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They're smiles ahead ... Lei Ming, 64, displays his postcards at Shanghai's Pudong Interna...

Mainlanders take the high road to Taiwan

By Lydia Chen and Winny Wang | 2008-7-5

HUNDREDS of mainland tourists arrived in Taiwan on chartered flights yesterday for the first time in almost six decades. The inaugural weekend chartered flights marked a historic step toward warming relations across...

Two more sacked over teen-death riot

TWO more top-level county officials in southwest China's Guizhou Province were sacked yesterday following a violent protest over a teenage girl's de...

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Mayors meet in tale of two cities

SHANGHAI and Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, are looking forward to strengthening exchanges in urban development areas such as construction an...

Plans to widen platforms at two crowded Metro stations

METRO operators plan to nearly double the width of platforms at Zhangjiang and Xinzhuang stations to ease overcrowding in rush hours. Officials wi...

Families reunite across the Strait

City's first guide dogs hit trouble at Metro station

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XUHUI District service window of the Shanghai Exit-Entry A...

Cashing in

THE price of tour packages to Hong Kong will rise from this ...

Plum harvest

THE first vegetables planted during the plum rain season wen...

Business news

Baosteel shakes hands with BHP over iron ore

BAOSTEEL Group Corp has reached an agreement with miner BHP Billiton after protracted negotiations on contract prices for 2008-09 iron ore deliveries....

Deficit warning on coal prices

POWER plants in China's eastern provinces will face an overall deficit if thermal coal prices rise another 60 yuan (US$8.75) per ton, said the East ...

Rise of online bookstores forces Bertelsmann to shut

Fund firm to go overseas with venture

biz insight

Mini PCs set to boom

By Zhu Shenshen

National news

Auditors uncover fraud at China's free schools

THE free-tuition image of China's government-backed compulsory education in rural areas has been tarnished after auditors discovered widespread unauth...

Court says pilots must pay more

A COURT in Hubei Province has told 10 China Eastern Airlines pilots who resigned from the company to pay a total of 10 million yuan (US$1.46 million) ...

Hong Kong hardens its stance on corruption

Priorities listed for rebuilding

July 5

Hong Kong closed Kai Tak Airport on this day in 1998. The airport had been used for more than 73 years. All planes and vehicles were moved to the new airport overnight to ensure a smooth transition.

World news

Strike on Iran would mean war: Commander

IRAN would consider any military action against its nuclear facilities as the beginning of a war, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards said yes...

YouTube told to come clean

DISMISSING privacy concerns, a United States federal judge overseeing a US$1-billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against YouTube has ordered the ...

Emergency rescue bid for ruins of Pompeii

Online voter joke leads to felony charge

Former hostage Ingrid Betancourt is kissed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy as she arri...

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Sport news

Federer and Nadal storm into final

ROGER Federer beat Marat Safin in straight sets yesterday, leaving him one win from his sixth consecutive Wimbledon title and 13th grand slam champi...

Zheng targets doubles despite spectacular run

ZHENG Jie's sensational run to the semifinals at Wimbledon has given her the confidence to focus on her singles game, but only after her bid to defe...

Petrovic endshis reign as China coach

Hansen's flop takes edge off Kitajima clash

Felipe Massa's Ferrari is loaded on to a truck after crashing at the Silverstone race trac...

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Feature

Meandering through mellow Malu grape country

MALU grapes from Jiading District are justly famous for being delicious, sweet and juicy. Malu Town is a Shanghai oxygen bar where you can pick your...

Cultivating capital cucumbers to keep cool

SUMMER is the season for cucumbers - cool, delicious, nutritious and recommended by Chinese traditional medicine for their cooling, heat-expelling d...