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Chinese track superstar Liu Xiang (center) walks out of his Shanghai home with his father ...

100b yuan in lending added for key sectors

By Zhang Fengming | 2008-12-4

CHINA'S State Council yesterday issued a series of new measures to stimulate the slowing economy, including 100 billion yuan (US$14.5 billion) in additional loans from its policy banks to boost key industries. The...

City ponders smoking ban for public venues

SMOKING would be banned in all workplaces and public areas under proposals that are now being discussed by city authorities involved in drafting Shang...

Editor's desk

Shanghai Daily congratulates Leo Zhang on the birth of his son!

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Metro news

E-tolls to speed highway flow

SHANGHAI'S transport planners are hoping the kilometers-long traffic jams that sometimes clog highway toll stations will be a thing of the past. T...

Women want fetus sex check crackdown

THE Shanghai Women's Federation wants a crackdown on illegal fetus gender checks and illegal abortions after a report that the sex ratio of newborns...

Soccer star basher cut from China team

Big chill warning goes out for the city and farmers

Expo Memo

Concert to mark Expo countdown

A charity concert to mark the 500-day countdown to World Exp...

Green food expo promises to be a real feast

MORE than 3,000 kinds of pollution-free food will be display...

Big bangs to tell visitors the time

THERE will be fireworks every night at the 2010 Shanghai Exp...

Business news

Economist sees yuan's fall as wise to be more flexible

THE yuan dropped by almost touching the 0.5-percent daily trading band against the US dollar yesterday for three straight days. The yuan's recent ...

New-home sales soar in Shanghai

SALES of new homes, excluding those designated for relocation, jumped significantly in Shanghai last month - an increase of 47 percent from September ...

China levels field with fixed fee for messages

Suning aims to grow by heading north

biz insight

Appliances search for new homes

By Pan Xiaoyi

National news

Inquiry finds TV reporters jostled

AN initial investigation has found that three Belgian journalists involved in a dispute in a Chinese AIDS village in Henan Province were not attacked ...

Pros and cons for new civil servant regulations

NEW rules outlining how civil servants can be sacked have drawn criticism from the public, along with praise, for a reform that is important for China...

Teacher, student concerns on fire risks

School tragedy head sacked

December 4

On this day in 1982, China restored the original lyrics of “March of the Volunteers” to its national anthem at the 5th National People's Congress. The lyrics were written by Tian Han and the song was composed by Nie Er in 1935, when Japan attacked China. The lyrics were rewritten in 1978.

World news

After the protesters, the airport takes off

HUNDREDS of Thai army troops looked for bombs and weapons as cleaning crews buffed and mopped the floors, part of an around-the-clock effort to reopen...

Defense minister in attacks warning

INDIA'S defense minister summoned the army, navy and air force chiefs yesterday to warn them to be prepared for terror attacks from the air and the se...

NATO backing for US anti-missile plan

Tainted teething syrup kills 34 babies

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the opening of Parliament in the House o...

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Sport news

Burnley too good for young Guns

BURNLEY followed its victory over Chelsea by beating Arsenal 2-0 to reach the League Cup semifinals on Tuesday for the first time in 25 years. Der...

Six NFL players suspended

SIX National Football League players have been suspended for four games each after taking banned substances which could act as masking agents for ster...

Anderson shines as Panthers sink Caps

Miller fastest in downhill trial runs

Plaxico Burress arrives at the Manhattan Supreme Court for arraignment on Monday. Burress ...

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Feature

In the mood for Christmas

CHRISTMAS is almost upon us once again and the city rapidly is transforming into a cavalcade of lights, entertainment, fun and excitement, writes Xu W...

'Once you have Sin-ned, there's no going back'

ENTER the garden, wind along 22 meters of serpentine carpeting to arrive at the forbidden fruit, the new Sin Lounge, an explosion of opulence, decaden...