Fuel price

    THE retail prices of No. 92 gasoline and diesel rose to 6.43 yuan (US$0.92) per liter and 6.02 yuan per liter Thursday after the ninth price hike this year.

    The National Development and Reform Commission raised the price of gasoline and diesel by 435 and yuan and 420 yuan per ton, respectively, which resulted in a price hike of 0.35 yuan and 0.36 yuan per liter.

    Laser lab

    A LASER lighting laboratory named after 2014 Nobel laureate in physics Shuji Nakamura was launched in Shenzhen on Tuesday.

    Laser lighting is a frontier technology, which will probably influence and drive huge-scale industries. The newly established lab in Shenzhen, also known as Shenzhen Zhongguang Industrial Technology Research Institute, was bred in Shenzhen’s great environment of creativity and entrepreneurship, technological facilities and governmental support. The lab and institute will focus on core technological innovations in the field of laser lighting, to accelerate the process of industrializing research achievements.

    Peddlers caught

    TWO peddlers selling seafood at Futian Agricultural Produce Market were caught using chloramphenicol to keep the animals fresh.

    Chloramphenicol is a medicine forbidden by the Ministry of Agriculture.

    The two 34-year-old men operated a seafood stand at the market. After chloramphenicol was detected in their seafood products by the Futian Food and Drug Administration in late August, police opened an investigation on the two men and decided to detain them.