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Posts published in “Day: June 8, 2017

B’desh: 42 still missing over alleged militancy involvement:

by Ahmed Zaeef in Prothom Alo, June 6, 2017 at 17:26 hrs .Mohammad Mohibur Rahman, a former army officer, has been missing for more than a year. Symun Hasib (Monaz), son of a former secretary has also been missing for over two and a half years. There’s no trace of marine engineer Najibullah Ansari either. Law enforcement agencies and family sources of the missing youths said they might have gone to Syria or Iraq to…

Why Qatar’s links to Islamist groups worry Beijing

by Catherine Wong in South China Morning Post, June 8, 2017 As Qatar’s diplomatic crisis continues to unfold, the tiny Gulf country’s intricate ties with Islamist groups have caused unease in China, which faces its own fight at home against extremism. Beijing has long been concerned about the influence of Islamist extremism spreading from countries such as Syria and Afghanistan into China’s northwestern Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang. Accusations by Qatar’s Arab neighbours that Doha is…

Three workers detained by police for taking photos, videos of factory

Report in Global Times, June 7, 2017 at 15:18:39 Police have detained three people in East China’s Jiangxi Province for filming and secretly taking pictures in a factory. Ganzhou’s public security bureau told the Global Times Tuesday that they have detained factory employees Su Heng, Li Zhao and Hua Haifeng for taking photos and video in the factory. The bureau added that they have seized the hard drives and laptops used to store images and…