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President Hu Jintao meets with former Cuban President Fidel Castro in Havana on Tuesday....

China offers aid, trade to Cubans

2008-11-20

CHINA has agreed to put off some of Cuba's debt payments and gave about US$80 million for Cuban hospital modernization and other projects during President Hu Jintao's two-day visit to the Caribbean country. Hu...

China to overhaul its dairy industry

CHINA yesterday launched a major campaign to reform its dairy industry in an attempt to restore consumer confidence, after tainted milk powder killed ...

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Metro news

Major funding marked for water cleanup plan

SHANGHAI will spend 30 billion yuan (US$4.4 billion) - half of its entire environmental budget - on controlling water pollution over the next three ye...

Eight arrested in 20m-yuan scam

CITY police have caught eight people accused of scamming more than 20 million yuan (US$2.86 million) since September, according to the Shanghai Public...

City hears drivers' grievances

Tunnel digging ready on the Bund

Expo Memo

Pandas add cute face to Expo

SHANGHAI will get cuter and cuddlier just in time for World ...

Shanghai to get panda magic in 2010

SHANGHAI will get cuter and cuddlier just in time for World ...

Expo tourism to sell 'discovery'

TOURISM officials yesterday unveiled their new slogan to att...

Business news

Shanghai's industrial output sees slowest rise

SHANGHAI'S industrial production grew 3.8 percent in October from a year ago to 199.4 billion yuan (US$29.2 billion), the slowest expansion this year,...

Investors going for gold as a safe haven

DEMAND for gold in China rose 18 percent in the third quarter as consumers turned to the precious metal as a safe haven for their cash, the World Gold...

Fan puts a time limit on economic crisis

Long-awaited 3G licenses set to be issued by January

biz insight

Doubts over power price-cuts plan

By Fu Chenghao

National news

US FDA opens agency in China

THE US Food and Drug Administration opened an office yesterday in Beijing - its first outside the United States - as part of a new global strategy to ...

Safety 'lax' in tunnel collapse

CHINA'S top work safety supervisor has criticized local governments for sloppy supervision, claiming it was one of the reasons behind the collapse of ...

Crackdown aims to protect farmers

Beijing to stem pollution without a car-buying ban

November 20

On this day in 1999, China launched Shenzhou I, the country’s first experimental spaceship for its manned space projects. The spaceship was launched in Jiuquan City, Gansu Province, and landed in central Inner Mongolia after flying for about nine hours. The Shenzhou VII spaceship finished its mission in September, 2008, after one of three Chinese taikonauts on mission made the country’s first “space walk.”

World news

EU, NATO track pirates on Delight

EUROPEAN Union and NATO coalition naval forces in the Gulf of Aden are tracking a Hong Kong-flagged ship which was hijacked en route to Iran, an offic...

Rules are changed to save cod from extinction

EUROPEAN Union fisheries ministers have agreed to changes in a plan aimed at replenishing cod stocks, so severely overfished in EU waters that scienti...

US first family trains hard to stay fit for office

Hollywood fast-tracks 3D movies worldwide

A nun with the 14th century Greek Orthodox painting of “Descent from the Cross” at the Chr...

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Sport news

'Liar Gu' admits he made up Liu story

LIU Xiang's first coach has admitted he made up a story about foreign journalists offering him 100,000 euros (US$126,833) in exchange for revealing th...

Zhang looks to make HK history

CHINESE star Zhang Lianwei will be hoping for a slice of history when he tees off at the UBS Hong Kong Open today. Zhang, with six wins on the Asi...

Move on, Maradona tells England

Boston's Pedroia snatches AL MVP award

McLaren test driver Pedro de la Rosa is seen during a testing session at the Catalonia rac...

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Feature

Classics and all that jazz by Japanese master

JAZZ piano is a unique style not only technically and soulfully superb, but also spontaneously rhythmic music infused with passion and emotion. O...

Aw, shucks - Canadian chef takes world as his oyster

WEARING a chainmail glove and wielding a custom blade, the world's champion oyster shucker will attempt to break his own record of 33 mollusks a minut...