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...face for signs of trouble as he descended from the prison bus. He'd seemed nervous lately and had complained of threats against him. But now hope had surfaced once again. After repeated denials, prison authorities in Harbin, near the Russian border, had announced that Fan's husband, Zhu Shengwen, would be home by the Lunar New Year, granted medical parole after seven years in jail. All that remained were some medical exams that Zhu, who suffered from hypertension, was scheduled to undergo on the afternoon of Dec. 29, the day of Fan's visit. As a guard watched...
...happier days, Zhu had been vice mayor of Harbin-a man of considerable power in Heilongjiang province. But in 1997, he had fallen from grace in spectacular style when a local court sentenced him to life in jail as one of 67 officials indicted for taking bribes while supervising the conversion of Harbin's bomb shelters into an underground shopping mall. Accused of pocketing some $112,000 in bribes, Zhu attracted huge media attention on the mainland. He was fictionalized first in a best-selling book, Covering the Tracks, then in a hit TV mini-series. Now, his drama...
...SENTENCED. YE XIANG, hotel assistant manager, and MING ZHU, madam; to life in prison for providing prostitutes to nearly 300 visiting Japanese construction-firm employees in September; in Zhuhai, China. The sex party, which reportedly included assignations in elevators and other public areas, occurred on what China considers the 72nd anniversary of its World War II occupation by Japan. China has requested the extradition of three Japanese citizens it claims "clearly requested sexual services," but the two countries don't have an extradition treaty...
...SENTENCED. WANG XUEBING, 51, former Bank of China president, to 12 years' jail for accepting bribes; in Beijing. Wang, once a protégé of former Premier Zhu Rongji and a proponent of Chinese banking reform, ran the bank's New York branch during a period when a borrower defaulted on $34 million in fraudulent loans. The bank had to pay $20 million in fines to U.S. and Chinese regulators, but won $106.4 million in a lawsuit against the client...
...elections aroused concern on the mainland that democracy would draw the island further away from unification, Beijing reacted angrily by lobbing missiles over the Taiwan Strait. Four years later, the pro-independence background of Taiwan's current President Chen Shui-bian elicited a televised harangue by former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji on the eve of the presidential polls. But during this year's presidential walk-up, China has been strangely quiet, even though some of Chen's policies, such as a push for a new constitution, arouse suspicions that he is laying the groundwork for independence...