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'Super rice' China's centerpiece exhibit at Milan World Expo

By Yang Jian | 2013-5-18

CHINA'S hybrid "super rice" will be the centerpiece exhibit in the China Pavilion at the World Expo 2015 Milan that has a theme about agriculture and ...

Another plane hoax caller arrested

POLICE has detained a suspect for making bomb threats to airports, which caused 11 flights to Shanghai to be disrupted last night. The man, surnamed ...

5,000 city users to put 4G services to the test

Couples rush to marry on special day

55 dead, 14 missing as storms hit south China

Bath for Buddha's birthday

City intends to beef up pollution fight by issuing PM2.5 forecasts

SHANGHAI will start issuing PM2.5 forecasts later this year, initially offering 24-hour predictions before going to 48-hour forecasts, Zhang Quan, dir...

Scores of museums open for free today

MORE than 100 museums and memorial halls in the city will offer free admission today and tomorrow to celebrate International Museum Day, which is toda...

New payment option for taxis

SHANGHAI taxis will accept four new payment cards, including Unionpay's Quick Pass and Shanghai City Tour Card, beginning in July. About 12,000 ca...

Man jailed for raping and killing woman

Cabbie detained

62 injured as HK train derails

A TWO-CAR train derailed on Hong Kong's light railway in the north of the city yesterday, injuring 62 people. Passengers sat dazed on the ground n...

Animators sued after boys act out burning scene

THE makers of award-winning Chinese cartoon "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" are being sued after two boys suffered severe burns acting out a scene fr...

Jailed murderer confesses to killing boy 18 years ago

A MAN in jail for murder has told police he and three others killed a boy in 1995 after they failed to sell him because he was "too smart," a newspape...

Weibo ban over rumor

Tainted rice still on sale

TODAY IN HISTORY

The country’s first long-distance carrier rocket was launched in an experiment on this day in 1980. ...

MAY

European car sales end losing streak

5,000 city users to put 4G services to the test

LONG-AWAITED 4G services, which provide mobile users with Internet access 20 to 50 times faster than 3G network, make their debut in Shanghai next mon...

State Grid buys more Australian assets

STATE Grid Corp of China has agreed to buy Australian power assets from Singapore Power Ltd, in its second purchase Down Under in just half a year as ...

U-turn on foreign firm incentives

Abe vows to bolster corporate investment

8th straight month of forex surplus

Gates retakes richest crown from Slim

Sohu eyes partner

Sina losses narrow

Design, fashion and architecture converge

2013-5-6

All albums

Spurs set up Grizzlies duel, Knicks stay alive

SLOW at the start of the series and strong at the end, the San Antonio Spurs beat the Golden State Warriors 94-82 on Thursday to clinch a 4-2 victory ...

Berdych stuns Djokovic as Serena rolls on

TOP-RANKED Novak Djokovic wasted a chance to serve out the match and was beaten 6-2, 5-7, 4-6 by sixth-seeded Czech Tomas Berdych in the Italian Open ...

Hurdler Xie believes there is life after Liu

CHINA can produce another Liu Xiang if the former Olympic 110-meter hurdles champion retires, according to another Chinese athlete who hopes to follow...

Wenger denies approach for Rooney

Ill Wiggins, Hesjedal pull out of Giro

Iraq bomb attacks kill at least 47, wound 67

TWIN explosions ripped through a crowd of Sunni worshippers in Baghdad yesterday, an attack which, combined with a second deadly bombing at a Sunni fu...

US lawmakers accuse IRS leaders of lying

US lawmakers accused leaders of the Internal Revenue Service of lying yesterday as they opened the first in a series of investigative hearings about t...

US$1m in jewelry stolen near Cannes fest

SUSPECTED thieves ripped out a small safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with about US$1 million worth of je...

Abe advisor completes secretive NK visit

Boston bombing suspect called attack retribution

Art | Stage | Fashion | Travel

Meeting with the ancients

TO most people, Luoyang in central China's Henan Province is just a transit hub en route to the Shaolin Temple on neighboring Songshan Mountain or a q...

5 free things to do in Vibrant, historic, arty Shanghai

CHINA'S biggest city and financial hub is known for designer boutiques and fine dining. Yet wallet-draining Shanghai also offers activities that cost ...

Putting the glamor back in flying

VIRGIN Atlantic's Country Manager, China, David Rose says top-notch service, in everything from movies to afternoon tea, is the key to the airline's p...

A day for sharing soybeans and forming ties

Top micro movies screened online

Calling for writers in residence

Three pianists play classics and jazz in French program

Celebrating 'mother of Chinese opera'

Oliver Stone to show up at local film festival again

US sprint hurdler has high hopes