PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 02 June, 2015, 10:23am
UPDATED : Tuesday, 02 June, 2015, 10:26am
June 2: Internet police take to social media; woman jailed for killing ‘noisy’ toddler son
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A man visits Sina's Weibo microblogging site in Shanghai. Photo: Reuters
Politics and policy
Western governments and foreign non-profit groups are pressuring China to revise a proposed law that requires foreign non-profit organisations to find an official sponsor, typically a government-backed agency, and gives broad latitude to the police to regulate activities and funding. (Reuters)
Internet police no longer behind-the-scenes: Internet police in 50 provinces in China made their public debut by opening social media accounts on Monday. Instead of directly deleting posts that they deem to have violated laws, as in the past, they will now send warnings to internet users to ask them delete the information. (Xinhua)
Diplomacy
The People's Liberation Army on Monday began its annual trans-regional exercise at Zhurihe training base in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in north China. (Xinhua)
Economy
China and South Korea have officially signed a bilateral free trade agreement. (Global Times)
Chinese train makers CSR Corp Ltd and China CNR completed a merger to form the world's biggest rail conglomerate. The new name will be CRRC. (Reuters)
Yum Brands Inc’s KFC unit in China said on Monday it has sued three companies it claims are using a popular messaging service to spread false rumours about the fried-chicken chain, including allegations that its chickens have six wings and eight legs. (Reuters)
Society
A passenger ferry carrying 458 people capsized on the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei province during a storm on Monday evening. So far eight people including the ship's captain have been rescued. (Xinhua)
On the first day of Beijing’s public smoking ban, 146 places were ordered to rectify practices and one smoker was fined 50 yuan as authorities dispatched over a thousand officials on the street to supervise the ban. (Beijing Times)
A 26-year-old Beijing woman was sentenced to 11 years in prison after she was found guilty of deliberately strangling her own toddler son to death because "he was making too much noise". (Xinhua)
Sixteen people have died and three are missing in heavy rainfall in southern China last week. (Xinhua)
