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13 years after mentally ill woman went missing in China, man held on suspicion of rape

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13 years after mentally ill woman went missing in China, man held on suspicion of rape

More than a decade ago, a 32-year-old woman wandered away from her home in central China. The woman, identified only by her surname Bu, had a university degree but she also had a history of mental illness, with several hospital stays for treatment by the time she went missing from her home in Jinzhong, Shanxi … Read more

‘Crush them’: are China’s local governments using unsustainable tactics to repay debt?

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‘Crush them’: are China’s local governments using unsustainable tactics to repay debt?

On China’s social media platforms last week, a recording surfaced that revealed a side of the country’s debt crisis that has largely gone unreported. The recording is presented as a conversation between an unnamed representative of a medical technology company and a market regulation enforcement officer, surnamed Zhang, from Chengwu county in eastern China’s Shandong … Read more