法广, Apr 30, 2016

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(1) 三判死缓  '情人节凶手' 入狱18年后获无罪释放.
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20160430-三判死缓-“情人节凶手”入狱18年后获无罪释放
(法新社周六4月30号发自北京的报道指出，中国吉林省高级人民法院在其官方微博上宣布，该法庭周五宣判今年52岁，因被控杀人入狱18年的刘吉强无罪后，将其释放。根据案情介绍，刘吉强1998年被捕，他被控当年2月14号杀害了当时的女友")

, which is basically translated, except quotation BELOW,  from

China's 'Valentine's Day' Killer Acquitted of 1998 Murder. AFP, Apr 30, 2016
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires ... ed-1998-murder.html
("Liu Jiqiang, 52, was found guilty of strangling and stabbing his lover on February 14, 1998, earning him the notorious nickname 'Valentine's Day killer' in the Chinese press")

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(2) 甄树基, 大陆客访台骤降香港人游台意却浓.
http://cn.rfi.fr/中国/20160430-大陆客访台骤降香港人游台意却浓
("根据台湾观光局香港办事处主任巫宗霖表示，台湾已经成为香港人旅游热点，今年头3个月旅台人数，已经超过去年同期30%，而单在3月份，更比去年同期多出40%")

, which is based, in part (the part about Hongkongers flocking to Taiwan) on

Nikki Sun, Prudent Hongkongers flock to Taiwan, with Arrivals up 30 Per Cent in First Quarter; In contrast, the city's tourism industry is bracing itself for another disappointing long holiday weekend, South China Morning Post, Apr 29, 2016.
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko ... -cent-first-quarter
("Tony Wu, a director at the Taiwan Tourism Bureau")

My comment: Hong Kong also has a reduced inflow of China's tourists for the May 1 long holiday. On the other hand,  (in terms of China's tourists) Hong Kong and Taiwan diverge because the former has experienced "the year-long slump in the market."  SCMP.  

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(3) 阿曼亭, 法国专家谈中共高层最新派别斗争.
http://cn.rfi.fr/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B ... B%E6%96%97%E4%BA%89
("本周一中纪委网站曾发表被认为是共青团自我检讨的文章--《共青团中央书记处关于巡视整改情况的通报》。这篇文章承认共青团领导人在年轻人问题上有失误。法国国际关系战略研究院的研究员、中国问题专家Jean-Vincent BRISSET认为，这是中共高层派别斗争的新迹象")

My comment:
(a) Yesterday I had a posting titled 外媒指出习近平和李克强之间可能存在权斗, a Radio Free Asia report (in Mandarin) that was based on the English-language
Xi Move on Faction Suggests China Elite Struggle: Experts. AFP, Apr 29, 2016

, where a different analyst ("Jean-Pierre Cabestan of Hong Kong Baptist University") reached the same conclusion from divining the same article (about 共青团) published on the same website.
(b) Jean-Vincent Brisset. Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS; English: The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs), undated (under the heading" Experts").
www.iris-france.org/experts/jean-vincent-brisset/

At the bottom of this Web page is an introduction of the organization (because the website lacks "About Us"): "IRIS, a public-interest association created in 1991, is a French think tank on geopolitical and strategic issues. It is the only international think tank to have been set up as a totally private initiative in an independent approach."   To the right of this statement is the "Contact" tag which indicates the think tank is based in Paris.

Thus IRIS is not a government-supported organization.
(c) 共青团中央书记处关于巡视整改情况的通报. 中央纪委监察部网站, Apr 25, 2016 (under the heading 要闻).
www.ccdi.gov.cn/yw/201604/t20160424_78023.html