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Former oil baron Jiang Jiemin pleads guilty in court to massive bribery and abusing his position.

The General Manager of PetroChina, the biggest oil company in China, has been taken away by anti-corruption investigators.

Two associates of former Chinese security boss Zhou Yongkang face trials.

Following the expulsion of the Chinese regime’s former security czar, Zhou Yongkang, 521 of his associates were arrested and another 13 escaped overseas, according to a top-level internal memo of the Chinese regime.

Now that the “big tiger” Zhou Yongkang has been taken down, China’s state-run media have turned on him. They are reporting rumors he murdered his ex-wife.

The World Journal, an overseas Chinese newspaper, says that the murder of a Houston man and his family relates to Zhou Yongkang, the former Chinese security boss.

China National Petroleum Corporation, the largest petroleum company in China, is selling gas with 40 times the acceptable level of water, causing motorists to incur auto repair costs.

If you don’t do well heading one of China’s state-run enterprises, you won’t just get fired. You will also be prosecuted for corruption charges, whether the charges have any basis in fact or not. This is what happened to the former chairman of China’s largest oil company, PetroChina Co. Ltd., Jiang Jiemin.

No sooner had the trial of disgraced former Politburo member Bo Xilai come to an end, than investigations of current and former top officers of PetroChina were announced. Those named are being referred to in the Chinese Communist Party’s press as “tigers”—top Party officials, but the real targets are likely to be individuals who were recently among the most powerful figures in the CCP.

A serious fire burned through a major grain base in northern China on Friday, while netizens suspected the initial story that it was a mere accident.

Deleting online posts has become China’s latest get-rich-quick opportunity. Some web portals have what they call in-house public relations companies, which charge clients to delete unflattering posts.

Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. is taking issue with a news report suggesting that China’s largest state-controlled oil company, PetroChina, could be contracted to build the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline project.