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Premier Wen Jiabao talks to workers at Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co on Saturday. We...

Premier calls for confidence boost

2008-11-24

PREMIER Wen Jiabao called on domestic companies to boost confidence to help China cope with the global financial crisis. He made the comments during his three-day inspection of companies in Shanghai and Zhejiang Province,...

APEC is optimistic in the face of crisis

THE financial crisis threatening to plunge the world into recession can be overcome by mid-2010, Pacific Rim leaders said yesterday as they wrapped up...

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Monthly award winners unveiled

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Shanghai Business School fire tragedy

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Metro news

Industry gets boost at China tour mart

DESPITE the fall in tourists visiting China this year, the four-day China International Tour Mart, which ended yesterday in Shanghai, attracted a reco...

Graduates facing a battle for work

STUDENTS graduating in 2009 will find it harder than usual to find work because of the global financial crisis. For those not studying further, th...

City zoo and parks get pre-Expo makeovers

Neon light arch to be removed

Expo Memo

Full steam ahead for Expo

INTERNATIONAL participants in World Expo 2010 Shanghai have ...

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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Business news

Stimulus plan sparks spend up on infrastructure projects

PROVINCIAL governments on China's mainland have proposed more than 10 trillion yuan (US$1.46 trillion) in infrastructure spending, state television re...

Air China triples losses on hedging contracts

AIR China Ltd, the nation's largest international carrier, said losses on hedging contracts tripled because of wrong-way bets on fuel prices. The ...

Key index seen to be volatile

GM sees bankruptcy no cure to money woes

biz insight

China's consumer confidence the bright light in the economic gloom

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National news

Melamine tableware health risk

CHINA is expected to add a melamine test to its quality inspection of tableware after an industry expert warned that substandard tableware made with m...

Mainland's richest man investigated by police

THE richest person on China's mainland, as named by Hurun Report this year, has been under police investigation since earlier last week. According...

Olympics lifts opinion of nation

End nears for Potala Palace renovation

November 24

On this day in 1976, construction began on the Memorial Hall for Chairman Mao Zedong at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing. The hall is south of the Monument to the People's Heroes. Construction was completed on May 24, 1977. The crystal sarcophagus of Mao containing his body was moved to the hall on August 29, 1977. More than 160 million visitors from both home and abroad have visited the hall since it opened.

World news

Soldiers attempt coup at African president's home

MUTINOUS soldiers fought their way into the fortified residence of Guinea-Bissau's president in a three-hour gun battle yesterday but did not hurt the...

Rain kills 6, hits 200 villages in Philippines

A WEEK of pounding rains have flooded about 200 farming villages in the northern Philippines, leaving at least six people dead and four others missing...

UK authorities unhappy about 'happy hours'

Former Japan minister's killer confesses

Astronaut Shane Kimbrough waves to fellow spacewalker and photographer Heidemarie Stefanys...

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Sport news

Wenger backs Gallas as big guns flop in Premiership

WILLIAM Gallas has been assured he can stay at Arsenal after reveling that the Gunners squad is divided. He was dropped before Saturday's 0-3 loss at ...

Babbel takes over as coach at Stuttgart

STUTTGART fired coach Armin Veh after the Bundesliga team's 1-4 loss at Wolfsburg, and former Germany international Markus Babbel was hired yesterday ...

Lin captures HK Open in a thriller

Liu unsure of defending title

Paulie Malignaggi (left) of the United States reacts after losing to Britain’s Ricky Hatto...

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Feature

From 'little hooligans' to street culture 'hobbyists'

STREET culture once signified disturbing nonconformity and weirdness. Today it's just another lifestyle choice, but there's not a whole lotta of skati...

Tibetan kids pay price for living

AS breathtaking as Tibet's mountains might be, there is a downside, especially for children living there. The region has very few doctors to combat th...