Report in Global Times, June 23, 2017 A higher court in East China’s Shandong Province on Friday morning sentenced the defendant to five years in prison at the second trial for a high profile case in which a son stabbed and killed a violent debt collector while defending his mother. The Shandong Provincial Higher People’s Court sentenced Yu Huan, the defendant, to five years in prison for the crime of intentional injury caused by excessive…
Posts published in June 2017
Report in Global Times, June 22, 2017 at 20:42:49 China’s media watchdog on Thursday announced it is requiring several websites, including Sina Weibo and AcFun, to shut down its multimedia content for failing to obtain a license and for broadcasting negative social commentaries. A statement published on the website of China’s TV and film watchdog said that some websites, including Sina Weibo, AcFun, ifeng.com, did not obtain the administration’s license on audio-visual services, and ran…
by Tarek Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune, June 22, 2017 at 08:51 PM Hundreds of organisations have mushroomed across the country over the last decade, claiming to be adherents of the ruling party Awami League’s ideology. None of these organisations have official status as AL affiliates, but they nevertheless use names that appear Awami League-ish, giving them a veil of legitimacy. Individual party leaders are often seen attending events organised by such groups, but they do…
Report in Global Times Published: 2017/6/21 16:43:39 Many of China’s military airports are facing safety problems caused by the construction of high-rise buildings nearby, with many facilities being forced to relocate or close certain flight routes, the official newspaper of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) reported recently. According to an article published in the PLA Daily Wednesday, “many military airports were built in the 1960s or the 1970s, their location at that time was far…
report in Dawn, June 22nd, 2017 ISLAMABAD: In order to regulate the process of issuing visas to Chinese nationals, the Ministry of Interior on Wednesday decided to tighten the relaxed visa regime, especially for Chinese citizens visiting Pakistan on business or work-related visas. Chinese nationals seeking business visas would have to present an invitation from a recognised body at any of Pakistan’s missions in China. The ministry has also decided to discourage long-term visa extensions…
by Sarah Zheng in South China Morning Post, June 22, 2017 China’s controversial “straddling bus” – the elevated vehicle that cruises over the tops of cars – has abruptly come to the end of the road. Workers have begun dismantling the test site for the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB), a futuristic hollow-bellied bus-train hybrid which stands two metres above the road, and will demolish it by the end of the month, according to the state-run…
by Choi Chi-yuk in South China Morning Post, June 21, 2017 Chinese President Xi Jinping has taken another step towards consolidating power by appointing a member of the top party echelon day to day operation position in a newly formed committee Xi held the first plenary meeting of the Central Commission for Integrated Military and Civilian Development, a group Xi created in January to foster military and civilian capacity integration, on Tuesday, according to the…
by Wendy Wu in South China Morning Post, June 21, 2017 From mobile payments to online lending, China’s boom in “fintech” applications is creating new headaches for regulators used to supervising conventional financial deals. If regulators stay out of the financial technology explosion, the popularity of non-conventional financial services may make the state-backed financial system irrelevant. That can create huge risks, as was the case in 2015’s stock market rout. But if regulators step in…
By Hu Weijia in Global Times, June 20, 2017 at 21:33:39 The author is a reporter with the Global Times. China has created “the largest macro bubble in our lifetime,” the New York Times said recently, citing an analyst at Capital Economics. Although exaggerated rhetoric is often used by Western economists in regard to the Chinese economy, risks in the country’s financial system do deserve attention. Financial risks are mounting on the back of the…
by Abu Hayat Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune,June 21, 2017 The Awami League has started its groundwork for the 11th general elections in 2019, and the nation might see an unprecedented set of changes in the party nominations as a number of existing lawmakers are likely to be replaced by young and new faces. The ruling party has also started to make preparations to avert pre-election violence, much like the attacks by the BNP-led 20-party alliance…
Report in Dhaka Tribune,June 21, 2017 US prosecutors have accused a United Nations employee in New York of committing visa fraud by bringing into the country a domestic worker from Bangladesh and then failing to pay her a lawful wage. Hamidur Rashid, a Bangladeshi national, was charged with visa fraud, fraud in foreign labour contracting and aggravated identity theft in a criminal complaint unsealed on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. Rashid, 50, appeared at a…