200m cars forecast for China's roads by 2020

By Pan Xiaoyi | 2010-9-6

CHINA is expected to have 200 million cars on the road by 2020, increasing pressure on energy security and the environment, government officials said ...


Shanghai's new energy boom

SHANGHAI'S output of new energy cars will reach 30 billion yuan (US$4.41 billion) by 2012, authorities said yesterday. It will also build 25,000 c...


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Snakes eat goldfish in man's aquarium

THEY were the guests no family wants to see. An old man living on the ground floor of a residential building in Minhang District said his skin cra...


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CHINESE film director Zhang Yimou's lastest movie, "Under the Hawthorn Tree," which opens on the Chinese mainland on September 16, tells of a romance ...


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THE first Chinese expedition to Mount Tomur was politically driven: a move to declare the mountain part of China. It also confirmed Tomur as the highe...

An Olympic love story skates to the altar

A love story on ice skated to a perfect conclusion when Olympic gold medal pair Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo exchanged vows on ice on Saturday night in a ...


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ELEVEN striking sculptures of "street children" are literally made from the streets. They are forged in copper with the shapes of real manhole covers,...


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Too much focus on banks 'too big to fail'

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