Women break through final frontier

By Jane Chen and Lydia Chen | 2010-3-11

TWO pilots have been selected as China's first female taikonauts. And the pair, both transport pilots with the People's Liberation Army Air Force,...


City home prices stay on upward fast track

CHINA'S urban property prices rose the fastest in 23 months in February, the National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday. Real estate prices in 7...


Food safety put on priority list after scandals


Student sorry over a costly kiss

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Accountant pleads guilty to embezzlement

A LOCAL bank accountant pleaded guilty at a court hearing yesterday to allegedly embezzling nearly US$450,000. Although the defendant Zhang Rong r...


Pandas are eating hearty

LYING on the bamboo leaves with milk on their noses and carrots held in both hands, the 10 pandas for the 2010 World Expo at the Shanghai Zoo got up y...


City to sweeten 100th birthdays

STARTING this year, Shanghai centenarians will receive 1,000 yuan (US$143) cash, a birthday cake, a bunch of flowers and a birthday card on their 100t...


Workers faulted in crane crash


Cleaner tap water is in the pipeline - officials

Nobody sneeze!


Food safety put on priority list after scandals

CHINA would step up food-safety efforts by, in part, expanding supervision to reach more of the country's myriad small farms, a top agricultural offic...


Women break through final frontier

TWO pilots have been selected as China's first female taikonauts. And the pair, both transport pilots with the People's Liberation Army Air Force,...


Celebrity adviser loses some credibility


Call to prune National Games

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On this day in 1978, China's State Council, or the Cabinet, approved the creation of the Baosteel Gr...

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City's property market catches cold

WHILE the soaring price of housing nationwide remains one of the hottest topics among deputies at the annual session of the National People's Congress...


Rosy domestic, global pointers indicated in import-export rises

CHINA'S exports surged more than expected in February as imports continued strong growth, reflecting a robust domestic economy and signs of a global r...


Expo's world of opportunities

SHANGHAI targets faster growth in retail sales and steady foreign investment this year with the World Expo set to create a lot of new opportunities in...


Phone firm takes 20% bank stake


Executives facing new strict rules on bonuses


City home prices stay on upward fast track


Oil prices rise to settle above US$82

Reisch applies pressure to Vonn

MARIA Riesch of Germany beat Lindsey Vonn of the United States by nearly half a second in the final downhill of the season to keep the race for the ...


Gunners blast away in win vs Porto

ARSENAL striker Nicklas Bendtner atoned for a poor performance over the weekend by scoring a hat trick in a 5-0 win over FC Porto in London, England, ...


Germany eyes revenge vs England for spot in final

WORLD and Olympic champion Germany is aiming to make the field hockey World Cup final by avenging a loss to England in last year's European Cup, while...


Bahrain GP to fire up renewed interest in F1


Bonnet takes stage, Boom leads overall

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It takes a long time and lots ofanalysis to make the no-fly list

IT starts with a tip, a scrap of intelligence, a fingerprint lifted from a suspected terrorist's home. It ends when a person is forbidden to board...


US urged to set lead example in global climate change battle

THE United States, as the world's largest developed nation, should exert more efforts to tackle climate change, Xie Zhenhua, vice minister of the Nati...


Facing ax,janitor kills supervisor and himself


Praise as police shoot Bali bomber


M50 plans new M50 art hub

ONCE M50, today's renowned artists' hub along Suzhou Creek, was a magnet for starving artists who couldn't afford studio space elsewhere. It was consi...

Recording the city for 28 years

HISTORIAN and preservationist Tess Johnston has released her memoirs, "Permanently Temporary: From Berlin to Shanghai in Half a Century." Nancy Zhang ...


Humanitarian issues on show

THIS spring, Shanghai, one of the world's most dynamic financial and business centers, will host the eagerly awaited World Expo 2010. Millions of visi...


Bands rally to Haiti benefit concert


Indian delights at Bukhara

Patriot clinches successful Expo bid

Expo volunteers push wheelchairs,learn about culture - and cranky visitors

When it comes to GDP, what really counts is quality, not quantity

THE main Page 1 headline in yesterday's Oriental Morning Post said: "Housing price up 1.5 percent last year - the whole world will not buy it." Th...


Equal say for farmers, city folks

CHINA'S top legislature on Monday began to discuss granting equal representation in people's congresses to rural and urban people. A draft amendme...


Biomass power can fuel the countryside


On hauling pig swill and China's drive to improve public welfare


Blaming house bubble on mothers-in-law

5,200 Australians bare all for photo shoot

ABOUT 5,200 naked people have embraced each other on the steps of Sydney's iconic Opera House for a photo shoo...


It's snow joke: Snowmen protest Mich. tax increase


Thousands give last rites to dead whale in Vietnam

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California robbery suspect tries to become cop

AUTHORITIES in California say a man wanted for a store robbery was arrested when he showed up to take a test t...

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