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Terms met, at last, on flattened flats

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-17

NO lawsuit, at last. Owners of 21 flats in a toppled building in a Minhang District complex decided on a resolution to a four-month-long exhausting and sometimes angry negotiation on the compensations. Ten...

'New' Porsche was fraud: court

Metro | Courts
2009-11-10

SHANGHAI Yuhong Auto Sale Co Ltd has been ordered to return a 1.04 million yuan (US$152,339) car payment to a consumer surnamed Cai and compensate him another 1.35 million yuan for sale fraud. Minhang District...

Lotus apartment deals nearly completed

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-11-4

THE odd and sometimes-angry saga at Lotus Riverside, an apartment complex in Shanghai's Minhang District where a 13-story building keeled over in June, appears to be nearing a conclusion. A large majority of the...

Minhang to increase free bikeservice

Metro | Traffic
2009-10-30

MINHANG District urban planners said yesterday that they will increase the supply of free-rental bicycles, an increasingly popular and green means of making short trips between residential areas and transport hubs....

Couple's virtual-world romance ends in a real-life murder case

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-10-29

A SALESMAN who created an alter ego on a social networking Website killed his virtual "wife" after he found out she was only after his money and his real-life girlfriend jilted him, prosecutors in Shanghai's Minhang...

Minhang admits to impropriety

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-10-27

MINHANG District government said yesterday it will return the 10,000 yuan (US$1,464) fine it collected from a white-collar worker charged with operating an illegal taxi. The defendant, Zhang Hui, claimed authorities...

Man charged in throat-cutting

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-10-16

A MAN who allegedly cut the throat of his former stepson over a property dispute with his ex-wife was arrested yesterday and charged with murder. Zhong Changfu, 52, told Minhang District prosecutors that he killed...

Wife charged with shopping mall murder

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-10-13

A WOMAN who allegedly stabbed her husband's mistress to death in a crowded shopping center was arrested yesterday. Yuan Xuelan, who surrendered herself to the police four hours after the killing, has been charged...

Architects lay safety foundations

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-10-12

AN architectural firm yesterday unveiled a plan to strengthen the foundation of a building next to an unfinished 13-story apartment house that toppled more than three months ago in Shanghai's Minhang District. However,...

Crash Victim Succumbs

Metro | Traffic
2009-9-24

A woman, 21, died in a city hospital on Tuesday after being in a coma since she was knocked from her electric bicycle by a drunk driver last Saturday. The relatives of the victim, Xu Jing, said they would file...