Media Report
- Reuters reported that Air quality in China's largest cities continued to improve during the first six months of 2016, the country's environment ministry said on Sunday. China's largest 338 cities enjoyed more clean air days in the first half compared with the same period of 2015, the ministry said on its website. It said 76.7 percent of January-June days had clean air, an increase of four percentage points from a year earlier. In the capital Beijing, levels of PM 2.5 - dangerous tiny pollutants - fell 17.9 percent from a year earlier, the ministry said.
- Reuters reports that China has extradited its first criminal suspect from Latin America following eight years of negotiations, repatriating an alleged crude soybean oil smuggler from Peru who has been on the run for 18 years, the country's customs bureau said on Sunday. The General Administration of Customs said on its website that Huang Haiyong, evaded over 700 million yuan ($104.69 million) in taxes between 1996 to 1998 through selling 107,000 tonnes of smuggled crude soybean oil. Huang and his two associates fled to the United Sates in 1998 and Interpol issued a global arrest warrant for Huang in 2001 at the request of Chinese authorities, the customs bureau said.He was caught by Interpol in Peru in 2008 and the two countries began negotiating his repatriation, but Huang appealed against returning to China citing the death penalty and risk of torture, it said.
- Reuters reports that Communist Party officials in China who show poor leadership that causes serious problems will face punishment under new accountability rules unveiled late on Sunday, in the latest effort to improve discipline amid a corruption crackdown.The rules especially target leaders in local anti-graft bodies and holds them responsible for "serious consequences caused by negligence or poor work performance", the official Xinhua news agency said.Officials will be held accountable for party rule violations as well as poor work performance, it added.Similar rules already exist, but the new ones tighten up procedures and punishments, which range from public naming and shaming to administrative warnings and dismissal, Xinhua said.
Calendar
- 2016-07-15 China media again touts plans to float nuclear reactors in disputed South China Sea
- 2016-07-14 China’s actions in South China Sea seen as defying ruling
- 2016-07-13 China on Pace to Meet Economic Targets This Year, Premier Says
- 2016-07-12 Beijing’s South China Sea Claims Rejected by Hague Tribunal
- 2016-07-11 China Intensifies Opposition Ahead of South China Sea Ruling
- 2016-07-10 Beijing to make good on investment pledge at EU-China summit
- 2016-07-08 US Says S China Sea Tribunal Ruling Presents Choice for Asia
- 2016-07-07 S.Korea, U.S. formally decide to deploy THAAD missile defence
- 2016-07-06 China paper warns US of ‘price’ to pay in South China Sea
- 2016-07-05 China says wants peace after newspaper warns on South China Sea clash
News
- The Washington Post Vietnam police detain dozens in anti-China protest
- Bloomberg China Oil, Coal Buying Seen Sustained as Supply at Home Dwindles
- Bloomberg Bears Withdraw From China Large-Cap ETF Amid Credit Spurt: Chart
- Bloomberg Hong Kong Campaign Seeks to Pressure China to Drop City's Leader
- Forbes Chinese Bomber Buzzes Philippines' Scarborough Shoal In Latest Salvo Of US-China Signalling War
- Wall Street Journal Tencent President Uses Supercell Deal to Go Global
- Reuters China will struggle to maintain growth pace for wages: statistics bureau
Commentary
- Wall Street Journal Why China Hacks
- www.npr.org In South China Sea Dispute, Filipinos Say US Credibility Is On The Line
- www.newsweek.com US Needs New South China Sea Strategy To Contain Beijing
- Wall Street Journal China's Breakneck Development Brings Flooding in Its Wake
- www.huffingtonpost.com Vietnam Careful, Not Jubilant After South China Sea Ruling Against China
- nationalinterest.org $5 Trillion Meltdown: What If China Shuts Down the South China Sea?
- nationalinterest.org South China Sea After the Tribunal Ruling: Where Do We Go From Here?
- New York Times An Unfinished Bridge, and Partnership, Between Russia and China
- www.huffingtonpost.com Beijing and the South China Sea: Why it Matters