Ivory smugglers
HUANGGANG Checkpoint seized 100 smuggled ivory products weighing 16 kilograms on Saturday, the department said yesterday.
The contraband was allegedly carried by two Chinese men returning from Africa.
Demolition cost
THE cost of demolishing the illegal Sea Palace off Dapeng in Longgang District had been estimated at more than 10 million yuan (US$1.52 million), Chinese-language media reported, quoting the owner of the floating villa. Guo Kuizhang, who allegedly spent nearly 100 million yuan building the villa, said he had not been told who would pay for the demolition.
Prints win awards
NINETEEN prints won the Guanlan International Prints Awards at the Third Guanlan Print Biennale in Bao an District. A total of 3,697 paintings by 1,991 artists from 81 countries and regions were on display at the biennale, which opened Saturday. The winning works were chosen by judges from China, the United States, Belgium and Japan.
Thieves caught
FIVE people were seized for allegedly stealing from a shop in Pingshan New Zone recently.
The suspects pretended to be customers and asked the shopkeeper, Peng, to deliver two 50-kg bags of rice to Luwu Village on May 5.
When Peng arrived, he could not contact the customer. When he returned to the store, he found it had been ransacked, with 17,000 yuan in cash and cigarettes worth 3,000 yuan missing.
Monitoring brigade
SHENZHEN police set up an electronic camera monitoring brigade yesterday to tighten traffic control.
The brigade was transformed from the bureau s science and technology department. Since they started installing cameras in 1997, 8.23 million offenses have been recorded by 2010 with running red lights and speeding accounting for 40 percent of the total.
Worker electrocuted
A WORKER was electrocuted when he tried to cut an electric wire with scissors while he was decorating a shop in Minzhi Subdistrict, Bao an District, yesterday. The worker, Wang, 40, a native of Henan, was not a qualified electrician, police said.
English contest
CHU KANGNI and Li Zaolong, two Shenzhen Foreign Languages School students, won the Junior and Senior championships at the 21 Century Cup National English Speakiing Competition for Primary and Middle School Students which ended Sunday.
