Couple’s house torn down after three-year standoff

CHINESE authorities have torn down a couple’s house after a three-year standoff that captivated the nation, a witness and state media said yesterday.

Wu Ping and Yang Wu have been fighting off bulldozers in downtown Chongqing since 2004, when they were one of 280 households asked to make way for a redevelopment project in the booming southwestern city of nearly 28 million.

Their two-story brick building was clawed into dust by an earth mover as a few dozen reporters and people looked on late Monday night, according to one witness, Zhou Shuguang.