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Land chief charged for taking17m yuan

National
2009-10-13

PROSECUTORS in eastern China's Anhui Province have charged a former land and resources bureau chief with taking 17 million yuan (US$2.49 million) in bribes. Wang Haifeng, who had been the head of Ma'anshan Land...

Hostage drama mystery deepens

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-10-12

A YOUNG woman rescued from her knife-wielding boyfriend last week may face charges of being an accessory to the kidnapping, Pudong New Area police said yesterday. Police rescued the 19-year-old woman unharmed after...

Cop's gun recovered; suspects still at large

National
2009-7-31

POLICE in Anhui Province have recovered an officer's stolen gun, but are still searching for three suspects in the case that hospitalized one officer. Officers Zhang Long and Mao Jigen approached three men they...

Thieves who stole cop's pistol hunted

National
2009-7-30

ARMED police troops and SWAT officers were hunting three men who allegedly stole a moped in eastern China's Anhui Province after two of them stole a patrol officer's loaded pistol during the chase on Tuesday afternoon. ...

Beaten vendor in intensive care

Metro | Health
2009-7-24

PENG Lin, an Anhui Province native who came to Shanghai three months ago, is in the intensive care unit of Shanghai's Huashan Hospital after allegedly being severely beaten by the city's urban management staff this...

Son abandoned

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-7-23

AN Anhui Province father surnamed Wu will face a criminal charge for abandoning his five-year-old son on a train departing Anhui to Shanghai, Shanghai railway police said yesterday. Police recovered the child from...

Illegal salt arrest

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-7-17

AN Anhui Province farmer was arrested yesterday on charges he illegally produced and sold more than 20 tons of salt. Minhang District prosecutors charged Liu Yesheng with operating an illegal business. Liu allegedly...

Court's judgment becomes a joke

National
2009-7-15

A RULING by a court in eastern China, widely circulated online, has not only become something of a running joke among Netizens but has also raised worries over the competency of grassroots judicial staff. Firstly,...

Hit-run sentence

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-7-13

ANHUI Province native Mo Chenghao was sentenced to 10 months in prison for a hit-and-run accident, the Songjiang District People's Court has ruled. Mo was not responsible for the accident on the A8 Expressway in...

50 dead as storm havoc spreads

National
2009-6-9

One person was killed in north China's Shanxi Province on Sunday, bringing the death toll of rains and storms since last Wednesday to 50, officials said yesterday....