Around Shanghai: Nanhui explosion, Maglev demonstration and the Plum Blossom Festival

• A minibus explosion early yesterday morning in Pudong's Nanhui industrial zone killed one and injured four.
• Maglev activists have applied for approval for yet another demonstration slated for March 1 but the Public Security Bureau has rejected it. We are assuming that means the protest will go on anyway.
• A student who was accused of theft and subsequently jumped from a third-floor window has taken seven of her classmates as well as the school to court, demanding 335,000 yuan (US$47,103.49) in compensation.
• For those of you into flowers, the Plum Blossom Festival will open on Sunday on Meichuan Road in Putuo District and run for a week.

Photo from Ryan Pollack