Posts published in “Day: May 25, 2017”

Report in Global Times, May 25, 2017 Armed men pretending to be policemen kidnapped two Chinese language teachers in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Wednesday, provincial officials said, an attack likely to raise concerns in Beijing about its huge investment plans. The Chinese embassy in Pakistan later confirmed the kidnapping of two Chinese nationals by unknown gunmen in the country’s southwest Quetta city. An official from the Chinese embassy told Xinhua that they are…

by Fawad Yousafzai in The Nation,May 25, 2017 ISLAMABAD – The CPEC long-term plan will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, much more than the $60 billion dollar estimated for the ongoing short-term plan. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project has been divided into three phases: short-term plan to be completed by 2020, mid-term plan to be completed by 2025 and long-term plan to be completed by 2030. “As per our estimates, the execution of…

By Zhao Yusha in Global Times, May 24, 2017 at 18:23 hrs A recent report about China’s “loneliest school,” which has just one teacher and one pupil, has pointed a spotlight on the dire situation of rural education in the face of massive urban migration. Xu Zefeng, the only teacher of Youcheng primary school in Central China’s Henan Province, who has been working there since 1982, told the Beijing Youth Daily that since he started…

report in The Express Tribune, May 25th, 2017. GILGIT: Every third child of primary school going age out of 10 are out of school in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B). This was revealed in the first report on the number of out-of-school children in the region prepared by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Education Department of G-B, the Federal Ministry of Education and Professional training and with support from the Lahore University of Sciences. The report,…

By KEITH BRADSHER in The NY Times, MAY 24, 2017 SHANGHAI — China has gone on a spending spree, borrowing money to build cities, create manufacturing giants and nurture financial markets — money that has helped drive the economic powerhouse in recent years. But the debt-fueled binge now threatens to sap growth in the world’s second largest economy. With its economy maturing, China has had to pile on ever more debt to keep growth going…

Xinhua report in Global Times, May 24, 2017 at 14:50:23 Liu Xinqi, former commander of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and demoted for “severe violations of Party code” including graft, authorities announced Wednesday. Liu, also former deputy secretary of the CPC committee of the XPCC, allegedly took advantage of his post to obtain benefits for others and allowed relatives to use his influence to…

By CHRIS BUCKLEY in The NY Times, MAY 24, 2017 BEIJING — Chinese people cheering on their country’s ascent sometimes comfort themselves with the idea that Asia’s other behemoth, India, is years from surpassing China’s population and decades from emerging as a potential economic peer. But Yi Fuxiang, a Chinese scientist based in Wisconsin, boldly challenged that assumption this week in Beijing. He laid out arguments that India may already be more populous than China,…

REPORT in Dawn, May 25th, 2017 ISLAMABAD: The Awami Workers Party (AWP) activists on Wednesday staged a protest in front of the National Press Club, demanding the release of their leader Baba Jan. They also sought the release of other political activists who were arrested in Gilgit-Baltistan ahead of a final hearing of a review petition by the GB Supreme Court Appellate Bench against Baba Jan’s life sentence. Baba Jan is a member of AWP’s…