15 jailed A TOTAL of 15 people were given jail terms of between six and 16 months for organizing online gambling. Three ringleaders had hired 14 people since January 2017 to manage a gambling operation on WeChat and charged each winning gambler a 3-percent commission. Some 420 gamblers had been involved and the accumulated funds reached 43.7 million yuan (US$6.33 million) before they were caught in March. Toll fees THE expressways won’t be toll free during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. The city’s transport authority estimates a travel surge will begin at 3:30 p.m. Friday. Shenzhen checkpoints estimate a daily average of 700,000 travelers will cross the border during the holiday. Flight to Rangoon CHINA Southern Airlines will launch a flight between Shenzhen and Rangoon, Myanmar, starting Oct. 28. The flight will operate four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. It will leave Shenzhen at 11:10 p.m. and arrives in Rangoon at 1 a.m. The return flight leaves at 2 a.m. and arrives in Shenzhen at 6:15 a.m. |