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Posts published in “Day: September 27, 2017

Xinjiang installs body scanners at checkpoints

By Zhao Yusha in Global Times, Sept 27, 2017 Tumxuk (Xinjiang): Xinjiang will use a new high-tech body security scanner for road security checks, a move to enhance counter-terrorism work before the forthcoming 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). A division from the People’s Liberation Army in Tumxuk, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, recently introduced 10 units of terahertz security scanners, which were installed at road security checkpoints. “It took…

China’s mortgage debt bubble raises spectre of 2007 US crisis

By He Huifeng in South China Morning Post, Sept 27, 2017 Young Chinese like Eli Mai, a sales manager in Guangzhou, and Wendy Wang, an executive in Shenzhen, are borrowing as much money as possible to buy boomtown flats even though they cannot afford the repayments. Behind the dream of property ownership they share with many like-minded friends lies an uninterrupted housing price rally in major Chinese cities that dates back to former premier Zhu…

‘Conspiracies against Hasina within AL too’: Report

Report in ProthomAlo, Sept 27, 2017 HasinaRuling Awami League organising secretary Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury on Tuesday said conspiracies against prime minister Sheikh Hasina are being hatched not just internationally but inside the party, too. “The real intention of these conspirators is unmasked in times of crisis. We’ve seen this during the emergency government after 1/11 (11 January 2007 takeover),” he said. Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury made the observation at a meeting of Dhaka South Awami League…