By CHRIS BUCKLEY in The NY Times online, Nov 29,2017 BEIJING — China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is pushing to establish a new anticorruption agency with sweeping powers to sidestep the courts and lock up anyone on the government payroll for months without access to a lawyer — a plan that has met surprisingly vocal opposition from some of the nation’s foremost legal minds. The proposal is audacious even by the standards of the Chinese Communist…
Posts published in November 2017
By M Kamal Mridha in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 29, 2017 at 11.02pm Natore: Miscreants have reportedly demanded Tk3 lakh as ransom from the family of Walter William Rozario, assistant priest of a Catholic Church in Natore’s Boraigram upazila, who has been missing since Monday. Walter’s elder brother Premal Rozario told the Dhaka Tribune that the demand was made through an internet call to the priest’s younger brother, Bimal Rozario, on Tuesday night. “The caller also…
Report in The Daily Star, Nov 30,2017 Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, popularly known as Santu Larma, yesterday alleged that the government did not take effective steps to implement the fundamental aspects of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord even 20 years after its signing. “Only 25 of the 72 clauses of the accord have been implemented,” Larma, president of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (PCJSS), told a press conference at a hotel in the capital. The…
by Kinling Lo in the South China Morning Post, Nov 29, 2017 General Zhang Yang, a former head of the powerful Central Military Commission’s (CMC) political work department, committed suicide last week while under investigated for corruption, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday. Zhang was one of the highest ranked military chiefs to die under a cloud since Chinese President Xi Jinping launched his anti-graft campaign after taking office in November 2012. Other prominent serving…
by Salman Tareque Sakil in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:02 AM The Jamaat-e-Islami has raised the number of party-backed candidates who would contest in constituencies across Bangladesh in the upcoming 11th parliamentary election. The party has decided to increase the number of participating candidates from 52 to 62, based on the feedback of grassroots leadership. Jamaat insiders told the Bangla Tribune that the party’s ‘election commission’ has already instructed aspirants to start strengthening…
by Mymensingh Correspondent in bdnews24.com, Nov 29, 2017 RAB has detained two men in a raid after finding weapon-making materials at a home in Mymensingh. The raid occurred early on Wednesday at a building owned by Moinuddin Ahmed in the Milonbag area of the district town, said RAB-14 Commanding Officer Lt Col Shariful Islam. The detainees are Sohel Miah, 22, and Habib. Additional details on the detainees were not available. The two had rented a…
By Wang Jiamei in Global Times, Nov 27,2017 bat 22:03:40 hrs Recent news of alleged child abuse in kindergartens and daycare centers has shocked China and sparked public outrage, begging the question of whether private capital can be trustworthy in providing public services. The instances of children suffering alleged abuse at the hands of their teachers and other facility staff indicate that there are serious problems with China’s privately owned kindergartens and daycare centers. Such…
BEIJING—A Chinese court sentenced to five years in prison a Taiwanese activist who conducted online lectures on Taiwan’s democratization and managed a fund for families of political prisoners in China. The Yueyang City Intermediate People’s Court in central China handed down the sentence on Tuesday against Taiwanese activist Lee Ming-che after finding him guilty of subversion of state power. Mr. Lee’s co-defendant, Peng Yuhua, who is from mainland China, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment.…
By Minne Chan in South China Morning Post, Nov 28, 2017 General Zhang Yang, a former head of the powerful Central Military Commission’s (CMC) political work department, committed suicide last week, Chinese state media reported on Tuesday. A source close to the former Guangzhou Military Command told the South China Morning Post Zhang, 66, hanged himself at his home in Beijing on the morning of November 23, and the news of his death had been…
by Ashutosh Sarkar &Wasim Bin Habib in The Daily Star, Nov 28, 2017 The High Court has confirmed death penalty for 139 of the 152 accused who were awarded capital punishment by a lower court for their involvement in the massacre during the BDR mutiny in 2009. Terming the offenders “most brutal” and “cold-blooded” murderers, a three-member special bench pronounced the verdict yesterday in the biggest-ever criminal case in the country’s history in terms of…
By Shariful Islam in The Daily Star, Nov 28, 2017 The High Court yesterday asked Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) to form a probe body to investigate why the intelligence unit of then BDR failed to detect the impending 2009 mutiny. A three-member bench of the High Court while delivering the verdict on death references and appeals in the sensational BDR carnage case advised the authorities to make the probe report public as soon as possible.…