Tag: Chongqing
Chongqing Landslide Buries Apartment Buildings as Residents Question Official Account
A steep, rocky slope collapsed onto a riverside neighborhood in southwest China on the morning of July...
Fishing Ban Enforcement Turns Deadly in Chongqing as Teen Drowns During River Chase
China's decade-long nationwide fishing ban, introduced by Beijing as an environmental measure to restore...
The Engineers Who Predicted the Three Gorges Dam Would Fail — and Were Silenced for It
The Three Gorges Dam, completed in 2006 after more than a decade of construction on the Yangtze River...
Chongqing Animal Cruelty Case Triggers Street Protests and Dozens of Arrests
China has no national animal cruelty law, a gap that local police in Chongqing have repeatedly cited...
Wen Qiang’s Last Words to Wang Lijun: ‘My Today Is Your Tomorrow’
By Fu Longshan Editor’s note: This article draws on the analyses of multiple China scholars and on...
China Arms Firm Accused of Cover-Up After PhD’s Suicide
On Feb. 3, a 30-year-old doctoral researcher jumped from the office building of the Chongqing No. 59...
Chongqing Tunnel Explosion Kills Four, Highlights State Construction Giant’s Deadly Record
The Wanzhou District Transportation Commission in Chongqing issued a statement on March 31 confirming...
Truck Fire and Explosion Inside Chongqing Highway Tunnel Forces Drivers to Flee Through Thick Smoke
By Li Muzi On Jan. 26, a cargo truck caught fire and exploded inside the Yunwushan Tunnel on a highway...
CCP Corruption Exposed by Former Top Leader and Executed Police Chief
By Fu Longshan Former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Zhao Ziyang once stood at the...
China’s Guangxi Deluged By Flood-Waters From Upstream Province
Towns and villages by a major river in China's Guangxi lay half-submerged as floodwaters from a province...
China Doesn’t Have Property Taxes, But Soon It Will
Almost two decades ago, Chinese authorities began floating the idea of taxing property owners. And now...