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Suicidal lover gets fatal 'help'

A man who suggested a suicide pact with his girlfriend and then strangled her to death to spare her from pain was arrested for murder yesterday. Yi Xiaochu, 30, of Jiangsu Province, was saved after cutting his own wrist but his girlfriend, whose ...

From XU FANG, Shanghai Daily,  23 Nov 2009

Vegetable-aquatic mix takes patent center stage

AN artificial cultivation complex that breeds organic vegetables and aquatic products attracted most attention at the opening ceremony of the annual Shanghai Patent Week yesterday. Before the visitors was a big aquarium with fish, shrimps and hairy ...

From XU FANG, Shanghai Daily,  20 Nov 2009

Court clears set-up Samaritan

THE white-collar worker who picked up a seeming hitchhiker in distress, only to be roughed up and fined for allegedly driving an illegal taxi, got his vindication in district court yesterday. He also got the award he wanted: The 50 yuan (US$7.30) ...

From XU FANG, Shanghai Daily,  19 Nov 2009

Court rules that fine was illegal entrapment

A WHITE-COLLAR worker is celebrating after winning a lawsuit accusing Minhang District of using entrapment to catch illegal cabbies yesterday. The district court ruled that the traffic law enforcement team should cover the 50 yuan (US$7.32) cost of ...

From XU FANG, Shanghai Daily,  19 Nov 2009

Budget inn chain suing for an apology

A CHAIN of economy inns yesterday appealed a district court's rejection of its lawsuit blaming ctrip.com, China's biggest tour and hotel booking Website, of tarnishing its image by spreading insults in the media. GreenTree Inn, a company backed by ...

From XU FANG, Shanghai Daily,  17 Nov 2009

Judges rule 80,000 yuan in bump-on-subway injury

AN appeals court has ordered a Metro passenger to pay nearly 80,000 yuan (US$11,713) in compensation to a 75-year-old woman because she bumped into the woman when she was getting off a crowded train, causing a head injury. The final verdict made by ...

From XU FANG, Shanghai Daily,  16 Nov 2009

Gas-theft prosecution proves city first

A COUPLE yesterday received a three-year suspended jail term in a Shanghai court for stealing 83,000 yuan (US$12,157) worth of gas to run their restaurant. The Yangpu District People's Court heard the city's first case where individuals faced ...

From XU FANG, Shanghai Daily,  13 Nov 2009

Ex-con con man back to prison

A veteran criminal, who defrauded a woman of about 80,000 yuan (US$11,717) by claiming the ability to shorten her son's imprisonment, was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday. It is the 11th prison sentence for Li Guangming, 51. His record ...

From XU FANG, Shanghai Daily,  12 Nov 2009

180 steered to illegal 'doctor'

SIX members of a ring of illegal medical agents have been arrested for allegedly defrauding some 500,000 yuan (US$73,206) from more than 180 victims by steering them to an unlicensed doctor, Hongkou District prosecutors said yesterday. Prosecutors ...

From XU FANG, Shanghai Daily,  10 Nov 2009

Taipei's vast flower expo to showcase 'Power of Beauty'

WHEN the Shanghai World Expo ends next November, people can enjoy another expo, this one in Taiwan. The Taipei International Gardening and Horticulture Exposition will run from November 6, 2010, to April 25, 2011. "It is fate that two big cities ...

From XU FANG, Shanghai Daily,  9 Nov 2009

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