China's three-ship task force escorts its first merchant vessels in the pirate-plagued wat...
UN schools among sites struck in Gaza
2009-1-7
AN Israeli bombardment hit outside a UN school where hundreds of Palestinians had sought refuge yesterday, and Palestinian medics said at least 34 people died as international outrage grew over civilian deaths in Gaza. ...
Chinese warships ready for pirates
AFTER successfully carrying out its first escort mission in pirate-plagued waters, a Chinese Navy task force is preparing to cover another 11 domestic...
Metro news
Pilots won't have to dodge skyrockets this year
GOOD news for Shanghai pyrotechnics fans: Despite a proliferation of new rules in our increasingly safety-conscious society, the legal fireworks perio...
Organic foods a growing trend
THERE are now more than 30 organic farms in Shanghai. Three years ago there were just five, officials with the Shanghai Quality Certificate Center of ...
City awards for the people who put charity first
Bookstore gets new lease of life
At Your Convenience
SIU Fung Ceramics Sanitary Ware Co, which manufactures the R...
China Pavilion to get secret treasure
CHINA is preparing a surprise for visitors to its pavilion a...
Secret 'national treasure' may highlight China Pavilion
CHINA is ready to provide a surprising exhibit in its pavili...
Business news
Yuan-settlement test to start
CHINA'S central bank said yesterday that it plans to implement a pilot program that would settle overseas trade with the Chinese currency instead of t...
Police follow former Gome chief's wife
THE wife of last year's richest man on China's mainland has been placed under police surveillance in Beijing for alleged involvement in business crime...
Early reports show bad results for listed firms
Banks mull mortgage discount
National news
19-year-old woman in Beijing dies of avian flu
A 19-YEAR-OLD Beijing woman who suffered the city's first human case of bird flu since 2003 has died, municipal health authorities said yesterday. ...
Difficult times for Guangdong
DESPITE a 10.1-percent growth in GDP last year, China's economic powerhouse of Guangdong Province has warned of belt-tightening ahead as concern mount...
Chinese epic to be recut for Western audiences
Tough job market for new graduates
January 7
On this day in 1951, China opened its first memorial museum in honor of an individual. The Shanghai Lu Xun Museum is dedicated to Lu Xun (1881-1936), a forerunner in modern Chinese literature. Located on Tian’ai Road in Hongkou District, the museum consists of his former residence and his tomb. Lu Xun was a great writer, editor, translator, critic, essayist and poet. “A Madman's Diary,” which he wrote in 1918, is regarded the first novel in modern Chinese language.
World news
Gas crisis looms as supplies shut
A GAS crisis loomed over Europe yesterday as a contract dispute between Russia and Ukraine shut off Russian natural gas supplies to six countries and ...
Bush launches massive conservation project
THE home of a giant land crab, a sunken island ringed by pink-colored coral, and equatorial waters teeming with sharks and other predators are being d...
Milky Way putting on weight as it hurtles toward oblivion
Grain plan will boost incomes of Asia's poor
Local residents push a stranded sea cow back to open water after it was grounded off the w...
Sports news
Tickets for China GP in April go on sale
THE 2009 Chinese Grand Prix is being moved up on the Formula One calender as the season's third race to avoid a clash of dates with the inaugural ATP ...
Djokovic bumped early in Brisbane
NOVAK Djokovic's preparations for the defence of his Australian Open title suffered an unexpected setback yesterday when he was knocked out of the Bri...
Lundqvist fires Rangers back on top
Super Bowl trophy no help to Giants, insists Pierce
Team Canada players pose for photographers after they defeated Sweden in the gold medal ga...
Feature
Promoting the pampas cathedral of polo
ARGENTINA, the world's center of polo, is promoting big-ticket polo real estate projects as wealthy polo fanatics are still willing to pony up for pri...
Reliving glory of archers on horseback
YABUSAME horseback archery in Japan is a bit like polo in England or rodeos in America. It dates back to ancient times when arrows in battle were more...
Strokes of genius
The ice cream man cometh
Late last year, Shaolin monks went to Kunming and took over the operational management of ...
Opinion
Incisive commentary slices and dices plastic 'surgeons'
A RECENT Reuters report about a famed plastic "surgeon" in China reminds me of my father's longtime friend in Shanghai who is also a plastic surgeon. ...
Fans flock to cinemas as the hard times roll
CHEN Xiaojun, who works at the country's largest real estate developer, China Vanke, figured getting a year-end bonus was hopeless during this market ...
Taikonauts to migrants - Faces we remember
Place your bets: Market as marvelous mechanism or crapshoot
ODDLY enough
Police foil German children's dash to Africa
THREE German children aged five, six and seven who said they were fed up with cold weather at home set off on ...
Tobacco spit leads investigators to burglary suspect
A trail of tobacco spit has led investigators to a suspect in at least five burglaries across eastern Oklahoma...
Cat has surgery to reattach face after fan-belt mishap
ME-OUCH! Veterinarians performed an unusual surgery to reattach the face of a cat they believe was injured by ...
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