By Dong Hui | 2009-1-9
ONE worker died and six were severely injured when they were stranded underground during a blaze that swept through a Metro Line 11 construction site in Shanghai's Putuo District yesterday morning. Hours before,...
THE cheetah may have originated in the Old World - perhaps even China - and not in the Americas, according to a researcher at the Shanghai Science and...
ALL the city's public toilets will be free of charge by 2010, the city government announced yesterday at its weekly press conference. Three distri...
STARTING November 1, all new cars, buses, cleaning and rubbish vehicles, mail delivery vehicles and urban construction vehicles used in the city must ...
SIU Fung Ceramics Sanitary Ware Co, which manufactures the R...
CHINA is preparing a surprise for visitors to its pavilion a...
CHINA is ready to provide a surprising exhibit in its pavili...
LENOVO Group Ltd, China's biggest personal-computer maker, said yesterday that it will cut about 11 percent of its workforce, as the global economic d...
CHINESE airlines will be exempted from a tax imposed on fuel surcharges on domestic flights for three years as the government moves to protect the dom...
CHINA will launch a pilot program to reform its hospitals in response to growing public criticism over soaring medical fees, lack of access to health-...
THE Pearl River Delta - at the vanguard of Chinese economic reforms that began in 1978 - will again take the lead as the country opens its markets wid...
January 9
On this day in 1972, Liang Sicheng, recognized as the “Father of Chinese Architecture,” died in Beijing. He was 71. Liang is the author of China's first history on Chinese architecture and founder of the Architecture Department of Northeast University in 1928 and Tsinghua University in 1946. He was the Chinese representative on the design board that designed the United Nations headquarters in New York. His father was Liang Qichao, one of the most well-known Chinese thinkers in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
THE sister of Vietnam's first confirmed bird flu patient of the year died with similar symptoms last week and the director of the hospital where she w...
A NEW international force to battle pirates off the Somali coast is being formed under American command in a bid to focus more military resources to p...
FORMULA One's governing body has urged teams to build on cost-cutting measures for this year by taking further steps for the future, including possibl...
FORMER world No. 1 Amelie Mauresmo upset top seed Ana Ivanovic 6-3, 6-2 to advance to the semifinals of the Brisbane International yesterday. Maur...
AS usual, the stage is stuffed with comedies and love stories at this time of year. For a change, director Yang Xinwui also offers "Paper and Fire" ab...
SOME of China's greatest treasures reside in the Palace Museum in Taipei, the subject of a 12-part documentary that shows fabulous relics and reenacts...
A STRANGE view has emerged recently from some US government and economic circles, which says high savings in emerging markets such as China and oil-ex...
IT should have been a good year-end sales season for Huang Ping's IT products shop in Zhongguancun, Beijing's Silicon Valley. But Huang didn't se...
THREE German children aged five, six and seven who said they were fed up with cold weather at home set off on ...
A trail of tobacco spit has led investigators to a suspect in at least five burglaries across eastern Oklahoma...
ME-OUCH! Veterinarians performed an unusual surgery to reattach the face of a cat they believe was injured by ...
2009-1-8 ~ 2009-1-10 | IKEA
2009-1-7 ~ 2009-1-23 | Huijin Department Store
2009-1-8 ~ 2009-1-11 | Westgate Mall
2009-1-4 ~ 2009-1-15 | FOXTOWN (Lingling Road)
2009-1-9 ~ 2009-1-20 | Paris Spring (Zhongshan Park outlet)
2009-1-7--2009-1-31
Broadband International Cineplex
Shanghai Stellar Cinema City
Hengshan Cinema
Starring: Tony Leung Takeshi Kaneshiro and Hu Jun. It is the second part of the historical drama ...
2009-1-16
Shanghai Grand Stage
Ono Lisa will come for Shanghai Jazz Week, which is a pitty for fans of Norah Jones as she u...