Kid-stabbing suspect caught

    Police in Jiangxi Province arrested the key suspect* in a stabbing case that left two schoolchildren dead and another seriously injured a week ago.

    Police caught Zhang Yangxi in Banqiao Village, Guixi City, on November 4. Zhang allegedly attacked the three children when they were walking home from school in neighboring Luojia Village in Yiyang County, Shangrao City, on October 31.

    Two Africans arrested

    Police in China have arrested two African men and issued an international arrest warrant* for another after they allegedly swindled* a Chinese man out of nearly 2.18 million yuan (US$357,000).

    The fraud came to light after a Zhumadian native, surnamed Xiao, in Henan Province, filed a report with police on September 18.

    One of the men, with the username “Tropple,” befriended Xiao on a chat forum in August. Tropple claimed to be an American woman serving with the U. N. peacekeeping forces in Congo.

    Two other men were also part of the scam*. The two men who helped Tropple by exchanging the money into a different currency in China are now in police custody.

    Boss of fake U.S. college jailed

    A Chinese woman was jailed for more than 16 years for running a fake U.S. university that served as a front for an immigration scam.

    Susan Su Xiao-ping, founder and president of Tri-Valley University in the San Francisco Bay area, made US$5.6 million by charging hundreds of foreigners for visa-related documents that allowed them to live and work in the United States.

    $40b goes to Silk Road fund

    China will contribute US$40 billion to set up a Silk Road infrastructure* fund to boost connectivity* across Asia, President Xi Jinping announced on Saturday.

    The fund will be for investing in infrastructure, resources and industrial and financial cooperation, among other projects, Xi said when making a five-point proposal on promoting interconnected development in the Asia-Pacific region. (SD-Agencies)