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High-rise litterbugs difficult to nab as complaints mount

Metro
2009-10-22

CITY property-management companies are in a dilemma over how to stop people living in high-rise buildings from throwing litter out of balconies and windows. Apartment owners in lower levels are increasing pressure...

Five caught over fake cigarettes

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-9-22

PUTUO District police captured five people for allegedly producing and selling more than 2,264 kilograms of fake cigarettes. After a year-long investigation, officers nabbed the suspects when they were transporting...

Man held over lake arms case

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-8-5

A MAN, 29, has been detained for allegedly killing and dismembering a woman in Shanghai's Putuo District. Police said yesterday the unemployed man, surnamed Wang, from Henan Province, dumped the victim's arms...

Dismembered arms leave cops baffled

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-8-3

A FORENSIC examination will take at least three days for Putuo District police to confirm the identity of a victim whose dismembered arms were recovered from a man-made lake. Police are still trying to figure out...

Case of the bride and missing groom hard to believe but true

Metro | Courts
2009-7-31

A DIVORCE case unfolding in a Shanghai court has all the ingredients for a successful movie - romance, deceit, melodrama and tragedy. A groom disappeared the day before his wedding, leaving his blushing bride to...

Wife killer surrenders himself to police

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-7-31

A 60-year-old man handed himself to police soon after stabbing his 55-year-old wife to death at home on Wednesday, Putuo District police said yesterday. The man surnamed Chen killed his wife surnamed Xu in a dispute...

Cabbie detective

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-7-22

PUTUO District police has sent a cash gratitude prize to Dazhong Taxi driver Dong Jian, who recently helped police catch a 20-year-old Hebei Province native believed to have committed a dozen burglaries since April...

Leader of moped theft gang sent to jail

Metro | Crime and public security
2009-7-14

THE head of a gang who bought stolen mopeds and sold them back to the original owners through scalpers has been jailed for two years for hiding illegal income, a district court said yesterday. Four other members...

Text abuse

Metro | Courts
2009-6-11

A WOMAN who sent her ex-husband hundreds of insulting text messages after their divorce has been ordered to apologize to him in writing and pay him 2,000 yuan (US$290) for causing mental anguish, the Putuo District...

Flat buyer wants breach penalty back

Metro | Courts
2009-6-11

A MAN who canceled his contract to buy an apartment has asked the developer to return the 100,000 yuan (US$14,640) of a penalty for breach of contract, a district court heard yesterday. The developer refunded 2.11...