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                    [Title] => CNN Beijing bureau chief signs off
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He describes himself as an “accidental tourist” who originally planned to stay for only three weeks in China.

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China's notoriously opaque courts have suddenly embraced social media to provide a window into their proceedings, to boost a skeptical public's confidence in the country's Communist Party-controlled legal system.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-02 03:15:33 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1267352 [AuthorName] => Didi Tang [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1238371 [Title] => Vendor's execution draws Chinese public's sympathy [Summary] =>

A Chinese street vendor convicted of killing two city officials was executed yesterday despite calls for leniency, disappointing legal activists and many members of the public who say the country's justice system fails to protect the underprivileged and punishes them too harshly.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-26 06:32:41 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1267352 [AuthorName] => Didi Tang [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1237073 [Title] => High-speed justice [Summary] =>

Through their homegrown Twitter, the Chinese learned yesterday that Bo Xilai, once one of their most powerful “princelings,” had been sentenced to life for accepting $3.3 million in bribes.

[DatePublished] => 2013-09-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1236908 [Title] => Bo Xilai sentenced to life in prison [Summary] =>

Bo Xilai, former secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a former member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Sunday for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power.

 
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In the light of recent developments, some interesting questions and proposals have cropped up.

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Ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai on Saturday mocked a former city official's testimony that he embezzled government funds with a phone call to his wife, denying the latest allegation in a politically charged trial that's laid bare tales of greed, machinations and betrayal in one of China's elite families.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-24 15:00:36 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1339200 [AuthorName] => Gillian Wong [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/294/hwme.jpg ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1129701 [Title] => Trial shows greed, machinations of China's elite [Summary] =>

Greed, machinations and betrayal in one of China's elite families were on display Friday when prosecutors in the corruption trial of disgraced politician Bo Xilai released testimony from his wife on a businessman's gifts to the family that included a French villa and plane tickets to three continents.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-24 03:32:48 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1339200 [AuthorName] => Gillian Wong [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/5826/agu2.jpg ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1115731 [Title] => Ousted China leader's trial caps dramatic downfall [Summary] =>

Only a few people heard it, but when one of China's most prominent politicians slapped his police chief across the face, it would end up reverberating far and wide.

[DatePublished] => 2013-08-21 03:03:37 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1339200 [AuthorName] => Gillian Wong [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1108391 [Title] => Fallen Chinese political star to go on trial [Summary] =>

Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai goes on trial Thursday on corruption charges in a case crafted to minimize damage to the Communist Party and avoid exposure of party infighting or human rights abuses.

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