The country may have dodged a bullet with Ms Guo’s underhanded enterprise getting exposed, and now with the relatively quick action by a court to banish her from civic life.

Even in the magic-realist world of Philippine politics, where extraordinary tales of intrigue, duplicity, and absurdity in ...

China may also have conflicting agendas. Former Yatai CEO She Zhijiang, now in a Thai prison fighting extradition, claims he was originally recruited by China’s Ministry of State Security and ordered ...

Kaja Sokola told jurors that she had come to New York seeking stardom. She encountered Harvey Weinstein in a club and met him for lunch. Then, she said, he took advantage of her.

Wang passed himself off as a Filipino citizen in the corporate papers of Avia International Club, a company with links to an entity controlled by another dubious character, self-confessed Chinese spy ...

She Zhijiang's colleagues took us on a tour, highlighting the newly paved streets, the luxury villas, the trees – "Mr She believes in making a green city," they told us.

But Yatai, She Zhijiang's company which built the city, paints a very different vision of Shwe Kokko in its promotional videos – as a resort city, a safe holiday destination for Chinese tourists ...

China-born She Zhijiang claims he received inhumane treatment in a Thai prison, including violence that has left him unable to stand ...

China-born She Zhijiang claims he received inhumane treatment" in a Thai prison, including violence that has left him unable to stand, according to a letter his lawyers sent to Interpol and seen ...

Thailand has strongly denied allegations of mistreatment against She Zhijiang, a gambling tycoon detained in Bangkok and currently fighting extradition to ...