An income distribution reform plan is due to be unveiled this month after eight years of preparation. Chang Xiuze, a researcher with a think tank under the powerful state planning agency, said that the failure of residents' income growth in matching the country's wealth growth had became a "strategic problem". He also said that the reform should address problems in industries dominated by state-owned enterprises. Xinhua
Taiwan said yesterday that it would ask US technology giant Apple to blur satellite images of its sensitive military installations which are freely available to iPhone 5 users. The defence ministry reacted after Taiwan's Liberty Times newspaper printed a satellite picture, downloaded with an iPhone 5, showing a top-secret long-range radar base in the northern county of Hsinchu. AFP