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Metro
FOREIGNERS and overseas Chinese who hold a Shanghai residence card or stay in a work contract with a Shanghai employer can now enjoy the city's social security and benefits, just as their local counterparts do. ...
AUTUMN will seem to make a comeback this week as Shanghai warms up with temperatures over 10 degrees Celsius, the weatherman said yesterday. The high could even reach 18 degrees. The Shanghai Meteorological...
XIONG Xiuling, 45, has been a farmer on Chongming Island since she was very young. What the Changjiang Tunnel-Bridge, operating since October 31, brought to her and her family has been both sweet and bitter. ...
WIN a prize for your balcony. Shanghai environmental authorities launched a "Most Beautiful Balcony" competition yesterday, encouraging residents to decorate their houses with more green. The competition will...
World
A SPACEWALKING astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and blazed through his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station. Expectant father Randolph Bresnik and Michael Foreman were...
THE shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance in 1983 has been auctioned off for US$350,000 -- plus tax. Winning bidder Hoffman Ma of Hong Kong will pay US$420,000,...
RESCUERS saved more than 240 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank yesterday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least 29 people have died and 17 are missing, officials said. Search operations...
ENGINEERS and emergency workers checked hundreds of bridges for damage yesterday, as five collapsed and another cracked dangerously while heavy rain lashed northwest England. Calva Bridge in Workington, Cumbria,...
National
THE death toll from China's latest coal-mine disaster reached 92 yesterday, and hopes dimmed that more survivors would emerge after a gas blast at a colliery in the nation's far northeast. A total of 528 workers...
A WIDE-RANGING study of middle school students across China's mainland involving online friendships has thrown up some alarming statistics. For example, only 6 percent of middle school students said making online...
AUTHORITIES of Fuxin City in Liaoning Province have decided to investigate an official even though police believe claims of sex and drug abuse against him are false. Yu Yang, deputy director of the Communist Party...
TWO Chinese sailors wounded in a battle against Somalia pirates 11 days ago have returned home to a hero's welcome in southern China's Guangdong Province. Hong Xianwen and Yan Bo, of the China Ocean Shipping...
Business
HUDONG-ZHONGHUA Shipbuilding (Group) Co Ltd yesterday launched a new Panamax bulk carrier that will be delivered to Italy's Rizzo-Bottiglieri-De Carlini Armatori SpA Shipping Co, which has ordered seven other vessels...
HIGH savings and weak consumption were still the main structural problems for China's economy, and the country needed to craft a national plan to boost consumption and adjust the economic structure, an expert has...
APPLE Inc's iPhone is coming to South Korea this week, KT Corp announced yesterday, bringing the iconic communications device to one of the world's most sophisticated mobile phone markets. The telco began accepting...
THE output value of China's food industry is expected to grow 16.7 percent year on year, according to the China National Food Industry Association. Liu Zhi, CNFIA's executive vice chairman, told the Seventh China...
Sport
CHINA'S Lin 'Super' Dan grabbed his fourth Super Series title of the season with an easy victory over Denmark's Jan Jorgensen in the final of the US$250,000 China Open in Shanghai yesterday. China also won...
CHELSEA trounced Wolverhampton Wanderers 4-0 to stay five points clear of champion Manchester United at the top of the English Premier League on Saturday. United kept pace with the leader by beating Everton...
BARCELONA coach Pep Guardiola said he was concerned over an injury to Lionel Messi that forced the Argentine forward to be substituted during the team's 1-1 La Liga draw at Athletic Bilbao on Saturday. Messi...
LEE Westwood achieved a European Tour double yesterday by winning the season-ending Dubai World Championship and the European Tour money-list title. An imperious eight-under-par 64 gave him a final 23-under...
Feature
TO tai chi master Guo Huaisheng, music floats from a guqin (a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family) like mist while melodies run from a piano like rainfall. "A great pianist can...
ONE of world golf's champion players and course designers, Gary Player has a heart of gold when it comes to using his fame to make a better life for the disadvantaged around the world. He tells Nancy Zhang how his...
COLM Toibin is a multi-award winning author and journalist from Enniscorthy, Ireland. He has written 20 works of fiction and non-fiction exploring Irish society, living abroad, and identity, amongst other themes. ...
IT may not merit the adjective in its title, yet the animated yarn "Fantastic Mr Fox" offers some of the most goofy fun you'll have at a theater this season. With George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray leading...
Opinion
TO tai chi master Guo Huaisheng, music floats from a guqin (a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family) like mist while melodies run from a piano like rainfall. "A great pianist can...
ONE of world golf's champion players and course designers, Gary Player has a heart of gold when it comes to using his fame to make a better life for the disadvantaged around the world. He tells Nancy Zhang how his...
COLM Toibin is a multi-award winning author and journalist from Enniscorthy, Ireland. He has written 20 works of fiction and non-fiction exploring Irish society, living abroad, and identity, amongst other themes. ...
IT may not merit the adjective in its title, yet the animated yarn "Fantastic Mr Fox" offers some of the most goofy fun you'll have at a theater this season. With George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray leading...
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