Speeding Porsche

    A PORSCHE driver was found to be speeding and driving under the influence of alcohol after he hit and killed a bike rider at the intersection of Fuqiang Road and Shazui Road in Futian District on Wednesday. A blood test showed that the alcohol content in Li’s blood was 31mg per 100ml.

    App-cab ban

    THE city’s transport commission has ordered eight app-based cab operators in Shenzhen to stop distributing ride orders to non-local app-based cabs from Wednesday. All non-local app-based cabs will be cleared from the local market within a week.

    The public transport bureau has ordered operators to hand in information about app-based cabs in the city and connect their service platforms with the commission’s monitoring platform before Friday.

    Between October and December, the commission’s law enforcement units checked 400 non-local vehicles.

    Official prosecuted

    A FORMER director with Early Stage Investment Office of Futian Government Funded Projects was prosecuted in Yantian District for taking 4.4 million yuan (US$640,000) and HK$700,000 (US$90,269) in bribes, the prosecutors said Wednesday. Liang Yong, 54, served as deputy director and director with Futian Public Works Bureau since December 2015 before he was appointed director of the district investment office in September 2014.

    Executives probed

    MAO JUNHUA, chairman of Tianjun Industrial Shareholding Co., and Feng Yulin, former chairman of the board of supervisors of Shenzhen Investment and Holdings Corp., have been expelled from the Party and handed to judicial departments for investigation of alleged corruption and bribery, disciplinary inspection authorities said.

    Tianjun is a State-owned company under Shenzhen Foreign Trade Group and is a leading agricultural company in Shenzhen engaging in trade, logistics, and property development.

    Feng was suspected of taking bribes and abusing power by helping enterprises take stake in State-owned firms.

    Checkpoint rebuild

    RECONSTRUCTION of the decades-old Huanggang Checkpoint may start by the end of 2018, according to Luo Jianpeng, head of Shenzhen Port Office on the call-in program, Bridge of Communications, on Shenzhen Radio on Wednesday.

    The port authority has completed bid invitations and decided on the location of the new checkpoint. The current checkpoint facility was put into operation in December 1989.

    The checkpoint served about 96,000 travelers a day in 2016. The reconstruction work won’t affect the operation of the checkpoint.

    Forced dismissal

    AN employee from a technology company in Shenzhen was dismissed by her employer because she refused to hand over 3,000 yuan (US$436) in lottery cash she had won through a lucky draw at a thank-you party on behalf of the company. The woman, Zhang Yanfang, thought it was her own luck to win the prize, while the company thought she was representing the company, making it the company’s asset. The firm terminated Zhang’s labor contract on Jan. 3 after her refusal.

    First penalty

    A CLINIC in Longhua was fined 6,000 yuan Tuesday for practices not compliant with the city’s newly enacted medical law, becoming the first wrongdoer to be punished since the law took effect Sunday.

    Xiao Xilan Western Medicine Clinic failed to erect public signs detailing the prices of medicine and medical services, and failed to print its official name on the prescriptions it gave to patients, the city’s health supervision bureau said Wednesday. It is the first time a medical facility has been fined according to Shenzhen’s medical law, which is the first regional medical law in China.