The last-known prisoner jailed for hooliganism in resisting the Chinese government’s crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement has been released ahead of the 20th anniversary of the suppression, a human rights group claimed.

THE Chinese bureaucrat who oversaw construction projects for this year’s Beijing Olympics has received a suspended death sentence for corruption in a case that involved bribery and lavish living.

China’s ruling Communist Party, reeling from a corruption epidemic that has seen senior party chiefs jailed around the country, warned today that the fight against graft was a long way from being solved.

THE Communist party boss of Shanghai has been sacked for corruption, state media said yesterday, toppling the highest leader so far in national party chief Hu Jintao’s drive to root out abuse and enforce loyalty.

The corruption investigation into Liu Zhihua, a former Beijing vice mayor who oversaw much of the $40bn (€31bn) being spent on Olympics projects, is still on-going, an Olympic planning official said today.