by Zhou Xin in the South China Morning Post, June 9, 2017 Islamic State has killed two Chinese citizens it kidnapped in Pakistan last month, Reuters reported, citing the militant group’s Amaq news agency on Thursday. Armed men pretending to be policemen kidnapped two Chinese-language teachers in the Pakistani city of Quetta on May 24. “Islamic State fighters killed two Chinese people they had been holding in Baluchistan province, southwest Pakistan,” Amaq said. Phone calls…
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by Eva Li in the South China Morning Post, June 8, 2017 at 11:17pm On the 60th anniversary of the start of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong’s campaign against intellectuals that saw some half a million people persecuted by the Communist Party, some present-day scholars say there is again growing pressure from the authorities to silence liberal voices. Since the administration of President Xi Jinping took over in late 2012, the authorities have tightened ideological…
Report in The Daily Star, June 09, 2017 Two alleged members of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Chuadanga and Rajbari early yesterday, while police shot dead two suspected robbers in Naogaon. Local leader of PBCP Oltu Mondol, 40, was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Khashkarra village of Chuadanga’s Alamdanga, reports our Kushtia correspondent. Some criminals opened fire on a Rab patrol team…