Xinhua report in Global Times, June 16, 2017 A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has required increased publicity work in preparation for the 19th CPC National Congress scheduled for later this year. Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks during an inspection tour from Tuesday to Thursday in central China’s Hunan Province. He said the publicity work should show the progress made by…
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by Jane Cai in The South China Morning Post, June 16, 2017 at 11.23pm Of the 70 or so economic indicators produced by various Chinese government agencies, three are particularly untrustworthy – the figures for the jobless rate, fixed asset investment and personal income, according to a leading investment bank. In a research note published on Thursday by China International Capital Corporation (CICC), the bank’s economists, led by Liang Hong, wrote that the fixed-asset investment…
Former senior political advisor under graft investigation Xinhua report, 2017/6/16 at 18:31:54 Sun Huaishan, a former senior political advisor, is under investigation on suspicion of accepting bribes, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) announced Friday. The SPP said Sun has been placed under “coercive measures,” which may include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention or arrest. Sun was formerly a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee…
Xinhua report Published: 2017/6/16 at 16:48:40 China will dispatch 10,000 teachers to Xinjiang and Tibet autonomous regions to support local education. Currently, 1,500 teachers from other provinces are in Xinjiang and Tibet. They train local education staff and share resources. Another batch of 4,000 teachers will be selected and sent to the regions soon, according to a meeting held in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Thursday. Recognizing the program as beneficial to…
by Alice Yan & Mimi Lau in South China Morning Post, June 16, 2017 at 11.50pm Chinese police have identified a 22-year-old male suspect they believe detonated a bomb outside a kindergarten in Jiangsu province on Thursday who was one of eight people killed in the explosion, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Investigators made the discovery after scouring the scene and surveillance videos as well as DNA analysis, according to the report. The suspect, identified only…
Edit in Prothom Alo, Jun 14, 2017 at 13:22 There is hardly any use of nabbing so many militants in such effective operations if they are simply released again on bail. It is a matter of concern that over the past six months, 148 militants have been set free in this manner. It is very important to determine the loopholes in the law through which they are slipping out. After all, there are several instances…
By Nazrul Islam in Prothom Alo, Jun 13, 2017, 20.07 hrs Over the past six months, a total of 148 militants in the country have been released on bail from the Kashimpur central jail. Alleged Neo-JMB leader Abdur Rauf was arrested from Dhaka in January this year and gave a confessional statement in court. On 2 June he was released on bail from the Kashimpur central jail. On the same day, alleged JMB member Saleh…
Forced to lay low since they had to retreat from the streets in face of police crackdown more than two years ago, the Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, is trying to get back in the game by infiltrating other student organisations. Sources in different political and independent student bodies told the Dhaka Tribune that Shibir members are joining their ranks in disguise and then using those organisations’ identities and resources to spread…
Report in Dawn, June 17th, 2017 ISLAMABAD: The interior ministry has cancelled the visa of a Korean national identified as Juan Won Seo, owner of the ARK Info Tech Institute in Quetta where two Chinese nationals had come to learn the Urdu language before they were abducted and allegedly executed by the militant Islamic State group. According to sources, the North Korean national arrived in Pakistan on a business visa and opened an Urdu academy…
Report in The Nation, June 17, 2017 News desk: The Chinese nationals, reportedly abducted and killed by Islamic State militants, were offered security by the interior ministry but they refused to accept the offer. The ministry has also cancelled the visa of a South Korean national who it had earlier linked to the abduction incident. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar was earlier told that the Chinese couple had gone to Quetta and were engaged in preaching…
Report in The Express Tribune, June 17th, 2017. MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Minister for Finance and Development Dr Najeeb Naqi on Friday said that his government is committed to bring about social and economic development of the people which is evident from the allocations for the development and social sectors in the Budget 2017-18. “Budget for fiscal year 2017-18 is quite focused on development and social sectors besides huge allocations have been made…