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  <title>Shanghai Daily: More to Tell</title> 
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	<title>Quick-thinking police rescue kidnapped woman</title> 
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	http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200909/20090907/article_412994.htm
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	<pubDate>7 Sep 2009 1:08:58 +0800</pubDate> 
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	<author>Jane Chen and Zha Minjie</author>
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	AFTER being stabbed, gagged, tied up and held hostage for 27 hours, a 35-year-old wife and mother was reunited with her family, thanks to police who foiled the kidnap attempt.
 
The alarm was raised after Ma failed...]]></description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[AFTER being stabbed, gagged, tied up and held hostage for 27 hours, a 35-year-old wife and mother was reunited with her family, thanks to police who foiled the kidnap attempt.
 
The alarm was raised after Ma failed to pick up her daughter from school after an afternoon's shopping at a local hypermarket, Changning District police said.
 
Her husband Ye told police that he got a call at 1:30am on August 28 from the kidnappers who demanded a ransom of 6 million yuan (US$878,374) for his wife. 
 
"I heard my wife crying over the phone," said Ye.
 
Later that night the kidnappers reduced the ransom demand to 3 million yuan. The abductors told Ye to pick up Ma's white Mercedes-Benz car from a roadside in Minhang District. A plainclothes police officer who collected the car found blood stains inside, police said.
 
Police combed neighboring streets thoroughly but found no proof that Ma had been killed, so they checked hypermarket security video tapes to find evidence.
 
They discovered a black car owned by a man surnamed Dong had been involved in the alleged kidnapping outside the Carrefour supermarket.
 
Traffic surveillance tapes led police to track down Dong's hideout in Zhongshan Road N. in Putuo District about 3am on August 29. Dong told police that Ma was being held somewhere else guarded by an associate surnamed Wang. 
 
Police burst into the room where Ma was being held and rescued her. Ma had blood from a stab wound and was bound and gagged, they said.
 
Dong said he was driven to the kidnap scheme after losing 1.6 million yuan.
 
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	<title>'Magic' man returns from cycling trip to Tibet</title> 
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	http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200907/20090727/article_408700.htm
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	<pubDate>27 Jul 2009 0:58:14 +0800</pubDate> 
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	<author>Liang Yiwen</author>
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	ZHU Junxian just can't stop cycling.
 
The 75-year-old man has traveled more than 105,000 kilometers across the country on his bike. And he just returned on July 17 from his latest epic journey, a trip to the Tibet...]]></description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[ZHU Junxian just can't stop cycling.
 
The 75-year-old man has traveled more than 105,000 kilometers across the country on his bike. And he just returned on July 17 from his latest epic journey, a trip to the Tibet Autonomous Region.
 
When Shanghai Daily visited him on Friday, he was busy compiling a diary of the trip and arranging souvenirs and gifts given to him by well wishers along the way.
 
Though slightly hunched, Zhu is thin and very fit. The retired judge is also talkative and persuasive.
 
"I never feel lonely on my bicycle journeys," he said, showing some of the gifts he received, including a calligraphy work calling him "a magic old man." 
 
"People treated me very kindly. They always arrange free accommodation for me and give me water and fruit. I made friends with some," said Zhu, who was the oldest Olympic torch bearer in Shanghai for the Beijing Games torch relay last year.
 
Zhu set out on the 5,000km bicycle trip to Tibet for the fifth time from the city's Expo site in April. His goal was to publicize the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
 
He carried Expo banners, flags and 1.5-meter-tall Haibao models to promote the event along the way. He left Haibao models in 23 locations including Potala Palace in the regional capital Lhasa. Thousands of Tibetans visited and took pictures with the Haibao model everyday, which made him very proud.
 
Zhu said many people in rural areas are unaware of the World Expo and asked him whether Haibao was an animal. He would always patiently answer all their questions.
 
"Many Tibetern people may not have the opportunity to visit the Expo site in Shanghai. I want to help them learn more," Zhu said.
 
Zhu said he started cycling during the Korean War about six decades ago. After the war ended, some soldiers said they would take a train to Beijing to pay respect to Chaiman Mao Zedong. Not Zhu. He decided to cycle to Beijing from his hometown in Shanghai.
 
But he did not fulfill this wish until he retired in 1995. He has cycled to every province, autonomous region and municipality in China.
 
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	<title>Longer-term residency permits makes life easier</title> 
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	http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200907/20090714/article_407361.htm
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	<pubDate>14 Jul 2009 0:50:59 +0800</pubDate> 
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	<author>Dong Hui</author>
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	WHEN Frenchman Jean-Philippe Soulard arrived in Shanghai in April, he didn't expect his one-year residence permit to be extended to three years so quickly.
 
Today, two weeks after Shanghai started its pilot program...]]></description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[WHEN Frenchman Jean-Philippe Soulard arrived in Shanghai in April, he didn't expect his one-year residence permit to be extended to three years so quickly.
 
Today, two weeks after Shanghai started its pilot program to grant foreigners longer-term residency, for up to five years, Soulard will receive his new residence permit from his visa agent. 
 
"In the past you had to go every year to renew your permit. Now with this policy it's from three to five years depending on your roles, so you can renew less," said Soulard, the Asia-Pacific human resource vice president for Air Liquide (China) Holding Co Ltd. "That's convenient and easy."
 
Under the program, qualified foreign professionals whose employer is registered in Pudong New Area will be able to receive residence permits of up to five years if they meet certain requirements such as working as an executive in foreign-owned companies. 
 
"I think the policy's main purpose is to encourage highly skilled people to come here," Soulard said. "It made staying in China (mainland) simple and easy, and you just need to work here and to give what you can bring."
 
