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Three university student volunteers dress up with bloody wedding gowns in downtown Beijing to campaign for domestic violence victims as passersby look on. Photo: Simon Song
Opinion
China In 3 Minutes
by SCMP online
China In 3 Minutes
by SCMP online

July 30: Domestic violence law approved; hackers target United airline

Politics and policy

A draft of China's first law against domestic violence has been approved by the State Council, China's cabinet, and submitted to the top legislature for deliberation. (Xinhua)
 

Premier Li Keqiang called for improvements to urban underground infrastructure and upgraded quality standards for pipe networks to prevent disasters like flooding. (People's Daily)  
 

Zhang Lijun, former deputy environmental protection minister, is being probed for "serious violations of discipline and law", a euphemism for corruption. (Central Commission for Discipline Inspection)
 

Diplomacy

Chinese President Xi Jinping and visiting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged to work together to fight terrorism. Erdogan reiterated that the Turkish government opposes all attempts on Turkish territory to harm China's sovereignty in the wake of recent anti-China protests in Istanbul. (Xinhua)
 

Economy and business

The United States became the biggest source for Chinese online purchases in 2014, in particular for educational, healthcare and food products. Chinese consumers made 18 times more purchases from the US than people from other countries last year, according to a study jointly produced by Visa. (China Daily)
 

Technology

A group of China-backed hackers have been linked to data breaches at airline United Continental in which information on passengers and destinations were stolen. (Bloomberg)
 

Alibaba Group will invest US$1 billion in its Aliyun cloud computing arm to challenge Amazon's lucrative Web Services division, opening a global front in the battle between the two e-commerce giants. (Reuters)
 

Society

There have been 12 known cases this year of parents accidentally leaving their children in their vehicles, resulting in at least five children dead. This has triggered a debate whether there should be laws to pursue parents' responsibilities for negligence. (The Beijing News)    

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