Around China

Zhejiang

Experts call for compensation shake-up

In June, six months after their convictions for robbery, rape and murder were quashed on appeal, four men from Jiangxi province claimed State compensation for their wrongful conviction and imprisonment 13 years ago.

Free, but still fighting

Nian Bin spent eight years on death row after being wrongfully convicted of killing two children with poison in 2006. In August 2014, he was exonerated and freed by an appeals court, which said the evidence produced at his trial had been insufficient to guarantee a lawful conviction.

Express Delivery Step Will Help Companies Boost Their Services

Regulation ensures safety of information after market witnesses rapid expansion

Building, inspections among key issues

Central ministries responded to a series of public concerns in the past week, including construction of small towns, environmental inspections, student subsidies and mine conditions.

Policy digest

Nutrition plan provides food for thought

Villagers Demand Name Of Disputed Statue's New Holder

Plaintiffs from East China begin court case to retrieve an 11th-century golden statue of the Buddha that contains human remains.

The bird man of Tibet

Yandao, 35, had never been to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau before he joined an observation team on China's second scientific expedition to the plateau in June.

Bookstore opens new page on island heritage

Su Xiaodong calls his bookstore on Gulangyu Island a kind of wormhole.

Around China

Shandong

Committed to fighting human trafficking

Rule of law and justice must always prevail

In a written ruling on Friday, the Court of First Instance of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region disqualified four opposition members of the Legislative Council (LegCo) on the ground that they deliberately messed up their oaths of office at the swearing-in ceremony last October and therefore violated Article 104 of the Basic Law and Section 21 of Hong Kong's Oaths and Declarations Ordinance.