11 probed over blasts

    China’s top procuratorate* on August 27 announced its investigation into 11 officials and port executives for alleged* neglect of duty in the Tianjin warehouse* explosions.

    The officials under investigation include Wu Dai, head of the Tianjin Municipal Transportation Commission, and Zheng Qingyue, president of Tianjin Port (Group) Co. Ltd.

    Wang Jinwen, a senior official with the Ministry of Transport, is also being investigated. The police have detained 12 suspects.

    Waiter detained

    A hotpot eatery* was closed down temporarily after a waiter was detained on suspicion of scalding* a customer after they got into an argument in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province.

    The female customer surnamed Lin was in intensive care* at PLA No. 118 Hospital.

    The altercation occurred on August 24 when Lin, 29, asked the waiter surnamed Zhu, 17, to add some water to their hotpot. Zhu ignored the request and an argument quickly ensued.

    45 jailed for terrorism

    Forty-five people have been given jail terms in China’s western Xinjiang region for terrorism and helping others illegally cross the Chinese border.

    The autonomous region’s higher people’s court said on August 27 that the 45 were tried in 10 cases in courts in Yili, Aksu, Hotan, Kashgar and Karamay recently.

    In two cases, 18 human traffickers* from other parts of the country were found guilty of helping more than 300 people enter Vietnam.

    22 arrested in Cambodia

    Cambodian police arrested 22 Chinese who are suspected of transnational telephone fraud* in southeast Cambodia’s Svay Rieng Province on Saturday.

    A number of telephones and computers were also seized.

    The fraudsters usually identified themselves as court or police staff, saying the call receivers’ bank accounts had been compromised* and the funds should be transferred to other secure accounts.(SD-Agencies)