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Police Put up Reward in Deadly Robbery 16 china • weekend SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 2012 CHINA DAILY Police put Tibetan tourism up reward village earning in deadly more By LI YAO robbery [email protected] Villagers in the Tibet autonomous region are earning more income as they increase their capacity By XU WEI in Chongqing and taking a large sum of to accommodate and cater [email protected] cash, police said. for tourists. By of Friday aft ernoon, the In Tashigang village, a Police have offered a bank outlet had been closed scenic spot in southeast reward of 500,000 yuan and police had cordoned Tibet’s Nyingchi prefec- ($78,600) to anyone who can off the crime scene. Blood ture, tourism income offer information that will stains could still be seen on increased to 1.5 million lead to the arrest of a sus- the ground, and the dead yuan ($235,800) in 2011, pect in a deadly shooting in woman’s car was still parked or 61 percent of the entire Chongqing on Friday. outside the bank. WU LINHONG / FOR CHINA DAILY year’s revenues. Th e police have identifi ed Zhu Xiaoying, who runs Rescuers search for trapped residents amid collapsed houses at Shenjiakeng village, Zhoushan city, Zhejiang province, on Friday. All 303 villagers are the suspect as Zhou Kehua, a milk shop opposite the grateful to the team from a 42-year-old from Ertang outlet, said she thought the the prefecture tourism village, Shapingba district of sound of the gunfire came bureau, who helped them Chongqing municipality. from a tire popping. build up tourism capacity. Th e shooting occurred at “I did not realize it was a Reservoir collapse leaves 10 dead Villagers now enjoy about 9:34 am on Friday out- robbery until I heard some- rising living standards side a Bank of China outlet one shout ‘Robbery!”’ Zhu BY XU JUNQIAN during a phone interview with and Wednesday, the village was In Anhui province, Haikui and increasing revenues, in Shapingba district. Zhou said. in Shanghai the local radio station, about six one of the most heavily hit plac- killed three people and aff ected thanks to the support of the is alleged to have killed a Zhu went out of her shop [email protected] hours aft er the collapse. es, receiving 270 mm of rainfall. nearly 2.17 million residents, team, said a villager named woman and wounded two and saw two people, a man Chen said most rescues of the But Zhu, the spokesman, said as well as destroyed more than Pema. men in a robbery attempt, and a woman, lying in blood. An 180,000-cubic-meter took place within an hour of the it is too early to make a connec- 2,400 houses, the ministry said Pema, from a fi ve-mem- Chongqing police said in a Zhu said she saw the gun- reservoir in rural Zhoushan, collapse. tion between the typhoon and in a report. ber household, runs a rural statement. man walking away from the Zhejiang province, collapsed at The local government has the collapse. In Shanghai, the typhoon home inn and has earned Zhou took a shoulder bag scene of the shooting and dawn on Friday, killing at least provided no information about Some netizens who claimed killed two people and aff ected 68,000 yuan so far this year. from the dead woman, fl ed then shoot a security guard 10 people and injuring 27 others. the number of missing people, to be residents of the village 361,000 others, the ministry Most of that income the scene and then took a from the bank who came out Th e 10 victims killed includ- or the population of the village, wrote on Sina Weibo, one of the said, adding that more than 50 comes from tourists’ pur- motorcycle taxi, police said. to chase him. ed six females and four males. or the defi nite cause of the col- most popular micro-blogging houses were destroyed. chases, mainly of rare herb- In a notice issued to the “The security guard was Seven of them are older than 74, lapse. websites in China, that the res- Th e typhoon also killed one al medicines, such as cat- public, police described shot in the right arm. It and one is a 12-year-old child, “To find the missing is our ervoir has been in disrepair for person and forced 126,000 oth- erpillar fungus, and local Zhou as being 167 centime- scared everyone, and no one according to an official state- fi rst priority, and we will spare years. ers to be evacuated in Jiangsu food specialties. ters tall and having a junior else dared to stand in his ment from the local govern- no eff orts to save the injured,” Th ey said no people or orga- province, as well as forced Nyima Tsering, the middle school education. way,” Zhu said. ment. Th e oldest victim is 87. said Zhu Jun, spokesman of nizations have claimed the res- nearly 1.55 million people in leader of the