City's hub poised for fast-track treatment

By Dong Zhen | 2008-7-21

THE first piece of earth was turned yesterday - and now it's the fast track all the way for construction on the Hongqiao rail station, part of the Shanghai-Beijing express that will be a major part of a massive and...

Riot farmers go home after mediation

A POWDER-KEG confrontation between rubber farmers and police that resulted in two deaths and numerous injuries in southwest China's Yunnan Province ha...

China technology: gotta dig it

THERE were high fives galore in Shanghai yesterday when the massive shield digging the Xizang Road S. Tunnel broke through to the Huangpu River's west...

Accused police killer appoints lawyers

YANG Jia, a 28-year-old Beijing native accused of murdering six policemen and injuring four, has appointed two lawyers from Shanghai Mingjiang Law Fir...

City due to sizzle through this week

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Cash to aid victims of crime

Man held over knife murder of Canadian

Risk controls intensify in loan growth check

CHINA'S commercial banks have reduced their average bad-loan ratio to 6.1 percent as the industry enhances risk controls, the nation's regulator said ...

Slump hits CITIC's profit rise

CITIC Securities Co, China's second-biggest brokerage by market value, said yesterday first-half profit growth slowed to 13.3 percent as the nation's ...

Modest rise predicted for city stocks

Firm aims to have details of 400m consumers by 2009

Gradual troop pullout as quake zones recover

PRESIDENT Hu Jintao, also chairman of China's Central Military Commission, has ordered the gradual withdrawal of troops and armed police from earthqua...

Taiwan fishing trip is a relaunch of Tao culture

THE four dozen men in loincloths stopped repeatedly to toss the new boat into the air as they carried it through their village to shore. Then they...

Plant accused of river spills

Chinese military talks open with Australia

Olmert key witness under fire

A key witness in a corruption case that threatens to end Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's political career fidgeted in his seat, grimaced and comp...

Foreign forces kill Afghan civilians, police

NATO said yesterday that its forces accidentally killed at least four civilians in eastern Afghanistan, while an official in the nation's west said fo...

Tourist beats his daughter into a coma

ETA sets off four bombs at beaches

Hamilton triumphs to seize overall lead

LEWIS Hamilton used two dramatic overtaking moves to overcome a McLaren strategy gaffe and win the German Grand Prix yesterday, seizing the lead in Fo...

Gerrans wins, Schleck in yellow

SIMON Gerrans of Australia won yesterday's 15th stage of the Tour de France and Frank Schleck of Luxembourg seized the overall race lead. Spaniard...

Scorecard error sends Wie home

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Rebuilding temples, rescuing relics

EARTHQUAKE reconstruction is underway on Sichuan's 2,000-year-old Erwang (Two Kings) Temple. The magnificent complex was a memorial to the man and his...

Life and love in the wireless world

ZHANG Minglu has spent most of his life immersed in a love affair with radio - collecting them, repairing them, adoring them. Now he is hoping to conv...

Beauty's tall tale

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A tale of air-con, GDP, green living and turds

THERE have been quite a few articles in Shanghai Daily lately about "green'' living. As a staunch supporter of the environmental movement, I feel obl...

Bravo for Po the Panda hero and Chinese ideals

WHEN it was reported years ago that Hollywood would make an animated film about a panda who could play kung fu, my friends and I were eager to know wh...

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