Suspects detained All six wanted suspects in connection with a high-profile telecom scam* linked to the death of a new college recruit are now in police custody* after the last suspect surrendered himself to the police, Fujian police said on Sunday morning. The suspects are all male aged from 19 to 35, five of whom are from Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, and the other is from Chongqing Municipality. They are suspected of having fleeced Xu Yuyu, an 18-year-old woman in a rural village in Linyi City, Shandong Province, out of 9,900 yuan (US$1,490). Xu died of cardiac arrest Aug. 21, two days after the fraud. Pilot dead A South African pilot was killed after his aerobatic* aircraft XA42 plummeted* to the ground during a flight show in Northwest China’s Gansu Province on Saturday morning, the event organizer said. Paul Smith died in the crash at about 10:47 a.m. at the 1st Silk Road International General Aviation Convention held at the Danxia airport in the city of Zhangye, the organizer confirmed. A video clip provided by a spectator showed that the plane lost control while making a dive and crashed into the Gobi desert about 100 meters from the airport runway. Hi-resolution satellite China on Thursday published the first pictures transmitted back to earth from Gaofen-3, the country’s first C-band high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite with a resolution of one meter. The State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (SASTIND) published images of the Beijing Capital International Airport, Xiamen City of Fujian Province, the northern port of Tianjin, China’s fourth-largest freshwater lake Hongze and the Yellow Sea, which were taken by the satellite. Mars rover China on August 23 released images of a Mars probe and rover which the country plans to send to the Red Planet within five years. China plans to send a spacecraft to orbit Mars, make a landing, and deploy a rover in July or August 2020, said Zhang Rongqiao, chief architect of the Mars mission. (SD-Agencies) | 