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Officer duped out of marriage and savings by seven-faced student

A female university student has been convicted of duping a Chinese railway police officer out of 300,000 yuan (US$47,00). The girl befriended the officer through an online chat room but blackmailed and...

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In China, Curious Case Of Fraud Grows Stranger Still

The Da Vinci furniture company showroom in Shanghai looks like a salon in Versailles. The price tag on a gilt-covered, Italian-made grandfather clock: more than $40,000. So it was big news last summer...

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Bronte Capital: The Macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy

China is a kleptocracy of a scale never seen before in human history. This post aims to explain how this wave of theft is financed, what makes it sustainable and what will make it fail. There are...

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Do food safety scandals in the PRD make you think twice before chowing down?

In the past couple of weeks, the Pearl River Delta has seen some of the most horrifying food safety scandals in a long while. The question is: does it make you reconsider living in China, and eating...

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‘Chinese Warren Buffett’ found guilty of fraud by Toronto jury

After a 50-day trial, it took jurors only a few hours to decide that Weizhan Tang was guilty of fraud. “It is not fair since I did not have a lawyer, people did not understand Chinese culture and...

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Brother of decapitated woman arrested for murder

The brother of a woman whose decapitated head was found on Friday in a lavatory has been arrested on suspicion of murder. New Taipei City (新北市) Sanchong Police Precinct deputy director Hsu Hsin (徐歆)...

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Teacher Hires Other Teachers to Teach for Him While Taking a Salary

An elementary school teacher that makes 3000 RMB a month uses 800 RMB to hire other teachers to substitute for him for a number of years. That's "years"; as even his own students don't recognize him as...

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TCM - The Real Story

Traditional Chinese medicine is an odd, dangerous mix of sense and nonsense. Can it survive in modern China? more »China Healthmedicinetcmfraudtoxinshospitalsculture

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Man Attending Self-Improvement Seminar Drowns When Attempting to "Conquer His...

A man attending a self-improvement seminar that can cost upwards of 30 K drowned during a "emotion management" class when he was forcibly held underwater as a way to "feel fear" so that he can...

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Xiamen Court Rules Woman's Lost Virginity Must Be Compensated to Amount of 1 RMB

Do you have a grievance with the person that stole your virginity? Do you seek justice in the form of compensation? If you're a resident of Xiamen, your "right to virginity" is protected by the courts;...

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China 'dog-lion': Henan zoo mastiff poses as Africa cat

An animal described as an African lion at a Chinese zoo was exposed as a fraud - when the creature started barking in front of visitors. more »Weird China Newsdogsfraudlion

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Yunnan county cooks the books to the tune of $850 million

A review of economic reports from the past two years has revealed officials in eastern Yunnan's Luliang County (陆良县) systematically inflated economic figures to the tune of hundreds of millions of...

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Tiger Scam

What started out as a decent cause has unfortunately fallen into the clutches of corruption. It turns out that the money meant to save endangered tigers was instead spent on expensive wine, meals and...

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Asylum Fraud in Chinatown: Industry of Lies

A Chinese woman walked into a law office in New York's Chinatown and asked to see her lawyer. She had applied for asylum, claiming that she had been forced to get an abortion in China to comply with...

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Fake Government Busted in China

China has seen its share of counterfeits, from fake Apple stores to fake reporters to fake Gucci. Now add fake government to that list. State media recently reported that a "People's Government of...

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