
"Pressure on the local police, especially in small towns, gets so high that arrests are often based on nothing but scarce evidence," says Beijing-based lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan. "Even though they know it's illegal to force a confession by means of torture, the police still resort to it because...
Companies that are majority owned by the government include some familiar names, among them China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone company by subscribers, Baoshan Steel and China National Petroleum Corp. The role they play in China's hybridized economy appears to be expanding due to the global slump...
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