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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...

New buses hit the road

Metro | Traffic
2009-11-9

SHANGHAI is opening six new community bus routes in three outlying districts this week in an effort to blunt the illegal operation of black cabs. More community buses will follow this first batch of openings to...

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...

Crash hearing

Metro | Courts
2009-10-31

A MINHANG court yesterday began hearing the case over a fatal road car crash on June 2, which killed five people - four South Koreans and a cabbie. The court didn't announce a verdict and will hold another session.

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...