A delegation from China visited Indonesia from November 21 to 23 to conduct a media tour themed "Song of Our Homeland: China-ASEAN International Media .
A former champion boxer is wanted by police in eastern China for suspicion of taking part in an illegal lending scheme and causing “intentional injury”. The case has highlighted public misgivings about the fate of high-level athletes in China after they retire. Li Teng, who is now 33 years old, is accused of being part of a 19-person gang led.
April 19, 2021
South China Morning Post
The Chinese government on Tuesday (April 13) issued a ban on “ugly architecture ”, nearly seven years after President Xi Jinping famously criticised the “weird” buildings popping up across China in recent decades.
As China has experienced rapid urbanisation over the past 40 years, numerous projects turned out to be eyesores – from the “giant trousers” structure of the China Central Television headquarters in Beijing to the half-Temple of Heaven, half-US Capitol building in nearby Hebei province.
The National Development and Reform Commission, China’s top economic planner, issued a directive earlier this week that said “the construction of ugly architecture should be strictly banned”.