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Car Prize On Offer

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-21

COME up with a nickname for the United Kingdom Pavilion and you could win a new car and other gifts. The Website of the UK Pavilion (www.ukshanghaiexpo.com) yesterday invited people to offer ideas, take part in...

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Expo tickets prove hot items

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-21

TICKET sales for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo had gone beyond expectations to exceed 9.6 million by last week, organizers said yesterday. Since tickets went on sale on July 1, sales have accounted for about a seventh...

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Expo Main Avenue Advances

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-19

THE Expo Axis started its management-work phase yesterday. Shanghai Industrial Investment (Holding) Co Ltd is in charge. "Our services include information center, security checks, facility safeguards, customer...

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Shanghai to say it with Roses

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-19

SHANGHAI unveiled its design yesterday for the 2010 Rose Parade in Southern California on January 1. The World Expo-themed float will feature NBA superstar Yao Ming and Expo mascot Haibao. They'll be joined...

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Expo float rides in parade of roses

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-18

SHANGHAI unveiled its design today for the 2010 Rose Parade in Los Angeles on January 1. The World Expo-themed float will make its debut with NBA superstar Yao Ming and Expo mascot Haibao. Yao Ming, the ambassador...

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Souvenirs lag

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-17

THE 2010 World Expo Souvenir Management Office said sales volume of the Expo souvenirs was at nearly 1.2 billion yuan (US$171 million). The office suggested that food and paper products be added to the souvenirs. To...

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Virtual thrills in online adventure

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-17

ALTHOUGH next year's World Expo is sure to be a feast for visitors with the world's leading technology and many innovative pavilions, walking across the mammoth 5.28-square-kilometer Expo site will still be a tiring...

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Smiles wanted for Expo wall

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-16

FROM now to February, local residents and travelers can have their smiling pictures taken at major subway stations, scenic spots and some neighborhoods and schools every weekend - to be made into a wall for World Expo...

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Spotlight On Chile

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-14

A Chilean exhibition was opened to visitors yesterday at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo Exhibition Center, giving visitors an insight into the South American country's pavilion. The exhibition, at 300 Huaihai Road...

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Expo: EU unveils brainstorm

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-14

YOU will walk through a gigantic color-changing "brain cell" and then be dazzled by a spiral array of screens at the European Union Belgian Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. The screens will show visitors...

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Young adults likeliest Expo-goers: poll

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-13

PEOPLE aged 21 to 25 will constitute most of the visitors to the 2010 World Expo, according to a survey released yesterday. About 54 percent of non-locals said they care about the event, the survey also found. ...

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Health experts urge law to ban indoor smoking in the city

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-13

OFFICIALS from World Health Organization's China representative office and the state health authorities are urging Shanghai to issue a strict law banning indoor smoking throughout the city and to launch a tobacco-free...

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Chile Pavilion is topped off

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-13

VISITORS to the Chile Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo will look down a well and see, not their own reflections in the water, but scenes of Chilean life. That's because of a digital screen that will beam videos...

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City aims to recruits 1m Expo volunteers

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-13

SHANGHAI hopes to recruit one million volunteers to maintain order and work safety during the 2010 World Expo, officials said yesterday. The volunteers, including Shanghai natives and expatriates who have been...

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World Expo now online with virtual visitor site

Metro | World Expo
2009-11-13

VISITORS can now tour the 2010 World Expo Shanghai site and many of the event's pavilions with a simple mouse click from the comfort of their own homes. Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan launched the Expo Online...