If Xi Jinping can establish control over the PLA Ground Force, relations between India and China will settle down to an even keel. The next few weeks will show whether Xi has finally succeeded in gaining control over the PLA Ground Force. That could bring about the substantive shift in India-China relations that both our leaders have been working for, observes Ambassador Prabhat Shukla.
The syndicate used "stooge" bank accounts and shell companies to transfer the largest amount linked to a single case recorded in the city, the Customs and Excise Department of Hong Kong said.
Guo Xinzhen went missing in September 1997, at age two-and-a-half years abducted by human traffickers while he was playing near the family home in Liaocheng.
China's government has told police across the country to get tough on prostitution, gambling and drugs following an expose in the "sin city" of Dongguan, where a crackdown on prostitution led to the detention of nearly 1,000 people this month.
A confrontation with the Taliban in Kabul in this fading light of a twilight zone would have been sheer madness, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The Chinese police have arrested a man believed to be a serial killer targetting mostly young males in southwest China's Yunnan province and charged him with 11 murders.
Tibetan monks and migrant Chinese workers have both dared to defy Chinese authorities, says B Raman
He murdered his parents because they refused to repay his debts and also murdered 17 neighbours, including children, to cover up his crimes.
The terrorists of the East Turkistan movement in the restive Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uygur region were sent from abroad to carry out anti-Olympic terrorist attacks, the Ministry of Public Security spokesman Wu Heping said. Wu claimed that the terrorists had plotted the kidnapping of foreign journalists, tourists and athletes during the Beijing Olympics with the goal of destroying the event by creating trouble, to attract international attention.
The fact that the two terrorists could mount the attack on August 4 despite the round-up of over a hundred suspected Uighur militants by the Chinese police since the beginning of this year underlines the continuing weaknesses of the Chinese ministry of public security, which is responsible for internal intelligence.
A 19-year-old woman suspect has confessed her role in the foiled terror attempt to crash a Beijing-bound passenger aircraft from Urumqi recently, China said. Guzalinur Turdi, an Uygur ethnic, carried a camouflaged destructive device on board the plane after deceiving the airport security personnel but failed (in her attempt), China's Ministry of Public Security said in a statement.
"The law will define what kind of activities are terrorist activities and measures to be taken in fighting terrorist activities," deputy director of the counter-terrorism bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, Zhao Yongchen said.
According to an analytical report, about 130 million violations of traffic rules by drivers last year led to more than 76,000 deaths, down 16 per cent.
Citing figures from the Ministry of Public Security, a report said 224 suspects have been detained since July 16, when the crackdown began.
There is growing alarm at the inexorable rise of China, both of its military prowess and its aggressive bullying of other countries plus its subjugation of whole portions of its own population.
Important for Chinese President Xi Jinping will be Zhao's discussions on the issues of Tibet and the Dalai Lama and his assessment of the likely results of India's coming national elections, notes former senior RA&W officer and China expert Jayadeva Ranade.
'Xi's assumption of absolute power is neither complete, nor irreversible.' 'Nor is it safe, for Xi, for his party, or for his country more generally.' 'And the government knows this,' says Mihir S Sharma.
A massive fire engulfed a private nursing home for senior citizens in central China, killing at least 38 residents who were charred beyond recognition and prompting authorities to order nationwide safety checks of public buildings.
Witnesses said two cross-country vehicles driving from north to south ploughed into people in the market at 7:50 am local time and explosives were thrown out of the cars, one of which exploded, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Both sides to enhance cooperation in combating international terrorism.
In a major breakthrough in China's worst terrorist attack at the Kunming railway station, police on Monday captured three militants from the restive Xinjiang province who fled the scene of slashing rampage that killed 33 people and injured 143 others.
Like China, India needs to encourage 'hacker clubs' in view of the challenges of virtual terrorism, says Lieutenant General Prakash Katoch (retd)
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