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Court: Pay widow of killed john

Metro | Courts
2009-11-10

AN insurance company has been ordered to pay compensation of 400,000 yuan (US$58,582) to a widow whose husband was killed in a prostitution dispute, a court said yesterday. The Pudong New Area People's Court ruled...

Compensation ruling over toxic meat

Metro | Courts
2009-6-29

A SHANGHAI court has upheld a ruling demanding that a pork wholesaler and the market where he had his stall pay more than 490,000 yuan (US$71,695) for selling tainted pork that made hundreds of people sick. The...

Online fraudsters caught in police net

Metro | Courts
2009-3-31

TWO people who embezzled nearly 50,000 yuan (US$7,313) from an Internet cafe with the help of a software program were sentenced yesterday. Gui Cunhui, 21, an Anhui Province native and a cashier of the cafe, was...

Couple sue friends in apartment dispute

Metro | Courts
2009-3-17

A GERMAN and his Chinese wife yesterday accused their friends, a Chinese couple, of trying to claim ownership of their apartment. Klaus Neumann, 46, and his wife, Wang Xiaoqun, asked Pudong New Area People's...

Underwear fight ends in court

Metro | Courts
2009-3-5

THE Pudong New Area People's Court yesterday sentenced a woman surnamed Yu to a year in prison with probation of one year for insulting another woman by taking off her underwear in public. Last April, Yu discovered...

Blow from shoe killed abusive husband

Metro | Courts
2009-2-17

A WOMAN whose husband died after she hit him on the head with a shoe was jailed for 10 years yesterday. The Pudong New Area People's Court found Zhao, from Jiangsu Province, guilty of manslaughter. Zhao,...

Firm appeals copyright case

Metro | Courts
2009-2-6

A LOCAL court heard an appeal yesterday brought by a Chinese firm that was found guilty of copyright infringement last year. In November, the Pudong New Area People's Court found that FirstTrust China Ltd had...

Grieving father in life insurance battle

Metro | Courts
2009-2-5

A MAN who lost his son four days after he had insured his life has taken the insurance company to court claiming it tricked him into signing an agreement to collect just 45,000 yuan (US$6,584) instead of the 200,000...

Pudong court tackles finance

Metro | Courts
2008-11-14

THE first financial court of its kind was set up under the Pudong New Area People's Court yesterday. The new court will handle all finance-related cases accepted by the Pudong court. The special court will appoint...

Bogus stocks tipster jailed

Metro | Courts
2008-11-5

THE Pudong New Area People's Court has sentenced an unlicensed securities consultant to six years in prison for taking 9.2 million yuan (US$1.3 million) in illegal fees from his clients, authorities said yesterday. ...