May, 25, 2012 | This newsletter is sent at 4am Beijing Standard Time (GMT+8).
Today's Highlights
Nigeria frees 80 Chinese held in raids on markets
NIGERIA has released 80 of nearly 100 Chinese nationals it had arrested on suspicion of being in the country illegally, the Chinese Consulate-General in the port city of Lagos said yesterday.
Most of those held...
482 held in telecom scam bust
A TOTAL of 482 people suspected of being involved in a major transnational telecom scam were seized by law enforcement officials from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan on Wednesday with the help of police in six countries.
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Confucius Institutes hit with visa ban in US
CHINESE academics with a J-1 visa and teaching at Confucius Institutes in the United States will have to leave the country by June 30 as the State Department has said their visas won't be extended.
China's Foreign...
Metro
Rain, gray to go away soon, allow sunshine
SHANGHAI is expected to endure another wet day or two but the weekend should be mostly dry, forecasters said yesterday.
Showers should diminish today and tomorrow, and the sky is forecast to turn overcast to cloudy...
Angry neighbors confront woman they accuse of killing cats for years
A local woman who was accused of abusing and slaying adopted cats for 10 years packed up and left her rented apartment yesterday after angry cat owners surrounded it.
The 38-year-old woman, Zhou Ying, had to seek...
Standard translations for TCM
TRADITIONAL Chinese Medicine will have standard translations for each term to improve the spread of its theory and benefit more people around the world.
A local university researcher is leading the translation...
World
Man in custody over New York boy missing since 1979
A PERSON in custody has implicated himself in one of New York City's highest profile crimes in history, one that helped launch a missing children's movement across the United States.
A law enforcement official...
Solar jet on first transcontinental flight
AN experimental solar-powered airplane took off from Switzerland on its first transcontinental flight yesterday, aiming to reach North Africa next week.
Pilot Andre Borschberg planned to take the jumbo jet-size...
National
482 held in telecom scam bust
A TOTAL of 482 people suspected of being involved in a major transnational telecom scam were seized by law enforcement officials from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan on Wednesday with the help of police in six countries.
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Illegal Vietnamese workers found in Anhui
THIRTY-NINE Vietnamese illegally living and working in Anhui Province have been transferred to border defense authorities, local authorities said yesterday.
This month, police found the illegal migrants working...
Soy sauce producer in cancer scare probe
A condiment producer in a south China city is being investigated over claims it used illegal industrial salt, which can cause cancer, in its soy sauce to cut costs.
The Weiji Food Seasonings Co Ltd in Foshan, Guangdong...
Business
Earnings of American banks climb
US bank earnings rose in the first three months of this year to the highest level in nearly five years. The number of troubled banks fell for the fourth straight quarter.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp yesterday...
Flash PMI shows drop in production bustle
PRIVATE companies in China may see a deterioration in their manufacturing activities again in May as a preliminary reading for the HSBC Purchasing Managers' Index suggested a seventh straight month of contraction.
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Sports
Anelka says in the dark over plans for new coach
SHANGHAI Shenhua's player-coach Nicolas Anelka played down his threats of retirement yesterday, saying he would continue as a player even if the club signs a new coach.
The Frenchman had told a local evening newspaper...
Angry McIlroy loses his cool in PGA opener
A FRUSTRATED Rory McIlroy tossed his club to the ground in a fit of anger during his bogey-filled opening round at the PGA Championship in Wentworth, England, yesterday.
Making his first appearance in Europe in...
China races to final of Uber Cup
CHINA did not drop a game on its way to beating Thailand 3-0 for a place in the Uber Cup final where it will meet defending champion South Korea, which also beat Japan by the same scoreline yesterday.
South Korea's...
Feature
Bird watcher who spread his wings to follow a dream
SIX years ago, Zhang Lin stunned his family when he announced that he was quitting a good, secure job with - ironically - a leading airline and heading into the woods to watch birds.
Sticking with his "weird" hobby...
A hidden gem offering eclectic attractions
SHAOXING Road is a small, quiet street which connects the much busier Shaanxi Road S. with Ruijin Road No.2. The beautiful trees which line the pavement, plus a small, traditional Chinese park, provide a relaxing respite...
Delightful result of breaking up
NORAH Jones has a piano in her kitchen.
You need look no further than this wonderfully off-kilter fact for a metaphor to describe the 33-year-old singer's evolution as she releases arguably the most interesting...
Opinion
Global banks pulling back from overseas business
GLOBAL policymakers regularly congratulate themselves on having avoided the errors of the 1930s during the financial crisis that began in 2008.
Led by US Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, an economic...
Steel sector heads for slower growth
EDITOR'S note: This week Matt Jamieson spoke with Su Aik Lim, Fitch's Asia Pacific steel sector analyst based in Hong Kong, about China's steel industry and specifically the recent anomaly of record production levels...
Please leave shoeshining to shoeshiners
WHEN civil servants "volunteer" to be shoeshiners in the streets for one day, they may be doing less good than they imagine.
On May 15, civil servants from 25 government departments in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province,...
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