China Business Journal reported on April 12 that the trial of former CCTV host Rui Chenggang and related cases would open soon.

Officials in the Chinese Communist Party and government were involved in over 700,000 extramarital affairs in 2014, according to Hong Kong media.

Former Chinese communist leaders Jiang Zemin and Zeng Qinghong were absent from a mourning list of dozens of high level leaders and retired officials invited to the funeral of a former party secretary of Shaanxi Province, hinting at the fading power of Jiang.

China Unicom one of China’s largest state-run telecommunications firms has systems in place to listen in on phone calls and track the locations of its users. The findings were posted on Jan. 8 by a user nicknamed “Bystander Jia” to WooYun.org,—a website where security researchers report vulnerabilities and vendors give feedback.

Outspoken law professor Zhang Qianfan at China’s Peking University says the Party’s official view on constitutionalism is “against humanity.”