A woman lawyer in court dress. SHENZHEN lawyers began wearing formal robes in court hearings this week, six years after a national plan to make the dress compulsory for lawyers was shelved. According to a regulation recently passed by the municipal lawyers’ association, lawyers must wear the robes when attending the intermediary people’s court. The […]

Aston Villa players celebrate winning the Peace Cup after defeating Juventus at the Olympic Stadium in Seville, Spain, on Sunday. ASTON Villa overcame Italian powerhouse Juventus to win the Peace Cup on penalties Sunday after both sides had failed to score at the end of extra time. The Italians, who beat Real Madrid 2-1 in […]

HUNDREDS of employees and trainees of a Shenzhen English training center jammed into its office in Futian in protest Saturday, two days after it abruptly closed. A total of 41 employees of Linguaphone Shenzhen — including four foreign teachers — claimed the company owed them a total of 400,000 yuan (US$58,800) in salaries for the […]

START-UPS in Shenzhen will be entitled to subsidies of up to 100,000 yuan (US$14,600) and bank loans of up to 100,000 yuan, the municipal labor and social security bureau told a press conference yesterday. The government policy package is designed to create more jobs in the wake of the financial crisis, Guan Lingen, director general […]

LONGGANG police busted five rings involved in online scams totalling 15,000 yuan (US$2,193) in a week. Seven suspects were arrested in the week from July 19 to 26, Longgang police said in a news release yesterday. Police received a report from a man surnamed Wang on July 20, saying two suspects cheated him out of […]

The reporter was told by Shenzhen Metro Group that three stops of Metro Line 1’s project continued will go into operation by the end of September. On the afternoon of July 31, at Baishizhou Stop, the first part to open to the traffic, the supervisors of construction gave the station agents all the keys to […]

A volunteer (3rd from R) stops pedestrians when the traffic light turned red on a road in the Huaqiangbei area yesterday. Starting yesterday, nearly 1,000 volunteers are being stationed at intersections in Futian District to persuade residents to abide by traffic rules in a weeklong campaign to enhance road safety. Zhang Yaobo “PLEASE wait until […]

Crowds at Shenzhen’s OCT East on Saturday when the theme park announced the opening of all its facilities. THE city government has set a strategic goal to build Shenzhen into an international coastal tourism city. According to an agreement signed Saturday before the ceremony of the opening of all facilities at OCT East, the Shenzhen […]

SHENZHEN will streamline government institutions by more than 30 percent by the end of October, officially launching China’s first administrative structural reform which is being called an experiment in “the separation of powers.” The reform, unveiled at a government meeting chaired by Party chief Liu Yupu on Friday, will separate the functions of the Shenzhen […]

With the 2011 Universiade coming near, construction projects for the universiade, such as the Universiade venues, Metro Line 3, renovation of Shenhui Road, and extension of Shuiguan Express Way, are being underway, which greatly help increase construction enterprise tax in Longgang District. According to statistics，the first half of this year, Local Tax Bureau of Longgang […]