Quick-thinking police rescue kidnapped woman

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2009-9-7

AFTER being stabbed, gagged, tied up and held hostage for 27 hours, a 35-year-old wife and mother was reunited with her family, thanks to police who foiled the kidnap attempt. The alarm was raised after Ma failed...

'Magic' man returns from cycling trip to Tibet

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2009-7-27

ZHU Junxian just can't stop cycling. The 75-year-old man has traveled more than 105,000 kilometers across the country on his bike. And he just returned on July 17 from his latest epic journey, a trip to the Tibet...

Longer-term residency permits makes life easier

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2009-7-14

WHEN Frenchman Jean-Philippe Soulard arrived in Shanghai in April, he didn't expect his one-year residence permit to be extended to three years so quickly. Today, two weeks after Shanghai started its pilot program...

Bus rescuer insists he is not special

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2009-7-9

THE quick-thinking hero who stepped on the brake of an out of control Bridge Route No.3 bus and saved dozens of passengers from injury or worse on Sunday is a 35-year-old primary school teacher who does not have a...

Police cunning nabs gang of ice dealers

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2009-6-25

RESIDENTS in Songjiang District's Yage Garden heard what they thought were firecrackers on the afternoon of May 8. They didn't realize a drugs bust was going down. On the night of May 7, Pudong New Area police...