Well's spiritual tale bubbles over
ONCE upon a time, Shanghai Star British copy editor, Sophie Gale, met an elderly Shanghai lady. The bespectacled, quaint woman, in her 80s, speaking in English, told Sophie she was from Bubbling Well.
'365' project for better housing
IT is now very hard for Wang Jilin to pick out the exact location of his old house on the expanse of green land now covered with flowers he once lived on for over 40 years.
Pimp kills wife's client
A MAN who had been acting as a pimp for his wife and helped bludgeon one of her clients to death, was recently prosecuted at Zhabei District Procuratorate.
Waiting for your ship to come in
A LIFE-size cardboard cut-out of a blonde air stewardess with "WELCOME" written across her midriff greets customers of China Travel Service (CTS) shipping department, inside the Jingmen (Golden Gate) Hotel on Nanjing Road West. A notice on the wall at reception reads in Chinese "Whatever your needs, we will promptly meet them."
2 husbands face court hearing
YANGPU District Court recently prosecuted a man who tried to gas his wife, his lover and himself after his wife refused to agree to a divorce.
Tianyuan signs court pact
AN agreement to prevent possible cases of corruption during the relocation of Tianyuan Chemical Plant (Tianyuan) was recently signed by Changning District Procuratorate with the plant.
Winds, rain freshens urban air
STRONGER winds and more rain helped disperse air pollutants in Shanghai last week, making the city's air cleaner.
Move to Pudong
AS the 10th anniversary of the opening up of Pudong New Area draws close, major domestic financial institutions are shifting their Shanghai business headquarters to the Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone, billed as Shanghai's new financial centre.
Seeking solutions to pollution on-line
DO you dream about sleeping without being woken by noisy trucks in the middle of the night or power drills in the morning? Touring the Bund and being able to breathe fresh air? Or walking along the brilliant Nanjing Road pedestrian mall without getting your nose assaulted with cigarette smoke?
Tourists can stay 2 days visa-free
ALL overseas tourists who come to Shanghai via Pudong International Airport or Hongqiao International Airport may now stay for up to 48 hours without having to obtain a visa beforehand.
Banks on y2k alert for leap year change
DESPITE the smooth global transference into the third millennium virtually Y2K bug-free, local banks said they are still on the alert for millennium bug glitches today and yesterday - also considered high risk days.
Hongqiao airport ranks top in China
HONGQIAO Airport ranked top among China's airports, handling 752,300 tons of cargo and mail last year, according to statistics released by the Civil Aviation Administration of China yesterday.
Shanghai to have 11 metro lines
A NETWORK of rail track including a total of 11 metro lines, seven light rail lines and three rail tracks is to be constructed in the city, according to Shanghai Urban Planning and Administration Bureau.
Internet helps in fight against crime
By Zhang Xiong
WHILE computer hackers are a headache for the police, the web is also a useful weapon for the police in investigating crimes. According to statistics during a national campaign co-ordinated by the Ministry of Public Security last year, information leading to the arrest of about 140,000 of a total of 230,000 criminal suspects wanted for crimes last year was found through computer networks. During the period from July to September when a campaign aimed at seizing criminal suspects was launched, the China Criminal Information Centre website received over 2.6 million hits. In Shanghai alone, information about 1,400 of the city's 1,800 suspects wanted for questioning was received through the net. Early this year, a senior police officer said that the increase of the use of the web in police work called for the establishment of "web police." It was by linking up with colleagues in Xinjiang via the net, for example, that police were able to solve the murder of a Taiwanese businessman on Zhongshan Road North that occurred in October last year. On October 23, police were informed that one suspect in the case might be hiding in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Through the computer net-work that Shanghai police sent information about the suspect to police in the area. Using pictures and other information about the suspect received over the Internet, police in Xinjiang were able to catch the suspect. The web is also an important tool in cracking down on on-line crimes. In one case last August, for example, a Shanghai resident published a woman's name and telephone number on the Board Broadcasting Station (BBS), portraying her as a prostitute. Police were able to identify Xu, a resident in Pudong, as the defamer through the Internet. The web is also helping the police in other aspects of their work. Just before Spring Festival this year, an old lady from Anhui Province came to visit her son in Shanghai but got lost at the intersection of Changming and Wuning roads. When police came to her rescue, the only information she could provide was that her son was called Huang Ming. The police searched the name on the web and, after careful screening, the police found her son in 10 minutes.
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