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Thieves grab hold of cyclists' handbags

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-18

POLICE to bicyclists: Hold onto your handbags. Police have cracked down on a gang that specialized in grabbing property from cyclists on cold winter days. Three suspects - with motorcycles, stolen cell phones...

Midwife faces charge in death of mom, child

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-10-15

A MIGRANT midwife who allegedly caused the death of a mother and her newborn child has been arrested on a charge of illegal medical practice, prosecutors in Shanghai's Jiading District said yesterday. If convicted,...

Murder victim's kin wins damages

Metro | Courts
2009-9-8

AN underground car park owner and its property manager were yesterday ordered to pay 201,724 yuan (US$29,539) in compensation for the death of a woman who was stabbed there by a supermarket cleaner. Jiading District...

Illegal city kindergarten shut down

Metro | Education
2009-9-3

CITY education authorities are busy relocating nearly 100 mostly migrant children after their unlicensed kindergarten in Jiading District was shut down on the first day of the new semester. A notice was put on the...

Families of dead workers accept compensation

Metro | Work safety
2009-8-28

THE families of the four workers killed last week when two cranes crashed in Jiading District have received total compensation of 2.18 million yuan (US$31,9059), local quality authorities said yesterday. Authorities...

Bogus-diploma gangs busted

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-8-27

JIADING District police have nabbed gangs forging certificates and invoices. Seven suspects had been caught with 130,000 counterfeit certificates, stamps, and invoices seized, police said. Police found cell phone...

Task force begins probe into crash of 2 cranes

Metro
2009-8-21

A TASK force has been set up to investigate the cause of a crash involving two cranes on Wednesday that killed four workers and injured three others, city government announced yesterday. The investigation task...

4 workers die at local rail site in crane slam

Metro | Work safety
2009-8-20

FOUR workers were crushed to death and two others were injured yesterday evening after a 10-ton crane crashed into another crane during a heavy rainstorm at a construction site for the Shanghai-Beijing express rail...

Ex-husband's kidnap scheme ends in prison

Metro | Courts
2009-7-28

A MAN who kidnapped his ex-wife's lover to demand a 1 million yuan (US$146,413) ransom and also extorted 300,000 yuan from his victim has been jailed 20 years, a district court said yesterday. His four accomplices...

Baby traffickers apprehended

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-7-14

JIADING District police have caught two people trafficking babies and rescued two infants, officers said yesterday. One mother, from Anhui Province, arrived in Shanghai yesterday to reclaim her one-month-old son,...