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Posts published in April 2017

‘Pakistan not producing goods China needs’

Report in The Express Tribune, April 30th, 2017. ISLAMABAD: Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong has emphasised that Pakistan is not producing the goods needed in China, which is a reason behind the trade imbalance, but the situation will change when Chinese companies start producing such products. “Pakistan can enhance its exports to $35 billion for which serious efforts are needed,” he said while talking to Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI)…

China’s aircraft carrier impresses but PLA corruption is a bigger battle

By Cary Huang in South China Morning Post, , Apr 30, 2017 The author is senior writer with the South China Morning Post China’s launch of a second aircraft carrier – its first domestically built – is a major step in its ambition to make the country a “maritime power”, a status the Middle Kingdom last enjoyed just over 120 years ago. China is now the seventh country with the capability to build its own…

New chill falls over academic speech in China as retired teacher rapped for talking to foreign media

by Eva Li in South China Morning Post, Apr 28, 2017 A retired teacher at the Chinese Academy of Governance, a training school for government officials, was publicly criticised for talking to foreign media, marking a new height in Beijing’s intolerance of freedom of expression among academia. The teacher, who was not identified, was removed from his position as a vice-chairman of a society, according to a statement by the school’s leadership. It said a…

China reveals details of overseas fugitives

By Liu Xin in Global Times, Apr 27, 2017 at 23:23hrs China released Thursday detailed information about 22 corruption suspects who have fled overseas, including their possible current locations, a move experts said would deter these fugitives and help gain support from the international community on the nation’s anti-graft campaign. The information on the fugitives includes the name, gender, ID card number, former title, suspected crime, date of arrival in the current country and travel…

Four militants dead, two in custody as Operation Eagle Hunt ends

by Md Anwar Hossain Choudhury in Dhaka Tribune, April 28, 2017 Law enforcement officials concluded Operation Eagle Hunt on Thursday, after four militants blew themselves up at the militant hideout in Shibnagar village under Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj. Rajshahi Range DIG Khurshid Hossain announced the successful completion of the operation during a press briefing at 6:45pm. He was accompanied by SWAT Deputy Commissioner Proloy Kumar Joarder and Chapainawabganj Police Superintendent Mujahidul Islam. SWAT resumed the…

3 suspected members of Sarwar-Tamim’s New JMB faction held

by Nadim Hossain in Dhaka Tribune, April 28, 2017 The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has detained three members of a new faction of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) from Savar with firearms and bomb-making materials. One of the detainees is identified as Tamim Dwari. RAB 8 Company Commander Major Abdul Hakim said: “Acting on a tip-off, we searched a bus of Village Line when it reached Fulbaria bus stand area and detained…

Iran criticizes Pakistan over militant groups’ use of its soil

Xinhua report in Global Times, Apr 28, 2017 Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday criticized the Pakistani government for its “failure” to protect its borders against militant groups who recently killed Iranian border guards in a cross-border attack, Tasnim news agency reported. Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said Pakistan should be held accountable for the presence and operation of militant groups in its territory. The Islamic republic will spare no efforts to follow up on the issue through…

‘Pakistan’s looming political instability and China’

Report in The News, Apr 27, 2017 LAHORE: An article published in China.org.cn says the latest verdict by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers case has created more confusion than resolving anything.(http://www.china.org.cn/opinion/2017-04/25/content_40686473.htm) The judgment came at a crucial juncture when the country was slowly recovering from the senseless violence by militants and its economy was showing signs of health, it added. The article says Pakistan is just recovering from more than a decade of…

Chinese presidential ally steps down as Zhejiang chief ahead of power reshuffle

by Minnie Chan & Choi Chi-yuk in South China Morning Post, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:36pm Xia Baolong, a well-known hardliner and close aide to Chinese President Xi Jinping, has been replaced as Zhejiang Communist Party chief ahead of a major power reshuffle due in autumn. Xia had stepped down from the province’s top job and was succeeded by Che Jun, a low-key political rising star, state-run ­Xinhua reported on Wednesday. A Zhejiang source told…

American woman convicted of spying by Chinese court

AFP report in South China Morning Post, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:09pm A Chinese court has sentenced an American woman to 3½ years in prison and deportation on espionage charges, a US-based rights group said Wednesday, although details about her fate remain unclear. Sandy Phan-Gillis was detained in March 2015 at the Macau border after visiting mainland China with a trade delegation from the Texas oil capital Houston. She was accused of espionage and stealing…

‘JMB’s bomb expert’ arrested in city : Daily Star report, Apr 27, 2017

Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested an improvised explosive device (IED) expert of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in the capital’s Uttara early yesterday. Mushfiqur Rahman Jeni, 28, belonged to JMB’s “Sarwar-Tamim Group” and was working on producing remote-controlled IEDs, said Jahangir Hossain Matubbar, commanding officer of Rab-10, at a press briefing at Rab media centre in Karwan Bazar. Son of a late civil engineer of Comilla’s Burichang, Mushfiqur got admitted to computer science and…