by Stephen Chen in South China Morning Post, 27 August, 2017, 11:03pm Every year in April, Jiang Xingquan sets aside part of his farm in northern China to grow cannabis. The size of the plot varies with market demand but over the last few years it has been about 600 hectares. Like every other hemp farmer in Hexin in Heilongjiang province near the Russian border, Jiang is growing the plant legally. The growers sell the…
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Xinhua report in Global Times Aug 28, 2017 Two former officials of the welfare lottery distribution and management center under the Ministry of Civil Affairs were expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and dismissed from public office for corruption and violating the Party’s code of conduct. The center’s former director Bao Xuequan acted against the Party’s eight-point frugality code by using an office that was bigger than the standard, according a statement by…
y’s combat ability: expert By Liu Caiyu in Global Times Published: 2017/8/27 23:03:39 The promotion of Li Zuocheng as the new military chief of staff demonstrates China’s determination to improve the military’s combat capability, experts said on Sunday. According to the Ministry of National Defense, Li Zuocheng has been promoted to the post of chief of the Joint Staff Department of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), replacing Fang Fenghui. The ministry didn’t directly announce Li…
Report in Prothom Alo, Aug 27, 2017 at 21:39 hrs A suspected militant was killed in a bomb explosion at a house in Kashor of Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh on Sunday evening, reports news agency UNB. The deceased could not be identified yet. Officer-in-charge of Bhaluka police station Mamunur Rashid said the bomb went off at the house around 6:00pm. The deceased ‘militant’ along with his wife and a child rented the house only three…