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Bo Xilai police chief to face trial next week

AFP – Bo Xilai’s former right-hand man will go on trial next week, a court said, the latest stage in a scandal that has rocked China’s Communist party before a once-a-decade power handover. Wang Lijun’s flight to the US consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu earlier this year kicked off the scandal.