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Head-on truck-van crash kills 7, injures 7

Metro | Traffic
2009-11-10

SEVEN people were killed and seven injured in Shanghai's Fengxian District yesterday afternoon when a truck skidded across a rain-slicked highway into oncoming traffic. The resulting five-car pile-up caused a...

Music funeral

Metro
2009-11-9

A "music funeral" was held in the city over the weekend. The Binhaiguyuan Cemetery in Fengxian District said it hoped to attract families through special-event funerals that are different from traditional ones. Seventeen...

12 suspects caught over telephone swindling scams

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-8-28

CITY police have caught 12 gang members who allegedly swindled more that 4.2 million yuan (US$614,700) from people in telephone scams. The gang leader is from Taiwan and four members are foreigners, Fengxian District...

Family seeks nail death redress

Metro | Courts
2009-7-30

THE family of a man who died after being hit in the eye with a nail in an auto repair shop demanded 611,000 yuan (US$89,427) compensation from the shop's owner in a court hearing yesterday. On September 20 last...

Man forced to pay back leukemia wife's money

Metro | Courts
2009-7-6

A MAN was ordered by a court to return more than 80,000 yuan (US$11,709) in donations to his wife, who has leukemia, after he asked to end their marriage because of her disease. At the weekend the Fengxian District...

Fake vaccine led to deaths of two women

Metro | Courts
2008-12-25

TWO people responsible for the deaths of a mother and a grandmother from rabies have been jailed, the Fengxian District People's Court said yesterday. An Xiuya, an Anhui Province native, was sentenced to 11 years...

Factory officials held after deaths

Metro | Crime and public security
2008-12-24

OFFICIALS in charge of construction at a factory in Fengxian District which collapsed, killing three workers, have been detained. Shanghai Dehua Metal Netbelt Co Ltd didn't have legal permission for the project,...

Concrete pours on workers, killing three

Metro | Work safety
2008-12-23

THE death toll of a scaffolding collapse in the city's suburban Fengxian District had risen to three by yesterday. The accident happened in on Sunday morning. A worker died on the spot while nine colleagues...

One dead, two critical in factory collapse

National
2008-12-22

ONE worker was killed and two of the nine injured were still in a critical condition last night after a six-story factory under construction in Shanghai's Fengxian District collapsed yesterday morning. The accident...

Suspected swindlers caught after US$1.4m fraud

Metro | Crime and public security
2008-12-12

THREE members of a suspected fraud ring were arrested for allegedly cheating a victim out of 9.9 million yuan (US$1.4 million), Fengxian District police said yesterday. Investigators recovered 8.17 million yuan....