Chinese police have dismantled more than 1,000 gangs and detained about 8,200 suspects, just 10 days after the country’s top security official announced a year-long campaign against organised crime.
The Ministry of Public Security said on Monday that the crackdown focused on crimes that had evolved into “more covert” forms and spread rapidly online.
“New types of crimes such as online predatory lending, soft-violence debt collection … coerced consumption and online harassment have become major...
Zhu Senlin, a former Guangdong governor and key enforcer of the province’s economic transformation when China was opening up in the 1990s, died on Monday aged 95, according to official media.
Nanfang Daily, mouthpiece of the Guangdong party committee, confirmed on Tuesday that Zhu had died due to illness.
Shanghai-born Zhu spent more than five decades in the southern province that neighbours Hong Kong.
He is widely remembered as a pragmatic, steady administrator who steered Guangdong through...
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