AmCham president awarded 2012 Peace Through Commerce Medal
Harley Seyedin, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in South China HARLEY SEYEDIN, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in South China, known as AmCham, was awarded the 2012 Peace...
View ArticleShenzhen customs busts 2 Hong Kong smuggling rings
SHENZHEN Customs recently busted two smuggling rings mainly consisting of Hong Kong residents who allegedly smuggled electronics worth almost 100 million yuan (US$16 million), the administration...
View ArticleUS hospital patient, 65, accuses female nurse in her 20s of rape
A 65-year-old hospital patient claims he has been raped by a young female nurse. The patient was recovering after a motorcycle accident at Temple University Hospital, in the US city of...
View ArticleShenzhen sees rapid increase in child leukemia cases in recent years
SHENZHEN has seen a rapid increase in recent years in the number of children suffering from leukemia, and families of migrant workers account for nearly 90 percent of the increase, Shenzhen Economic...
View Article2 get death in trafficking 26kg of drugs from Shenzhen to Shanghai
TWO men were sentenced to death yesterday for transporting narcotics weighing over 26 kilograms from Shenzhen City and selling them in Shanghai, the Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court ruled....
View ArticleIndian engineering students develop electrified anti-rape underwear
Engineering students in India have developed lingerie that can shock a person up to 82 times and automatically contact the authorities. "The lingerie with global positioning system, global system...
View ArticleUK drug runner Paul Cairns has daughter with local girl inside Caribbean prison
"Me and my daughter”: Paul Cairns with daughter in Facebook snap Paul Cairns (L) and Dan Squires (R) arrested in the Dominican Republic Dan Squires with a cigar in prison Paul Cairns A British...
View ArticleUS man Billy Cheesman Jr. uses real airplane to stage plane crash for April Fool
Cheesman staged the crash after a friend gave him a plane that could no longer fly Cheesman rigged the plane using a crane then put caution tape around the area to make it look like a real crash...
View ArticleUK tourist Sarah Groves, 24, stabbed to death on houseboat in Kashmir
Sarah Groves was from Guernsey and is reported to have been staying in a houseboat in Kashmir Police in Indian-administered Kashmir are questioning a Dutch national about the killing of a British...
View ArticleAustralian 'Biggest Loser' Kevin Moore, 254kg, booted off the show
Kevin "Big Kev" Moore and his mother Rosemary have been eliminated from The Biggest Loser. Picture: Channel Ten Source: news.com.au MOMENTS before Big Kev, the biggest ever contestant to enter the...
View ArticleShenzhen customs struggling in baby formula fight
SHENZHEN Customs has not figured out a reliable way to prevent travelers from bringing one or two cans of baby formula into Shenzhen and selling them for profit, border officials said. Under the...
View ArticleFoxconn Shenzhen worker sacked for taking sleeping pills
A Foxconn employee in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, was fired recently for disrupting administration order by taking sleeping pills, which lead authorities to believe he was suicidal, the Beijing Times...
View ArticleShenzhen, Guangzhou and Xiamen named China's most open cities
Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Xiamen on the southeast coast are the three places in China with the greatest economic, technological and social openness, according to a report released Saturday at the Boao...
View ArticleUS same-sex couple accused of raping adopted children repeatedly
A same-sex couple accused of sexually abusing their adopted children are facing trial after withdrawing from a plea agreement as they are facing new allegations of molestation. George Harasz and...
View ArticleMetro toilet rule raises complaints in Shenzhen
SOME Shenzhen residents are complaining about a Shenzhen Metro Co. rule that prohibits people from using a public bathroom at Airport East Station unless they leave an ID card with station staff,...
View ArticleShenzhen homeowner apologizes for security guard's death
A BAO’AN District homeowner has agreed to compensate a security guard’s family for the guard’s death after he fell out of a fifth-story window in the man’s apartment, the Southern Metropolis Daily...
View ArticleBed sheet suspends Shenzhen Metro Longhua Line for 30 minutes
WIND blew a bed sheet onto an electricity cable along Shenzhen Metro’s Longhua Line on Saturday afternoon, suspending service for about half an hour. The overhead cables that supply electricity to the...
View ArticleUS porn queen Jenna Jameson arrested for alleged battery
At the height of her success, Jameson -- whose real name is Jenna Marie Massoli -- appeared in countless adult films Former porn star Jenna Jameson was charged with battery over the weekend after...
View ArticleIndian driver Santosh Maruti Mane gets death penalty for killing 9 people in...
Santosh Maruti Mane is led away after the incident A court in India has given the death penalty to a bus driver who killed nine people and injured 27 by driving into vehicles and pedestrians in the...
View ArticleN. Korea withdrawing all workers from joint-Korean Kaesong industrial zone
Some 50,000 North Koreans and 500 Southerners work at Kaesong North Korea has announced it is withdrawing all its workers from the joint-Korean Kaesong industrial zone and suspending operations...
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