Police visit 2nd Uber office

    Chinese police on May 6 visited the office of Internet taxi-booking service Uber in a second city in a widening investigation into the company’s operations in China.

    Police visited Uber’s office in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, “to get some information,” an official at the city’s transport commission said.

    The visit was part of a probe into Uber allowing private drivers to offer their services via the taxi-hailing app.

    Nuclear power project built

    China began construction on a pilot nuclear power project using Hualong One technology, a domestically developed third-generation reactor* design, in Fuqing, Southeast China’s Fujian Province, on May 7.

    Xing Ji, chief designer of Hualong One, said China owns the complete intellectual property rights* of Hualong One and the launch of the pilot program will help pave the way for China’s nuclear power equipment to go global.

    Plane skids off runway

    Five passengers were slightly injured after a passenger plane skidded off* a runway while taxiing in a Southeast China airport on Sunday, local authorities said.

    Joyair flight JR1529 careened off the runway while landing at Fuzhou Changle International Airport (FCIA) in Fuzhou City, capital of Fujian Province. A Xinhua journalist at the airport reported seeing smoke from the plane and passengers fleeing the cabin*.

    Pictures on microblog Sina Weibo show that one of the plane’s wings was broken.

    Wanted fugitive extradited

    The second suspect from China’s “100 most wanted economic fugitives*” list who had been hiding overseas was repatriated* on Saturday as part of operation “Sky Net.”

    Li Huabo, a former official in East China’s Jiangxi Province, who fled the country in 2011, had been in Singapore, according to a statement issued by the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).(SD-Agencies)