Oriental Morning Post reports that authorities in Shanghai are stepping up inspections after discovering cheap brands of 21 different school uniforms containing toxic dye.

BBC: China media: Pollution strikes again

Shanghai's Oriental Morning Post says the suspects had planned to "make a big deal" at a crowded public place in Kashgar, Xinjiang, this summer.

BBC: China media: Xinjiang arrests

Zhuang Guotai, director of nature and ecology conservation at the Ministry of Environmental Protection, says untreated sewage, rubbish pesticides and excessive fertiliser have destroyed vast tracts of farmland and threaten food sustainability, Oriental Morning Post reveals.

BBC: China media: Debate on North Korea

North Korea expert at the Communist Party's Central Party School, Zhang Liangui, tells Oriental Morning Post that North Korea has "completely shut the door to negotiations" and that the crisis will continue to reach "unmanageable levels".

BBC: China media: Debate on North Korea

However, in Oriental Morning Post, Zhang Jianxin, international relations professor at Shanghai's Fudan University, predicts the demise of the "radical anti-American" left in Latin America and as moderates representing the middle class come to the fore.

BBC: China media: Death of Chavez

Oriental Daily News and South China Morning Post say central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan may avoid mandatory retirement and remain in office for another year or two to steer China through the global financial crisis.

BBC: China media: Hacking dismissed