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Driven to the corner, a robber in Shaoyang City, central China’s Hunan Province, recently had no choice but rushed into the home of a policeman, where he was caught on the spot.

At 10 ：00 pm on that day, a woman was robbed by a man of her handbag while walking on the sidewalk on Anqing Street in Shaoyang, central China’s Hunan Province.

The woman shouted at the top of her voice ： “Stop the robber！” Xie, a taxi driver nearby, rode on his motorcycle and chased the robber.

The robber escaped and in a hurry ran into a dead lane. Seeing that he had no way to go, the robber hid himself on the second floor of a building. In order not to be spotted by Xie, the robber jumped into a courtyard on the first floor belonging to a policeman by the name of Hu Nanchun.

Hu was watching TV then. Upon hearing the sound, Hu caught the robber and marched him to a nearby police station.

British police on Thursday charged a former butler of the late Princess Diana with the theft of 342 items from her former Kensington Palace residence.
Paul Burrell, 42, from Farndon in Cheshire, northwest England, faces three charges of theft, Scotland Yard said.
The charges relate to a total of 342 items reportedly worth 5 million pounds (7 million U.S. dollars), which were said to have been stolen on or before June 30 1998 at Kensington Palace, her former London home.
Burrell has been on bail since he was arrested on suspicion of theft in January.
He was charged after answering bail at West End Central police station in London on Thursday. He is due to appear on bail at Bow Street Magistrates Court on Friday.
Burrell has denied any impropriety and has maintained the items were given to him by his employer.
Among the six items allegedly stolen from the Prince of Wales were an Indiana Jones bullwhip and a white metal pepper grinder.
Hundreds of items allegedly stolen from the estate of the Princess of Wales include ornaments, letters, hats, handbags, and photographs.
Several CDs and vinyl records were also on the list issued by the Metropolitan Police, including ones by Abba, Tina Turner, Chris de Burgh, Michael Jackson, Supertramp and Leo Sayer.
Burrell, who is married with two children, joined the Wales’s staff in 1986 and he stayed with the princess after the couples’ divorce in 1996.
He became the princess’s friend and confidant and was famously known by her as “my rock” and “the only man I can trust.”
When she was killed in a car crash in August 1997 he flew to France to help prepare her body before Prince Charles and her sisters arrived.
In September 1997, he was awarded the Royal Victorian Medal by the Queen in recognition of his service to the Royal Family and the Princess of Wales.
He became fund-raising manager for the Diana, Princess of Wales, Memorial Fund but was made redundant in 1998

A Philippine cabinet has agreed to reduce the tariff on 320 items to 5 percent under Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) scheme.
This move of the Cabinet Committee on Tariffs and Related Matters will make the country 85 percent compliant with its commitment to the Common Effective Preferential Tariff of ASEAN, a Philippine Star on-line news report said Friday.
A proposal to reduce to zero the tariff on all capital equipment and raw material that are not locally available is likely to be approved soon, Trade Secretary Manuel Roxas II was quoted as saying.
By the year 2001, the tariff on 90 percent of all products traded within the region should already have been reduced to 5 percent and further up to zero by 2002, the report said.
The ASEAN tariff agreement covered all products traded within the region, Roxas explained. As of 2000, the Philippines’ compliance with its commitment was at 70 percent.
Roxas said the Philippines was about a year late in its commitment, but the inclusion of the 320 tariff lines would bring it closer to the schedule, liberalizing about 290 industrial products such as soap, handbags, belts and textiles.

It was 4:30 pm, the beginning of daily rush hours in this Southeast Asian metropolitan. The world-notorious traffic here again proved itself as cars, buses, pick-ups, trucks and motorcycles got stuck to each other in every blocks. A cosy, safe and uncrowded place seemed to be found nowhere except in a kind of pink-signed bus.
A foreign new-comer annoyed by chaotic surroundings attempted to jump aboard to the fresh-looking carriage but was denied politely by the conductor: Sorry, it is the Lady Bus, not for man.
Since the world’s first launch of the female-only bus service in the Thai capital on May 30 last year, millions of local women commuters enjoyed unprecedented feelings of safety and convenience, without paying a single more penny.
“Our intention of setting up the Lady Bus is to protect the women from pickpockets and sex pests, especially for the low-paid working class females who usually take bus back home after work,” said Viroj Nilayodhin, the public-relation chief of the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA), the state-owned bus agency which operated the special service.
He told Xinhua during a recent interview that women comprised the majority of the three million daily bus commuters in Bangkok and often fell victims of theft and sexual harassment on the normally-crowded buses, which arose social concerns.
BMTA, which runs over 5,000 buses in the city’s 100 routes, had received plenty of complaints from female sufferers and critics for such incidents. Social pressure and an idea inspired from Japan’s Lady Subway Train, finally developed into the unique operation of Lady Bus, which is conducted between 4 pm to 9 pm everyday except public holidays.
“During the past, I had been uneasy every time boarding a filled-up bus, often worried about my handbag which had been once cut through by a bus pickpocket. It was really a hard time.” Pornpon Suthiklud, a middle-aged female bureaucrat told Xinhua after she mounted on a Lady Bus.
However, nowadays when she waited at the bus stop, the pink sign of Lady Bus assured her away from any threats and inconvenience. Aside from safety, it is cheap– a such bus trip costs merely 18 baht (40 U.S. cents) at most– and it is roomy for there are fewer customers than in a normal bus.
“It is like a mobile Utopia for female,” she claimed.
Pretty young girls like Waralee Atchareeyasonthon used to have another worry– the sexual attacks from lady-killers who frequented the crowed buses as their dirty playground.
“I had been harassed on bus every several months and most of my female friends had the same experiences. So sometimes I had to ask a boy classmate to accompany me on the bus, ” recalled the university student.
“Now with the advent of Lady Bus, I feel free to go back home alone.”
For a first-time Lady Bus passenger, 30-year-old primary school teacher Siriwan, the Lady Bus turned out to be an all but total satisfaction. “It is so good, even better than my imagination.”
Informed of the Lady Bus from TV reports, she decided to try it to avoid an early theft accident happened to her on a common bus.
“I will recommend this kind of bus to all my female relatives and friends,” she told Xinhua.
Male Bangkokians also applauded the service. Wassan, the Lady Bus’s male conductor, said men citizens should never feel jealous about the special treat for women. “Due to special situation with women, they ought to be better-protected and it is really a positive sign of social progress.”
In fact, to reduce the trouble bought to male passengers by the Lady Bus, BMTA devised a double-car mechanism, in which every Lady Bus is followed by a common one. “So male friends or relatives of women in Lady Bus will not be separated faraway from their ladies, ” said Viroj.
Receiving universal welcomes by the female, the unique bus service is also paying off social dividends. After its launch, the frequent reports about women being attacked on bus has nearly diminished.
“The Lady Bus shows that people are realizing that women are important members of the society……and are thinking about women ’s needs and requirements,” said local female rights activist Supatra, who had led the Thai delegation to last year’s United Nations women conference in New York.
After the successful operation during the first 15 months of Lady Bus, now BMTA plans to expand the service from 10 bus routes to 25 routes in the metropolitan, covering all the office and business districts.
At the same time BMTA pledged that its policy towards Lady Bus will never change even the service, with less passengers than any common bus and same prices, are running in deficits.
“Our goal in this service is to enhance women’s welfare and for the benefits of the whole society. We can cover the losses in Lady Bus with profits from other services,” said Viroj at the state enterprise’s headquarters.
Finally, Xinhua reporters found out that his words was already echoed by the striking slogan printed in each Lady Bus: we provide good service for ladies from the bottom of our heart.