Soulard hasn't brought his wife and children to China but said the residency permit would make that easier. 
 
"The policy's main benefit is probably for them to get the same length of residence permit. They will automatically get three years for their residence permits," Soulard said.
 
"With my residence permit, I think it'll be no problem to get out of China and come back."
 
Applying For Residence Permit
 
Q: Where to go? 
 
Shanghai Exit-Entry Administration's Zhangjiang service center: 39-2 Zhangjiang Road;
 
Office hours: 9am to 5pm, Monday to Saturday. 
 
Q: What to bring? 
 
1. A two-inch photo;
 
2. Your residence registration certificate and a copy;
 
3. Your passport with current visa; 
 
4. Your health certificate issued by the Shanghai Exit-Entry Inspection and Quarantine Bureau;
 
5. Two application letters from your employer and yourself;
 
6. Your previous residence permit and a copy;
 
7. Business license or registration certificate of your employer and copies;
 
9. Your work permit and work registration form if your post is below general manager. 
 
10. Documentation to prove you meet one of five application requirements. 
 
Q: What to do in the service center? 
 
1. Fill in an application form;
 
2. Have your photo taken;
 
3. Go through a brief interview.
 
Q: When and how to claim the new permit?
 
After five working days, you can claim the permit at the Shanghai Exit-Entry Administration (1500 Minsheng Road, Pudong New Area). 
 
Please dial 2204-7600 for inquiry. Press 2 for English service.
 
 
 
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	<title>Bus rescuer insists he is not special</title> 
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	<pubDate>9 Jul 2009 1:34:49 +0800</pubDate> 
	<category>More to Tell</category> 
	<author>Wu Shen</author>
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	THE quick-thinking hero who stepped on the brake of an out of control Bridge Route No.3 bus and saved dozens of passengers from injury or worse on Sunday is a 35-year-old primary school teacher who does not have a...]]></description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[THE quick-thinking hero who stepped on the brake of an out of control Bridge Route No.3 bus and saved dozens of passengers from injury or worse on Sunday is a 35-year-old primary school teacher who does not have a driving license.
 
Shanghai native Chen Wei said although he doesn't know how to drive, he had been interested in learning and had been observing bus drivers for some time.
 
The physical education teacher at Shanghai Hangzhou Road No. 1 Primary School said he didn't pull the hand brake as was reported.
 
"I stopped the bus by stepping on the floor brake," he said. "I don't even know where the handbrake is. I can't drive. I was just planning to learn and always watched how drivers worked on the buses."
 
On Sunday night, Chen moved from the last row to the middle of the bus, pulling the driver, who was later declared dead, from a bridge guardrail partly back into the moving vehicle through a smashed window before heading to the front and stepping on the brake.
 
The bus had zigzagged out of control for about 900 meters before Chen stopped it. Three people were killed and 27 others were injured.
 
Chen was on his way home on the bus when it was crossing the Yangpu Bridge from Puxi to Pudong. Sitting in the last row, he felt the bus veer to the left, followed by a big crash. "The lights on the bus went out suddenly after the first collision and everyone was so frightened that they bowed their heads and some crouched down," he said. 
 
When the bus moved into the opposite lane and hit a taxi head-on, many passengers fell on the floor. The bus driver was thrown through the windshield and onto the bridge's guardrail. The bus kept going and smashing into other vehicles, he said. After pulling the driver partly back into the bus, Chen walked his way among the other passengers to the driver's seat.
 
"The cab was really a mess. I tried to control the bus and steer it, but the steering wheel was broken," he said. "I then tried to recall how drivers operate and stop their buses and finally found the brake."
 
Chen insisted he is not a hero.
 
"Don't call me hero," he said. "I don't think there is anything special about me. The only change it will bring to my life is probably more media interview requests."
 
For initial coverage of the story, visit http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=406740&type=Metro 
 
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	<title>Police cunning nabs gang of ice dealers</title> 
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	http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200906/20090625/article_405300.htm
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	<pubDate>25 Jun 2009 1:22:36 +0800</pubDate> 
	<category>More to Tell</category> 
	<author>Emma Dong</author>
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	RESIDENTS in Songjiang District's Yage Garden heard what they thought were firecrackers on the afternoon of May 8. They didn't realize a drugs bust was going down.
 
On the night of May 7, Pudong New Area police...]]></description>
	<content:encoded><![CDATA[RESIDENTS in Songjiang District's Yage Garden heard what they thought were firecrackers on the afternoon of May 8. They didn't realize a drugs bust was going down.
 
On the night of May 7, Pudong New Area police received a tip-off that a gang would be buying two kilograms of methamphetamine, or "ice." Ten narcotics officers were deployed outside a three-story villa in the complex.
 
At 1:30pm on the 8th, a car drew up and a man entered the villa. 
 
"We were expecting several different suppliers," said the unit's commander, who refused to be named. "The perfect time to nab them had not yet arrived." 
 
Sure enough, the gang dispatched a white SUV to pick up another ice supplier about half an hour later. 
 
About 2:30pm, two plainclothes officers parked outside the villa and pretended their car had broken down. Minutes later, the SUV returned and two men got out. When they opened the door of the villa, the officers rushed in after them and wrestled them to the ground. More officers stormed the property and found a locked door on the second floor. 
 
The commander broke it down and saw a man on the room's balcony. "Put down your weapon, I shouted and fired a warning shot," the commander said.
 
The suspect raised a rifle. The unit commander fired again and shot the man dead. He was later confirmed to be the main suspect. 
 
Four suspects were later escorted out of the villa. After searching a car outside, police found 2kg of ice. 
 
For Shanghai Daily's initial coverage of the story, visit http://bit.ly/pLTlK 
 
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