Eagle hunters are hunted by police

Police in Gaoyi County, Hebei Province, are searching for two people suspected of trading State-protected wild eagles.

Police were making a routine check at a crossroads last Friday and pulled up the driver and owner of a minibus, who said they were transporting pigeons.

But when the cops checked the minibus they found 41 eagles in iron cages. When they called forestry experts to help them free the captive birds, however, the two men fled the scene.

(Yanzhao Metropolis News)

Polish visitor saved by police in nick of time

Police helped out a Polish woman who lost her passport by finding and returning it just eight hours before she was to board the plane for her flight home from Beijing.

She discovered she had lost her passport on Wednesday night after checking out of her hotel. Fortunately for her, police found the unclaimed passport at a bank, the last place where she used it, and returned it before her scheduled flight the next day. Otherwise she would have had to apply for a new passport from the Polish Embassy and wait three weeks for the claim to be processed.

(Beijing Times)

(China Daily 10/19/2007 page4)