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Hortense de Lassee of France get into shape for a "big freeze" at Exit 6 of People's Squar...

APEC leaders pledge further actions to tackle global crisis

2008-11-23

LEADERS of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies promised yesterday to take further actions to deal with the global financial crisis. In a statement issued in Peru's capital Lima, on...

Hu presents proposals for tackling financial crisis at APEC meeting

CHINESE President Hu Jintao put forward three proposals for coping with the ongoing worldwide financial crisis at the 16th APEC economic leaders' meet...

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Metro news

Big freeze brings city square to a stop

A SMALL part of People's Square in Shanghai came to a standstill, quite literally, yesterday when hundreds of people froze on the spot in what is know...

Two workers killed in city gas pipe explosion

A GAS explosion killed two migrant workers and injured three others in Shanghai's Putuo District yesterday. The sudden explosion about 4:50am in a...

City's tallest tower rated best designed in world

NBA's 1st 2010-11 slam dunk may swish at Shanghai Expo

Expo Memo

NBA's 1st 2010-11 slam dunk may swish at Shanghai Expo

THE NBA is expected to kick off its 2010-11 season at the Sh...

China Pavilion takes shape

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Expo construction continues at good pace

CONSTRUCTION has started on a total of 1.5 million square me...

Business news

APEC leaders push for free trade despite crisis

LEADERS of 21 economies in Asia and the Americas said yesterday that the world's top economies must resist protectionist measures, no matter how punis...

Obama taps Geithner, Summers for top economic jobs

US President-elect Barack Obama has chosen seasoned policymakers Timothy Geithner and Lawrence Summers as his two top economic lieutenants to direct t...

New hurdles in auto bailout

Citigroup seeks federal support as shares dive

biz insight

Doubts over power price-cuts plan

By Fu Chenghao

National news

Large coal reserves discovered

A huge coalfield with 23 billion tons in reserve has been discovered in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to the regional ...

Graduates emerge into global crisis

FOR Jin Zhenghao, this November has been the most stressful month in his 25 years of life. A financial engineering major at Xiamen University in s...

Hu praises new level of dealing

Panda attacks intruder

November 23

On this day in 1920, Chen Duxiu, one of the founders of the Communist Party of China, began to write the Manifesto of the Communist Party of China. The manifesto includes the ideals and targets of the Party. It is the guiding principle of the party. Chen was the first Chairman and General Secretary of the party.

World news

Possibly gang-related gunfire kills 1 at Seattle-area mall

SHOTS erupted in a packed Seattle-area shopping mall yesterday after an apparent argument between a gunman and two other young men, killing one of the...

Man arrested on suspicion of killing former Japanese vice minister

A MAN who turned himself in to police Saturday night, claiming he had killed a former vice minister and his wife, was arrested in the early hours of t...

Iraq to vote on security pact by Wednesday

Health scare delays Arroyo's APEC visit

The 46-year-old suspect is transferred to Tokyo's metropolitan police after he turned hims...

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Sport news

Richardson helps short-handed Knicks hold off Wizards

QUENTIN Richardson had 34 points and 12 rebounds in one of his best games since joining New York as the short-handed Knicks held on to beat the Washin...

Troubled Arsenal beaten as top four fire blanks

WILLIAM Gallas has been assured he can stay at Arsenal following his revelation that the Gunners squad is divided. He was dropped before yesterday's 3...

Lopez evens it with Del Potro stunner

Gallas out as Wenger wields the ax

Orlando Magic guard Jameer Nelson, left, looks for an open teammate after driving past Hou...

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Feature

Screen dream team for Obama The Movie

BARACK Obama Obvious Choice: Denzel Washington Dreamy Denzel Washington is clearly the most obvious actor to take on the role of the first Afr...

Mission possible: loans to the poor

ALEX Counts found a "calling" as a young graduate that led him from the villages of Bangladesh to the boardrooms of the United States. Along the way h...