The Chinese Communist Party has placed its official in charge of the large northern municipality of Tianjin under investigation for possible corruption, the national anti-graft watchdog said late Saturday. Huang Xingguo, 62, was suspected of “serious violation of disciplines”, a term that usually refers to corruption, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Huang was made mayor of Tianjin in 2007 and took on the additional role of acting party secretary in 2014 but…
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Karachi: A judicial magistrate on Saturday remanded three Chinese nationals and nine Pakistanis to the prison for 14 days for allegedly smuggling freshwater, black pond turtles. The court also allowed the Sindh Wildlife Department to immediately release the confiscated turtles into their habitat. The accused, including three Chinese nationals who are real brothers, were arrested by the Sindh Wildlife Department on Friday night from two different locations in Karachi when a team of officials, led-by…
BEIJING — A Chinese court on Tuesday sentenced a human rights activist who had criticized the government to a suspended three-year term in prison, in the first of several trials apparently intended to showcase the Communist Party’s hard-line attitude toward dissent. The activist, Zhai Yanmin, was arrested last year as part of a sweeping crackdownon human rights lawyers and their associates. He pleaded guilty on Tuesday to subverting state power, according to state news media,…
China’s growing population of so-called ethical hackers, who have long existed in a legal gray area, fear a government crackdown after authorities took away the founder of its largest independent community. Fang Xiaodun, a security engineer, set up Wooyun in 2010 as an online platform for Chinese hackers who work to help protect vulnerable networks. The community had about 20,000 registered users when it suddenly shut down on July 19. It hasn’t reopened since. Unclear…
Religious extremism is spreading in China faster than before, and its impact is greater than ever, affecting Chinese cities and even students on campus, experts warned. A young man from Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region died in Syria after he was recruited by the Islamic State group, a religious expert told a seminar held in Shanghai Tuesday. The seminar was co-organized by Nangyang Technology University’s Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore, the Shanghai…
In the aftermath of Bangladesh’s 9/11 and the killings of twenty innocent people at the Holey Artisan Bakery, Bangladesh is at crossroads. What choice Bangladesh makes now will determine the future of the country and its 150 million people. Whether the country and the government adapts a transparent policy position, gives up silly pride and petty politics, or whether the government will continue to obfuscate and play politics will determine if the country can emerge…
Over the weekend ISIS dispelled any doubts that it was behind the terror attack in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In doing so, the group provided another example of its growing footprint in Asia — and opened up another theater in its contest with al Qaeda. Both groups have been trying to raise their profile in Bangladesh by taking advantage of growing Islamist militancy there. They have co-opted or affiliated with home-grown jihadist groups. Al Qaeda has formed…
“The militant network can be dismantled only after their arrests,” a high official of Detective Branch (DB) police requesting anonymity told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday. The official also said a number of banned homegrown militant outfit are indoctrinating people outside of Dhaka to get involved in killings in the capital. The official who is working to hunt down militant network also said they had so far been able to identify two locations – one in…
The US attorney’s office in Manhattan has opened an investigation of the cyber heist of $81 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a law enforcement source said. Preet Bharara, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, is investigating the February crime, in which criminals used the SWIFT fund-transfer network to steal money from Bangladesh’s central bank. Bharara’s office declined to comment. The source spoke on…
Dhaka: Golam Faizullah Fahim, one of the three attackers who badly hacked a Madaripur college teacher on Wednesday, has admitted to be a member of banned militant outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir, says the district police chief. Faizullah told interrogators that he had joined Hizb-ut Tahrir very recently. Some “former students” of Uttara High School and College in Dhaka and two staff of a book shop near the college persuaded him into joining the organisation. He had…
Dhaka: The head Hindu priest of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission in the capital has received a threat on his life. Mission authorities said a man handed over a letter containing the threat to a mission staff around Wednesday noon. The letter did not name anyone but mentioned the top preacher of the mission as the recipient. Syed Nurul Islam, deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, last night quoted the letter: “Leave the country while…