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Posts published in “Day: June 22, 2017

Pakistan to tighten visa regime with China:

report in Dawn, June 22nd, 2017 ISLAMABAD: In order to regulate the process of issuing visas to Chinese nationals, the Ministry of Interior on Wednesday decided to tighten the relaxed visa regime, especially for Chinese citizens visiting Pakistan on business or work-related visas. Chinese nationals seeking business visas would have to present an invitation from a recognised body at any of Pakistan’s missions in China. The ministry has also decided to discourage long-term visa extensions…

It was all just hype: China’s ‘straddling bus’ dream reaches end

by Sarah Zheng in South China Morning Post, June 22, 2017 China’s controversial “straddling bus” – the elevated vehicle that cruises over the tops of cars – has abruptly come to the end of the road. Workers have begun dismantling the test site for the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB), a futuristic hollow-bellied bus-train hybrid which stands two metres above the road, and will demolish it by the end of the month, according to the state-run…