Environmental suit Environmental NGOs are suing three chemical plants in a high-profile case of alleged soil contamination* that may have affected students at a school in eastern China. Zhang Jianwen, spokesman for Changzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Jiangsu Province, confirmed on Sunday that a public interest lawsuit has been filed with the court. The suit has been brought by the groups Friends of Nature, China Biodiversity Conservation and the Green Development Foundation. The court accepted it after receiving the indictment* and related material. Higher airfares Negative reviews during the trial operation of Shanghai Disney Resort haven’t cooled down tourists’ passion for it, as more flights to Shanghai are being scheduled by major airlines to handle an expected surge in tourist numbers, according to the Beijing News. The newspaper estimates that the opening of Shanghai Disneyland will see an increase of about 3 million air travelers to Shanghai in 2016. Such a jump also means that airfares* will go up when Disneyland officially opens. Tsai’s stance THE Chinese mainland’s Taiwan affairs authority on Friday described remarks by Taiwan’s new leader Tsai Ing-wen on relations across the Taiwan Straits as “an incomplete test answer.” In her inauguration* address, Tsai “was ambiguous* about the fundamental issue, the nature of cross-Straits relations, an issue that is of utmost* concern to people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits,” the head of the Taiwan Work Office of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said. Attack against doctor China’s top health authority and the Ministry of Public Security will directly supervise the investigation into the killing of a doctor in Central China’s Hunan Province on Wednesday. Wang Jun, a doctor with Shaodong County People’s Hospital, was beaten by members of a patient’s family and died Wednesday. Two suspects have been apprehended* and another surrendered himself to police. (SD-Agencies) | 