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Failed briberySHENZHEN West Express-way Traffi c Police rejected a driver’s attempt at bribery during a stop Saturday night, according to the Shenzhen traffi c police.

The truck loaded with asphalt was intercepted at Shiyan Toll Gate. When police offi cers started to impose fi nes for multiple violations, such as a passenger failing to fasten his seat belt, the driver forgetting his driver’s license and an obscured license plate or refl ective sign, the driver discretely tossed 400 yuan (US$59) into the police car and begged for an exemp-tion.Assault on offi cerA 43-YEAR-OLD woman, surnamed Liu, was taken into administrative custody for 10 days for assaulting police offi cers, according to Shenzhen Railway Police Department.

Liu refused to submit her-self to a security check at the Futian High-speed Railway Station on June 19 and kicked an offi cer.

Liu later was detained for disrupting social orders and hindering police duty.Landslide rescueTHE Shenzhen-based China Railway Tunnel No. 3 Depart-ment Engineering Co. Ltd. sent 20 employees at a con-struction site of the Lanzhou-Chengdu Railway to start an on-site search and rescue after a landslide in Maoxian County buried more than 100 people in Sichuan Province on Saturday.

The railway project con-tractor also offered machin-ery, technicians and rescue employees to help in the rescue work. The fi rst batch of rescue teams arrived at the scene two hours after the inci-dent. As of 4 p.m. Saturday, the team has provided more than 20 personnel, two large pieces of equipment and three vehicles.

SHENZHEN Customs busted 192 drug traffi cking cases in the past 12 months, a year-on-year increase of 40 percent, and ranked fi rst in China’s customs system in terms of drug cases, local Chinese-language media reported yesterday.

Among the 1,317 kg of drugs, 379 kg were heroin and ice, Shenzhen Customs said in a release Sunday, on the eve of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Traffi cking that fell on yesterday.

In the past 12 months, Shenzhen Customs allied with police on 11 anti-drug actions, intercepting 145 kilograms of narcotics that were intended to be sent overseas through mail services.

Shenzhen Customs worked

with authorities in foreign coun-tries to establish and develop a communication mechanism. In a joint action in March, Shenzhen Customs busted a cross-border sea freight drug traffi cking case through cooperation with Dong-guan, Hong Kong and Australia. Five suspects were arrested and 101.7 kilograms of methamphet-amine were seized.

Shenzhen Customs intercepted two packages that were declared as food to be delivered to France and Britain last November. Two bags of white crystal particles, weighing 986.32 grams, were later identifi ed as methamphet-amine.

In the past 12 months, Shenzhen police have seized 9,357 kilograms of different

SZ Customs seizes 1,317 kg of drugs

types of drugs and drug making materials, uncovered 2,730 drug-related crimes and busted 243 rings, according to a meeting of Shenzhen police last week.

A total of 3,636 suspects were

criminally detained and 2,723 were arrested. The city also gave 2.41 million yuan (US$352,406) in cash rewards to whistleblow-ers, police said.

(Han Ximin, Lei Kaibin)

A HEALTH education event was held at Shenzhen University on Sunday to mark International Epilepsy Care Day, which is tomorrow, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported yesterday.

According to Yang Guo’an, president of the city’s health education and promotion asso-ciation, there are around 100,000 epileptic patients in Shenzhen and more than 60 percent of them are children. He called upon people’s compassion and understanding for children suffering from epi-lepsy because misunderstandings and discrimination can overbur-den them with stress.

Epilepsy is a group of neurologi-cal disorders characterized by epi-leptic seizures. Epileptic seizures are episodes that vary in intensity from brief and nearly undetectable to long periods of vigorous shak-ing. These episodes can result in physical injuries including occa-sional broken bones. Epilepsy has become the second-most common neurological disease in China fol-lowing headaches.

A video produced by Shenzhen Children’s Hospital was played during the event, demonstrat-ing the emergency treatment for patients suffering from epileptic seizures.

By hosting a number of health education activities, the event’s organizers hope that students, parents and the public will gain a better understanding of epilepsy and compassion for epileptic patients. (Zhang Yang)

60% of SZ’s epileptic patients are children

Zhang Qianzhqcindy@163.com

WITH Shenzhen’s Vice Mayor Wu Yihuan as a witness, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen signed coopera-tive deals with the University of Minnesota to set up a long-term collaboration relationship yes-terday at Wuzhou Guest House.

“The University of Minnesota has tremendous strength in edu-cation and scientifi c research. The two universities will initiate in-depth collaboration such as

“3+2” combined bachelor’s/master’s programs, teacher exchanges and post-doctoral joint training, with the intention of strengthening the interfl ow of the two universities and promot-ing the development of intercol-legiate and inter-regional fl ow of talents, academic exchanges, and collaboration in scientifi c research,” said Xu Yangsheng, president of CUHK(SZ), during a welcoming speech.

“We will also develop joint research projects in fi elds such as environmental science, clean

energy, data science, biomedi-cal engineering and robots, and explore the possibility of broad-ening the scope of collabora-tion in education and scientifi c research,” Xu said.

Eric W. Kaler, president of the University of Minnesota, said: “I know Shenzhen has a vibrant economy and a rich culture of innovation. The Shenzhen city gov-ernment is visionary in investing in higher education and advanced research to ensure the city’s long-term economic growth.”

“We spend about US$800

million every year on research on agriculture, medicine and a wide range of engineering including biological science. I can envision our partnership including the establishment of joint research between the two universities in environmental sciences, data sciences, advanced manufacturing and renewable energy environment,” he said.

Kaler said he anticipates more cooperation not only between the two universities, but also between Shenzhen and the U.S. state of Minnesota.

Universities ink long-term collaboration deals

A FAMILY was fi nally reunited in Shenzhen on Friday, 19 years after the son, known as Ye, was abducted while sleeping at home on a stormy night in Guizhou Province.

Ye, who works in Shenzhen, went to the Criminal Investiga-tion Department of Shenzhen Municipal Public Security Bureau in May to ask police for help in fi nding his biological parents. He told the police that

he suspected that he had been abducted when he was young.

The CID took Ye’s blood sample and entered his DNA information into the national DNA database for missing children. They con-fi rmed that Ye, born in January 1992, had been abducted in Guizhou in 1998. Ye’s biological parents’ DNA information was also recorded in the database. Ye’s original surname was Liang.

The police arranged a reunion

in Shenzhen for the family. The father said he had never stopped thinking about his son over the past 19 years. “We would put an extra pair of chopsticks on the table during festivals because we fi rmly believed that he would come home one day,” said the father.

The father recalled that he and his wife were working in Anhui Province when they received his mother-in-law’s call, saying

that their son had gone missing. The boy was sleeping at home while it was pouring outside. His grandmother found out that he was missing and called local police, who caught the suspected abductor, but didn’t track down the child.

Over the past 19 years, the Liangs visited many places in China, including Fujian and Anhui, trying to fi nd their son.

(Zhang Qian)

Man reunites with family 19 years after abduction

Young factory workers participate in a match-making event in Hangcheng Subdistrict, Bao’an District, on Sunday. More than 120 employees of factories in the subdistrict joined the activity organized by the subdistrict offi ce. A variety of group games were arranged to help the workers get to know each other. Chen Ximin

Match-making activity for factory workers

Police offi cers destroy drugs that the city’s customs seized. SD-Agencies