A Chinese court has concluded the trial of a former police chief accused of protecting gangs, accepting bribes and rape in a southwestern China megacity with a long history of corruption. The trial of Wen Qiang ended early Sunday, the Chongqing No. 5 Intermediate People's Court ...

An additional 300,000 people will be forced to move from their homes because of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam and its huge reservoir, state media reported on Thursday. The English-language China Daily said the relocations were aimed at preventing pollution from adjacent communities contaminating the reservoir, and at protecting residents from possible seismic dangers. The report quoted government ...

Taiwan's Inventec Corp, the world's fourth largest contract notebook computer maker, said Monday it will spend 800 million US dollars to build a plant in southwestern China.
Inventec said in a statement it had signed an agreement for the five-year investment project with the government of Chongqing over the weekend. Inventec said the Chongqing plant will become its ...

Two mob bosses — nicknamed the "Hammerhead" and "Spicy Qin" — have been sentenced to death for murder and illegally running a business empire involving underground casinos, cement factories and poultry markets in southern China, a court official and local media said Friday. The long-awaited verdict, which was 60,000 ...