Taiwan’s Supreme Court rules that Wang Jinping, expelled from the ruling KMT party last year after accusations of influence peddling, is still a member of the party, CNA News reports.

Diplomacy

Two selfies of President Xi Jinping with an Indonesian official goes viral on China's social media. The photos were originally posted Fadli Zon, deputy chairman of Great Indonesian Movement Party, on his twitter on April 22nd, when Xi was attending the Asian-African Summit in Indonesia. 

China’s reclamation projects in the disputed South China Sea are not mentioned in a draft statement for next week’s Asean summit in Malaysia, Kyodo News reports.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei protests the visit by three Japanese ministers to the war-linked Yasukuni Shrine just a day after the leaders of the two countries met at a conference in Indonesia, Xinhua reports.

China is building its first locally designed aircraft carrier in the Dalian shipyard, and expects to put it into service in 2023, Kanwa Asian Defense, a Toronto-based monthly defence review said in its latest report. 

Economy

Korea Tourism Organisation projects that about 100,000 mainland Chinese will visit the country this year during China’s golden week holiday (in May), a 20.6% increase from last year, CNA News reports.

China will not expand its free-trade zones to other regions in a short term, Yin Zhongqing, deputy head of the finance and economics committee of the National People’s Congress, tells 21st Century Business Herald in an interview. 

Society

Chinese feminist Li Tingting vows to become the country’s first openly gay lawyer after her release from detention last week. Li was detained together with another four activists last month for trying to raise awareness about sexual harassment on International Women’s Day.

Three Chinese-owned shops looted amid anti-government protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Xinhua reports.

Mobile addiction is responsible marriage crises in China’s post-80s generation because it lessens communication between couples and increases opportunities for extramarital affairs, Chongqing Morning Post reports.