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CHINA DAILY
Advice from Italy on tackling air pollution
A senior environmental official from Italy is suggesting levelling fines against local governments for inaction is an effective way to tackle air pollution.
Corrado Clini is visiting Beijing to offer advice to the Chinese government based on his pollution-control experience in the European Union.
Liaoning became the first province in China to fine local governments for causing air pollution late last year.
BEIJING NEWS
No taxi apps during rush hours
Shanghai authorities are ordering taxi drivers to stop using the taxi apps during rush hours.
The move is aimed at easing the difficulty of street hailing taxis.
The rush hours in Shanghai are from 7:30 to 9:30am and 4:30 to 6:30pm.
GLOBAL TIMES
Ex-HK newspaper editor stabbed
A former chief editor of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao is in critical condition after being stabbed yesterday morning.
The 49-year-old Kevin Lau was ambushed in Lei King Wan in Hong Kong.
He was appointed Ming Pao's chief editor in 2012.
He left the post in January this year.
It's unclear what the motivation behind the attack is.
SHANGHAI DAILY
All MA-60 jets grounded
A Chinese aircraft maker in Xi'an has grounded all of its MA-60 jets across China after the landing gear of the jet malfunctioned twice this month.
The latest malfunction saw a flight forced to circle over an airport in Shenyang for over 2-hours this week while the crew tried to deal with the landing gear malfucntion.
The plane eventually landed safely.
SOUTH CHINA METROPOLITAN DAILY
Regional pension barriers to be eliminated
The State Council is working to unify the regional differences in this country's pension system.
There used to be no transfer mechanism between pensions for urban and rural residents.
However, authorities are now working to change this so that if a rural resident changes his Hukou, he or she should be eligable for the urban pension, which is higher than the rural one.
BEIJING MORNING POST
Nanjing hopspital violence
A couple in Nanjing have been suspended from their government jobs and are under criminal investigation following a brutal attack on a nurse and a doctor in a local hospital earlier this week.
The husband is a local procuratorate official.
The wife is an official at the local broadcasting coporation.
The couple was reportedly unhappy that the nurse put a male patient in the ward where their daughter was hospitalized.
BEIJING TIMES
Free hospital WIFI
Beijing's medical authority has signed a deal with China Telecom to provide free wifi in all public hospitals here in Beijing.
However, community hospitals are being excluded from the new wifi deal
