By Shan Jie in Global Times, July 28, 2017 at 22:38:39 Chinese experts have urged investors to be wary of products that offer suspiciously high returns after an alleged pyramid scheme organization was broken recently. “A principle is that if the rate of return is too high, that is to say several times the usual average, it must be a pyramid scheme,” Hu Xingdou, an economics professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology, told the…
Posts published in July 2017
By Jun Mai in South China Morning Post, July 29, 2017 President Xi Jinping’s troubled early years are described in detail in a recent article by official media, underlining the political strongman’s firm determination to serve the Communist Party amid his family’s harsh political persecution. Xi had written 10 letters of application for membership in the Communist Party before finally being admitted as a member of a stained family, according to the article on Friday…
by Jun Mai & Sarah Zheng in South China Morning Post, July 29, 2017 A top Communist Party publication has spelled out that President Xi Jinping was personally behind Beijing’s high-handed approach to disputes in the East and South China seas. An editorial on Friday in Study Times – put out by the Central Party School, the Communist Party’s top academy – was the latest to lavish praise on Xi for his tough stance on…
by Stephen Chen in South China Morning Post, July 28, 2017 at 11 pm More than 480 Chinese doctors and academics associated with published research papers that were later deemed to be fraudulent will be punished for damaging the country’s “international reputation”, the government said on Thursday. The announcement came after major US academic publishing house Springer in April retracted 107 papers by Chinese authors that had been published in the journal Tumor Biology. After…
By MEHREEN ZAHRA-MALIK in The New York Times online, July 27, 2017 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Dr. Faisal Ranjha was examining a patient in the crowded critical-care unit of his hospital in northeastern Pakistan when a federal officer abruptly walked in, seized his cellphone and told him he was under arrest. Officers took him home to scoop up his laptop and the tablet computer on which his 8-year-old son was playing games, then drove the doctor…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, July 28th, 2017 WASHINGTON: In a rare display of agreement on the Afghan issue, the United States and Pakistan have both reiterated the need for including the Taliban in the Afghan peace process. Yet differences over the alleged presence of militant safe havens in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) continue to plague a decades-old relationship between the two countries. “One of the things that the Secretary [of State] feels…
by Nectar Gan in South China Morning Post, July 28, 2017 Officials in the top ranks of the party, government and military were summoned this week to Beijing for a two-day seminar to study President Xi Jinping’s speeches and to gear up for a key, once-every-five-years Communist Party congress this autumn. The preparatory meeting, which ended on Thursday, came just days before an annual gathering of incumbent and retired party leaders in the seaside resort…
by Salman Tarek Shakil in Dhaka Tribune, July 28, 2017 Draft syllabuses and curricula of this proposed new education system have already been prepared by the foundation’s research department Bangladesh Islamic Foundation is moving forward with plans to launch its own line of madrasas where Urdu and Arabic will be given priority. Draft syllabuses and curricula of this proposed new education system have already been prepared by the foundation’s research department. Currently, there are two…
Report in the daily star, July 28, 2017 Police claimed to have arrested a “Neo JMB” leader, who carried arms and grenades used in the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in Dhaka’s Gulshan on July 1 last year, in Singra upazila of Natore early today. Arrestee Abu Jara alias Rash, one of the key planners of the militant attack, had carried arms and grenades from Chapainawabganj to Dhaka for the attack, Asaduzzaman, superintendent of police in…
By Shan Jie in Global Times, July 26, 2017, at 22:18:39 Beijing police said on Wednesday that 67 members of the pyramid investment organization Shanxinhui have been detained for disturbing social order after their illegal gathering in the streets on Monday. “Whether the members of Shanxinhui gathered in Beijing were investors or supporters, they should have trusted the law and resorted to legal means instead of gathering in the street,” Zhi Zhenfeng, a legal expert…
report in bdnews24.com, July 26, 2017 at 23.21hrs A Pakistani poet has demanded punishment for his fellow countrymen who committed war crimes during Bangladesh’s Liberation War. Young people in Pakistan should get their government to realise the need to apologise to Bangladesh, poet Ahmad Salim told a discussion in Dhaka on Wednesday. “Pakistan has not taken lessons from the past. Bangladesh is now a reality. It has done better in development and in maintaining sovereignty.…