"Police drop iPhone plan" from South China Morning Post

"JIANGSU- Suzhou police have suspended a plan to buy iPhone 4s after an online posting about it attracted widespread internet criticism, the Oriental Morning Post reports. The police had planned to buy 32 iPhone 4s for use by officers and said they had lots of advantages over other equipment. A 32 gigabyte iPhone 4 sells for 5,999 yuan on Apple's official website."

"Schoolmates kill boy with bricks" from South China Morning Post

JIANGSU - A student in Xinyi was beaten to death by schoolmates last week, bandao.cn reports. The junior-middle-school students' murder was exposed by a post on a Sina blog site on Sunday. It said the boy was ambushed by three others after school and hit with bricks. A witness was cited as saying that two teachers saw the fight but did not intervene."

"Beijing-Shanghai line moves ahead" from South China Morning Post

"The route, which is scheduled to go into operation before the end of next year, serves three municipalities - Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai - and passes through the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu. It effectively connects a quarter of the country's population with bullet-train links.

Railway officials estimate the 24-station route will handle an astounding 80 million passengers in each direction annually."


"The mainland has 7,431km of high-speed rail track in operation - more than any other country in the world."

"Mainland investors back lithium producer for A$91m" from South China Morning Post

"Australian-listed Galaxy Resources has secured A$91.5 million (HK$720 million) from investors, including Jiangsu-based scrap metals processor Fengli and Li Shu Fu, the majority shareholder of Geely Automobile, ahead of its first-quarter listing planned for Hong Kong next year."