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Unsupported health charges spoil bun sales

Metro | Health
2009-11-21

THE Shanghai Food and Drug administration has begun examining Yang's Fried Buns, a chain selling a traditional Shanghai-style snack likely to be serve...

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6-year-old critical as city posts 1st serious child case of H1N1

Metro | Food
2009-11-21

THE Shanghai Health Bureau reported the city's fourth serious case of swine flu yesterday -- and the first child to be severely stricken by the disease. The 6-year-old boy was being treated last night at the Children's...

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City tunnels open to ease traffic snarls

Metro | Traffic
2009-11-21

TWO new vehicle tunnels across the Huangpu River were both partly opened to traffic by last night in a bid to alleviate congestion along the banks in both Pudong and Puxi. Xinjian Road and Renmin Road tunnels are...

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New paper for old as green initiative grows

Metro | Environment
2009-11-21

CITY enterprises can now trade waste paper for new paper as the clean-and-green drive continues. The Shanghai Greenery Administrative Bureau started the paper-exchange campaign to promote environmental protection,...

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Vegetable-aquatic mix takes patent center stage

Metro
2009-11-21

AN artificial cultivation complex that breeds organic vegetables and aquatic products attracted most attention at the opening ceremony of the annual Shanghai Patent Week yesterday. Before the visitors was a big...

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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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Whale to live on in museum

Metro
2009-11-20

FISHERY experts will start to dissect the remains of a stranded whale this afternoon. Shanghai Ocean University plans to use the skin and bones to make two specimens for display within the next 18 months. The...

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Green subsidies for old cell phones

Metro
2009-11-20

SHANGHAI phone buyers can now do their bit for the environment when they replace their old mobiles. A leading home appliance retailer has expanded a government subsidy scheme to mobile phones on a trial...

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Fake visa shatters student's dream

Metro
2009-11-20

A SHANGHAI student ready to board a flight to study in the United States yesterday had his dream shattered after customs officers at Pudong International Airport found that his US visa was fake. The man, surnamed...

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Everyday lives in focus at China Pavilion

Metro
2009-11-20

CHINESE residents are invited to record slices of their everyday lives on video to be shown on huge screens at China's national pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. Two hundred clips will be selected for...

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Early snow dusts Shanghai, doesn't stay around long

Metro | Weather
2009-11-20

SOME Shanghai residents couldn't be blamed for thinking that it was beginning to look a little like Christmas yesterday morning. Early commuters enjoyed the sight of a brief snowfall on their way to work. Some...

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Tire tracks lead cops to hit-run driver

Metro | Traffic
2009-11-20

A truck driver has been arrested in the hit-and-run that killed a 70-year-old woman in Hongkou District this week, police said yesterday. In events that read like a real-life version of the American TV show "CSI,"...

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Quickie buildings to be razed

Metro | Hotel and tourism
2009-11-20

ALL illegal structures hastily erected on the future Disneyland site will be razed by the end of this month, officials said yesterday. Some residents of a local village slated to be seized for Shanghai's Disneyland...

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Court clears set-up Samaritan

Metro | Traffic
2009-11-20

THE white-collar worker who picked up a seeming hitchhiker in distress, only to be roughed up and fined for allegedly driving an illegal taxi, got his vindication in district court yesterday. He also got the award...

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City: Waters are cleaner

Metro | Environment
2009-11-20

THE city is well on its way toward fulfilling a three-year water-purifying plan that will produce cleaner rivers and lakes by the end of next year, officials from local water bureau said yesterday. The authorities...

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2 breakdowns briefly slow Metro am rush

Metro | Traffic
2009-11-20

TWO city Metro lines suffered separate breakdowns during morning rush hour yesterday, causing delays for thousands of commuters. Officials of the Metro operator said they steered would-be riders away from the affected...

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IV-standard gas looks OK to inspectors

Metro | Traffic
2009-11-20

THOSE problems with Shanghai's new IV-standard gasoline that some drivers are complaining about? The quality-control authorities don't see them. Officials from the Shanghai Bureau of Quality and Technical...

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Court rules that fine was illegal entrapment

Metro | Courts
2009-11-19

A WHITE-COLLAR worker is celebrating after winning a lawsuit accusing Minhang District of using entrapment to catch illegal cabbies yesterday. The district court ruled that the traffic law enforcement team should...

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First snow sprinkles city

Metro | Weather
2009-11-19

SNOW fell along with drizzle early this morning in parts of Shanghai for the first time this winter. However, the cold front is passing so temperatures will rise from today's four to nine degrees Celsius. Weekend...