ON SUNDAY, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, the ruling Party's top anti-graft watchdog, announced that Xiang Junbo, chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, is under investigation for suspected serious violations of discipline. Xiang's case shows the disciplinary watchdog will not only continue fighting corruption, but also further regulate the insurance industry, says Beijing Youth Daily:
FOUR DEFENDANTS were prosecuted on Friday in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, because of their involvement in the production and use of illegal cooking oil that was used by a local hotpot restaurant. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Sunday:
ALIBABA, China's largest e-commerce enterprise, revealed that by the end of March, the holders of 83 trademarks had complained against more than 15,000 retailers on its platforms for selling more than 110,000 goods that used terms in their advertising slogans or their products' names for which they hold trademarks. The retailers paid about 1 million yuan ($145,000) in "trademark use fees". The legislature, judicial and administrative authorities must work together to address the issue of malicious trademark registration as soon as possible. Beijing News comments:
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Although Haruki Murakami mentions the Nanjing Massacre only a few times in his latest, thousand-page novel Killing Commendatore, the book and the author have drawn the ire of right-wing forces in Japan. In fact, Japan's mainstream news portals are full of criticisms against the novel.
About four decades ago, Shenzhen was a small fishing town with about 30,000 residents immediately north of Hong Kong. Today, it has grown into a high-tech economic powerhouse, covering about 2,000 square kilometers with about 11 million people - which is roughly the population of Belgium - China's answer to Silicon Valley in the United States.
The just concluded meeting between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump struck a strong and welcome note of certainty in the relations between China and the US.
After a local petroleum chemical plant in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, introduced a public air quality monitoring system for its production area last year, people's concerns about emissions from the plant have decreased significantly.
ON FRIDAY, GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL HIGH PEOPLE'S COURT acquitted Guo Li, who had been convicted and imprisoned for the crime of blackmail in January 2010 after he asked for 3 million yuan ($434,973) in compensation from a dairy company whose milk was found to have been contaminated with melamine, which he said was responsible for his 2-year-old daughter's kidney problems. Beijing News comments:
ON FRIDAY, THE LUZHOU MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE to announce the conclusions of an investigation into the death of Zhao Xin, a 14-year-old middle school student who was found dead at the foot of his dormitory building on April 1. According to the autopsy results and relevant investigations, it was concluded that Zhao died after falling from the fifth floor and that rumors he was beaten to death by the sons of five officials were groundless. That rumor had triggered a lot of public rage. Beijing Youth Daily comments:
AS EARLY AS February 2009, the local court of Tianxin in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan province, ruled that the Wujialing sub-district office should pay its debt of 1.7 million yuan ($246,484) plus a late payment penalty to a technological company. However, the latter did not implement the ruling until the court published the incident on its official micro blog account. Gmw.cn comments:
As expected, President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump worked to forge personal trust and a working partnership during their just-concluded talks in Florida.
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