Asked at a news conference whether this included gay couples, Guo Linmao, a member of the legislative affairs commission of parliament’s standing committee, said the law was a response to specific problems discovered.
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Trump on Clinton, Bush: ‘We view this as war’
Later in his speech, Trump remarked that “the last thing [Clinton] wants in her whole life” is to face him in a general election. Clinton’s public comments came as President Obama was in a re-election campaign making claims al-Qaida was “on the run”.
The legislation (full text here) which requires telecom operators and internet service providers to render “technical support and assistance, including decryption”, was passed with a unanimous vote at the bi-monthly session of the National People’s Congress. The law will go into effect on January 1.
Japan agrees to ‘comfort women’ talks: minister
In the face of criticism, President Park Geun Hye has launched an all-out campaign to win public support for the deal. China took a different tack, with state media slamming Japan’s long-awaited mea culpa as insincere and insufficient.
The National People’s Congress said its standing committee adopted the law with a unanimous vote.
Sydney’s biggest show kicks off global party despite terror fears
Samoa was the first nation to see in 2016, with New Zealand the first nation with a sizeable population to celebrate the New Year. New York: Around 1 million people were expected to converge on New York City’s Times Square for the annual celebration.
China’s government has said companies need not fear the law, saying intellectual property rights would be respected and that many Western countries had similar laws.
Chinese officials said Sunday that the requirements for the tech firms are necessary because terrorists are increasingly turning to cyberspace. The new intelligence center, in addition to coordinating between Chinese government bodies, will also coordinate “trans-regional efforts on counter-terrorism intelligence and information”, according to Xinhua. The Xinjiang autonomous region in China’s far west has had a long history of discord between the authorities and the indigenous ethnic Uyghur population.
The new counter-terrorism law was approved this past Sunday, and while it eliminated the “backdoors” clause, it still gives the Chinese government the authority to force companies to help its agencies access encrypted messages. He also said the law would allow for “collaboration with the worldwide community”.
Rights groups, though, doubt the existence of a cohesive militant group in Xinjiang and say the unrest mostly stems from anger among the region’s Muslim Uighur people over restrictions on their religion and culture.
Earlier this year in an interview with Reuters, President Obama himself raised his concerns over the planned regulations, urging Beijing to change the policy if it wanted to continue doing business with the US. That includes one that companies providing software to Chinese banks turn over their source code to the government.
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“An Weixing, an official with the public security ministry, told journalists Sunday that terror attacks were a rising issue in China”. The two-child rule will take effect Friday.