team, said He has a strong Chongq- Zhu said she tried to call It also said that at least 80 local Daishan county, which admin- ervoir, a 28.5-meter-high rain- Zhejiang to move, according to that from early on, villag- ing accent, relatively dark the police but couldn’t reach families have suff ered as a result isters the village. water-collecting clay structure, the ministry. ers had seen tourism as an skin, and a scar on his right them. Police did not arrive of the disaster. Sitting on the north of as their property. Haikui, the 11th typhoon of engine for economic pros- eyebrow. until 10 am, when they sent The collapse — believed by Zhoushan, the fi shing and ship- As the reservoir has leaked the year, is the third typhoon perity, but they could not Zhou has committed rob- the victims to a hospital, Zhu some to be a result of Typhoon ping hub of the highly indus- several times, local residents to hit China’s eastern coast in a expand the market because bery several times in Jiangsu said. Haikui, which brought torren- trialized Yangtze River Delta, have reported the situation to week aft er the storms Saola and of scarce resources, poor and Hunan provinces, as tial rain to the area — fl ooded Shenjiakeng village is largely government departments, but Damrey hit the region over the infrastructure and uncoor- well as Chongqing since He Lei contributed coastal Shenjiakeng village populated by migrant workers got no response. weekend. dinated operations. 2004, killing several people to this story. with water and silt, submerging from other cities who work at In another development, Though no casualties have After Nyima Tsering’s a large area and damaging at ship-manufacturing companies. Typhoon Haikui has left six been reported in Jiangxi prov- team arrived, the village least a third of the homes there. Officials said the fact that people dead and forced more ince so far, the Nanchang Rail- began to run rural-home “Most of the houses are made many migrant workers lived than 2.17 million people to be way Bureau said that as the inns as cooperative busi- from stones and clay, which in the village has “added to the moved in four provincial-level typhoon moved westward, 12 nesses, the fi rst such busi- was very easily washed away diffi culties of locating and iden- regions in East China, Xinhua trains running on the Anhui- ness model in Nyingchi. by fl oods,” said Chen Fu, chief tifying the missing”. News Agency cited the Minis- Jiangxi Railway have been The team also intro- of the Zhoushan firefighting As Typhoon Haikui lashed try of Civil Aff airs as saying on stranded by floods. Work to duced uniform operational branch, speaking at the site Zhejiang province on Tuesday Friday. repair the damage is under way. practices, governing how to keep accounts and main- tain required sanitary stan- dards. Five chief projects have been identifi ed to strength- Food packaging fails safety tests en the village’s capacity to accommodate tourists. By JIN ZHU national safety standards for By Friday afternoon, no Since the country’s current With total investment esti- [email protected] external packaging. food enterprises involved in regulations have not clarifi ed mated at 4.95 million yuan, CHEN CHAO / CHINA NEWS SERVICE Insiders predict that such the study said they plan to that outside packaging should they will install a waste Police on Friday investigate the site of a robbery in which An industry study showed scandals are unlikely to be pull their products off store also meet the same standards disposal system, as well as a woman was killed and two men were injured by gunfi re in that some well-known food avoided in the short term shelves. as inside packaging, many build a new community front of a bank in Shapingba district, Chongqing. products in China fail to meet because of lax enforcement. Uni-President Enterprises enterprises exploited the loop- recreation center and four Dong Jinshi, executive vice- (China) Investment, a major hole, she said. model home inns, Nyima president of the International producer of instant noodles, Zhang Jun, a 35-year-old Tsering said. Food Packaging Association, disputed the study’s results resident of Beijing, is taking The village is going said its tests found many paper on Friday, saying “all paper a stand aft er seeing the report. through a transforma- cups for instant noodles and cups for its instant noodles “I believed both inside and tion, as some projects have milk tea have excessive fl uo- met the national standards on outside packages for food and already been completed, rescent whitening agent on packaging”, according to an drink must be made from and others are in prepara- their outside packaging.
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