David Barboza's expose on the extent of Wen Jiabao's family's "hidden riches" has won him a Putlizer. He beat out the Associated Press for its coverage in Syria and Richard Marosi of the Los Angeles Times for his work on deportation of Mexican immigrants. ...

Wen Jiabao gave his final speech before the National People’s Congress on Tuesday among a crowded room of delegates, then bowed three times to the audience and took his leave. At the end of the 12-day session, he, Hu Jintao and other party leaders will step aside as new leadership takes the reins, led by Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang as the new president and premier. Despite criticism and a dip in popularity, W ...

Chinese hackers, possibly using phishing software, reportedly broke into the New York Times's computer network four months ago and installed malware that enabled them to access the personal computers of 53 employees. All indications are that the attack is a response to the paper's investigation, led by Shanghai bureau chief David Barboza, into premier Wen Jiabao's family fortunes. The NY Times says its comp ...

We -- you, me, the world -- might see outgoing president Hu Jintao as a wan robot less charismatic than a cardboard box, but there was a time during this man's life when he was sprightly, good-humored, and jovial. Let this video -- of a speech he gave in 1984, in front of colorful balloons -- be proof. It was uploaded two months ago to Youku (embedded after the jump for those in China), uncovered on Twitter ...

They're already blocked, so fuck it, right? The New York Times has continued to delve into Wen Jiabao's "hidden family fortunes," following up on its original blockbuster that got the website blocked on the mainland. In "Lobbying, a Windfall and a Leader’s Family," David Barbosa and co. report that Wen Jiabao was directly responsible for keeping the company from breaking up. In 1999, “I humbly request that ...

Nice one, Gramps Wen. Via South China Morning Post (above image by cartoonist Harry Harrison): In a letter submitted to the Politburo Standing Committee, the party's top decision-making body of which the premier is also a member, Wen asked for a formal inquiry into claims made by The New York Times. A report on October 26 alleged his family had amassed at least US$2.7 billion of assets during his premiershi ...

The lawyers for the Wen Jiabao family issued an official statement yesterday regarding the New York Times's recent piece that got the website harmonized inside China. It's "a rare instance of a powerful Chinese political family responding directly to a foreign media report," NY Times reports. But the lawyers, while trying to deny everything, actually deny nothing. Read the translated statement closely, as b ...

On what day will the NY Times homepage be unblocked in China? Please submit your answer either in the comment section or via email. You can also tweet at us. We will try our best to send a prize to the person who nails the correct date. For context: Bloomberg has been blocked since July 2012. Sinocism has been blocked since June 2012. Blogspot has been blocked since May 2009. YouTube has been blocked since ...

While everyone else was talking about Ai Weiwei, the New York Times had the temerity to publish an explosive report about Premier Wen Jiabao, probably the most popular and ostensibly clean politician in China. Grandpa Wen, as he's affectionately called, has apparently made a lot of money for his family, but that should come as no surprise to anyone. But the Times is currently in Chinese Internet purgatory b ...