PUBLISHED : Thursday, 21 May, 2015, 10:19am
UPDATED : Thursday, 21 May, 2015, 10:39am
May 21: Government approves big spending on railways; TV drama with grenade in crotch scene suspended
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China's railway system is one of the busiest transport industries in the country. Photo: EPA
Politics and Policies
13 provinces have appointed new chiefs of discipline commissions since Xi Jinping took over as the Party secretary. 11 of the appointees are not local to the provinces. (thepaper.cn)
Chinese wikipedia, which was only selectively censored in China before, has been fully blocked since May 19th, according to GreatFire.org.
Diplomacy and Defence
China is strongly concerned over the case of six Chinese nationals charged with economic espionage in the United States, foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said. (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
China has urged Myanmar to fully investigate a bombing in Yunnan province that injured five Chinese, after Myanmese military officials said rebels had engineered the incident to damage ties between the two countries (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Economy
The top economy planning body this week approved railway projects worth 450 billion yuan (US$73 billion) in total. (Beijing Business Today)
Society
Parents in Beijing's Fengtai district put up tents and placed cushions as they started queueing outside a well-regarded school five day before it opened for limited applications. (Beijing Youth Daily)
The film and television regulator suspended the broadcast of a TV drama depicting China’s war against Japan after a scene of a female character hiding a grenade in her crotch drew widespread ridicule on the internet. (Xinhua)
Sixteen people in the southwestern city of Guiyang are missing after the collapse of a nine-story residential building following a landslide. (The Beijing Times)
The drivers of a Ferrari and Lamborghini that crashed in Beijing, in what was dubbed the ‘Fast and Furious’ incident, are found guilty of dangerous driving and sentenced to four and five months in prison today. (The Beijing News)
Tech
Are China’s investors fuelling their own version of a dotcom bubble? The tech-heavy start-up board ChiNext index has more than doubled this year making it the hottest share market in the world. (Reuters)
Huawei Technologies, the world’s biggest telecommunications equipment maker, is the latest tech giant to present its own take on the ’Internet of Things’, centred on an operating system designed to allow household and business appliances to communicate with each other online. (Reuters)
