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An Israeli tank enters the Gaza Strip from Israel as Israeli ground troops and tanks cut s...

Israeli troops split Gaza Strip as Hamas threatens a 'graveyard'

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ISRAELI ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early yesterday, cutting the coastal territory in two and surrounding its biggest city. Gaza officials said at least 31 civilians were killed in...

Hu calls for political solution

CHINA is seriously concerned about the situation in the Middle East, President Hu Jintao told United States President George W. Bush yesterday. I...

Editor's desk

The 23rd issue of e-magazine is out now!

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Metro news

Huangpu stresses dead official was not corrupt

A STATE assets management official who died last Wednesday after falling from her 20th-story apartment was "performing official duties honestly," said...

Machine to give out token coins

THE bottle recycling machine on Nanjing Road E. now gives out commemorative coins instead of real money. The machine was set up in a pedestrian m...

City to curb those ads on the move

New checks for medicine fraud

Expo Memo

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

Shoppers spend their way into 2009

SHOPPING seemed to be the most popular activity in Shanghai over the three-day New Year holiday in Shanghai - retail sales were up 35.6 percent over a...

Foreign trade rises 18%

CHINA'S foreign trade probably hit US$2.55 trillion last year, a rise of 18 percent from 2007, according to an analysis released yesterday by the Gene...

Economy to grow fast in next 3 decades

BoCom allows existing home loan owners higher discount

biz insight

Stock market suffers a year of boom and bust

By Winny Wang

National news

China's mission to Mars set for take-off

CHINA'S first mission to Mars is due to take off in October while the country's second moon probe is expected to blast into the sky a year ahead of sc...

Fame and fortune heading to China

"FAME" is coming to China. The Broadway musical about students aspiring to stardom is being customized by its American producer for a Chinese audi...

11 members of software piracy ring sent to jail

Qingchuan on the move

January 5

On this day in 1999, China established the country’s first anti-smuggling police team affiliated to Customs. The team was jointly established by the central government and the State Council, or the country’s cabinet. These police have the authority to investigate and detain suspected smugglers, and arrest smugglers across the country. The police report to Customs and the Ministry of Public Security.

World news

Earthquakes kill four in Indonesia

A SERIES of powerful earthquakes shook remote eastern Indonesia yesterday, toppling or badly damaging more than 100 buildings and leaving at least fou...

Kidnappers free foreign journalists in Somalia

SOMALI kidnappers have freed two foreign journalists abducted last November in the northern port of Bosasso, local officials said yesterday. Brito...

Nightclub fire tragedy - owner on charges

Sectarian bomber kills 38 at shrine

Daniel Drobner screams as he takes a curve with his pony "Pumba" during a sledge race in t...

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Sport news

Riesch claims 3rd straight race

GERMANY'S Maria Riesch chalked up her third slalom win in a row yesterday in Zagreb to oust American Lindsey Vonn from the top of the overall women's ...

Barca stretches unbeaten streak

BARCELONA extended its unbeaten streak to 16 matches in the Spanish league with a 3-1 home win against Mallorca on Saturday. Barcelona's 14th win ...

Al Attiyah cruises to stage one win

Murray on high after dumping Nadal

Arsenal's Johan Djourou (left) and Plymouth Argyle's Rory Fallon are in action during an F...

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Feature

Queens and kings of the silver screen

STARS of Shanghai's silver screen have always had adoring fans, and their star-struck followers loved contests for movie queen and king, writes Fang Z...

Green: The color of money (saved) and the environment

SO far China has many shades of green, mostly pale. But going really, truly, deeply green takes more than some solar panels - it takes a triangle of g...