Workers check the wreckage as a crane lies across an unfinished subway line after it toppl...
Metro mishaps kill 2, injure 6
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,...
China may take cheetah title
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...
Metro news
All public toilets free by 2010
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...
Emissions standards to be tightened up
STARTING November 1, all new cars, buses, cleaning and rubbish vehicles, mail delivery vehicles and urban construction vehicles used in the city must ...
Help for graduate entrepreneurs
More leave plan for new dads
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
Lenovo cuts jobs amid falling profit
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...
Airlines get 3-year grace on fuel surcharge tax
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...
Curbs on 'hot money' see sharp drop in property deals
China finally enters the high-tech world of 3G
National news
Complaints lead to test of hospital reform plan
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-...
Pearl River Delta set to lead pack
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...
Women detained in baby sales
Dead, diseased pigs sold for food
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).
World news
Bird flu blamed as 13-year-old dies
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...
New international force set to scupper pirates
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...
Obama talks tough on the economy
No breakthrough in gas spat
An Israeli tank advances along the Israel-Gaza border, from southern Israel yesterday. Isr...
Sports news
Mosley for more cuts, favors F1 budget caps
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...
Mauresmo sends Ivanovic packing
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...
Yao's team-high 26 sends Celtics reeling
Lang grabs hat-trick to power Canadiens past Rangers 6-3
Qatar's Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah drives his BMW during the 5th stage of the Dakar Rally bet...
Feature
New year's plays about sweet love - and dark breakup
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...
An up-close look at Taipei's Palace Museum
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...
Spoiled for choice - Coolest diversions
Stone Age water buffalo becomes new year's ox
A group of young housekeepers learn, under professional instruction, how to iron at a trai...
Opinion
Don't blame China for its savings
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 salesmen, shoppers like wolves and sheep
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...
Latin America, Middle East markets beckon Japanese investment
Good reporting takes guts, moral compass
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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Starring: Tony Leung Takeshi Kaneshiro and Hu Jun. It is the second part of the historical drama ...
Ono Lisa Live Concert
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...
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