Holiday rail service

    SHENZHEN Metro will extend service to midnight during Friday and the May Day holidays to handle a surge of riders between Saturday and Monday.

    The operator estimated that the number of riders on the eight lines may reach a new record of 5 million Friday, the day before the May Day holidays.

    Shenzhen North Railway Station will add trains during peak hours of the holidays including eight pairs between Futian High-speed Rail Station, Shenzhen North Railway Station and Guangzhou South Railway Station. Thirteen pairs of trains will be rearranged for traveling from the Futian station and the north railway station to Xiamen, Changsha, Guangzhou, Shaoyang, Huaihua and Chaoshan.

    Dubai week

    THE third China Dubai Week will be launched before the end of the year, the organizers, the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and Falcon, a strategic advisory company working on behalf of the Dubai leadership, announced in Shenzhen on Tuesday.

    At a news conference, Falcon said it would bring two special gifts, a 10-month Dubai Internship program and the Dubai 100-day Startup Acceleration project, to young college students.

    The annual China Dubai Week, which was initiated in 2015 to promote cooperation in the business, science, culture and education sectors, was held in Beijing and Shanghai for the first two years.

    Metro project

    SHENZHEN Metro Group signed an agreement with China Railway Group Ltd. to train staff to test-run and trial-operate the urban light-rail line in Hanoi, Vietnam.

    This is the second overseas project that Shenzhen Metro has signed on to operate after a project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

    The 13-km rail running between Cat Linh-Ha and Ha Dong has 12 stations and is the first line and urban transportation backbone of Hanoi.

    The service contract involves 89.04 million yuan (US$12.9 million) and its duration is 1 month.

    With a investment of US$553 million from the Chinese Government, the construction was initiated in 2011 by China Railway Engineering Co. Ltd.

    WeChat porn

    NANSHAN police arrested six suspects in four cities who were profiting by spreading obscene video clips on WeChat.