Private pilots
A FORMER air stewardess is to be the first person in China to buy a Raytheon A36 private plane (worth $600,000 in the United States) with a bank loan.
Questions over murder
INVESTIGATIONS are continuing into the murder on April 2 of a German family of four in Nanjing in East China's Jiangsu Province.
Zone cargo to jump customs
CARGO arriving at Pudong International Airport is expected to be able to enter Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone in Pudong directly in one or two months.
Shanghai to link with provincial expressways
CHINA'S leading industrial and commercial city of Shanghai plans to build 13 expressways with a total length of 650 kilometres over the next decade.
Children's cultural festival on the way
MORE than 1,000 children from home and abroad will take part in the Third Shanghai International Children's Cultural and Arts Festival during summer vacation.
Chinese history encyclopaedia published
AFTER 22 years, nearly 1,000 Chinese historians have finally completed "The Chinese History Encyclopaedia."
On-line porn editor in police custody
AN employee of a web client company from Central China's Hunan Province has given himself up to police for posting 33 pornographic pictures on a website which also provided links with international pornographic websites.
4 arrested in counterfeit RMB raid
A JOINT operation between police in South China's Guangdong Province and Shanghai police resulted in the recent arrest of four suspects and confiscated counterfeit money with a face value of 443,900 ($53,600).
Cashier tricked into serving a group of thieves
A GROUP of hearing-and-speech-impaired young women who stole 2,500 yuan ($302) in an elaborate ruse were prosecuted yesterday at Minhang Procuratorate.
Orange farmers fear fruition of import pact
ORANGES are a major source of income for Sichuan farmer Liu Jingquan. But things may have to change as American citrus imports, banned for over 10 years, come on the Chinese market once more.
Fake bicycle maker arrested
By Wan Lixin
A SUSPECT who specialized in manufacturing fake Phoenix brand bicycles was detained after a recent surprise raid in which municipal police confiscated 2,473 bicycles and many components. Police were informed on March 6 that 37-year-old Chen Genrong, an operator of a local company, was suspected of manufacturing the fake Phoenix brand bicycles in a rented building in Gongqingtuan Road. The building was put under close surveillance the following week. It was found Chen had hired a dozen migrant workers who were busy from 7:00 am to 10:00 pm assembling the fake brand bicycles. Every day, an average of 200 to 300 crates containing about 1,500 bicycles would be shipped from the building. Their manufacture was kept secret because once the workers arrived, the gate would be locked from the inside. The finished products would be shipped for a storage in another location before they were sold across the country. On March 14, over 30 local police in four groups launched a surprise raid. Chen was seized, and many of the finished and unfinished fake products confiscated. Police estimate that at least 1,000 of the bicycles have been sold in Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces.
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