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City honors expats for high-value contributions

Metro | Expat association and community
2009-9-30

CITY government yesterday presented its top expatriate honors - the Magnolia Gold Award and Honorary Citizen of Shanghai title - to 16 foreigners in recognition of their contributions to social and economic development....

City hails 60 model foreigners

Metro
2009-9-9

SIXTY foreigners have been honored in this year's Shanghai Magnolia Silver Awards for making outstanding contributions to the city's social and economic development. The Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office announced...

Flowering of Chinese stage talent

Feature | Stage
2009-4-3

TV personality and opera singer Bai Yansheng is well known for his quick wit, knowledge and versatility in hosting his weekly interview with traditional Chinese opera singers on CCTV. Bai is also a regular MC for...

A grateful city honors outstanding foreigners

Metro | Expat association and community
2008-9-29

TEN foreigners were presented with the Magnolia Gold Award for their outstanding contributions to the city yesterday. Mayor Han Zheng presented them with a framed certificate and a medal at the city hall. The...

City honors a bunch of truly special foreigners

Metro | Expat association and community
2008-9-19

A TOTAL of 38 foreigners were yesterday presented with the Magnolia Award for outstanding contributions to the city. Li Mingjun, director-general of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, presented a framed certificate...

Mississippi casino bus overturns, killing 3

World
2008-8-11

A CASINO bus full of tourists overturned in northwestern Mississippi yesterday, killing three people and injuring several others. The bus belonged to Harrah's Tunica and was carrying 43 people when it flipped...

Oil spill jams 200 ships along Mississippi

World
2008-7-26

ABOUT 200 ships were stacked up yesterday as a bottleneck grew along the Mississippi River caused by a massive spill of heavy fuel oil at New Orleans in the United States. Crews had sopped up about 35,960 liters...

Tortured neighbors seek revenge

World
2008-6-28

JUST outside his bedroom window, beyond the chain-link fence that surrounds his next-door neighbor's yard, sit the reasons David Adams says he can't sleep: two bushy-tailed dogs that bark and howl all night. The...

Residents battle flood waters along Mississippi

World
2008-6-23

AMID the battle to hold back the swollen Mississippi River, some American towns got an unwelcome surprise as river levels rose higher than projected at the weekend. Recent levee breaks north of Canton had allowed...

Mississippi floodwaters swamp towns, farms

World
2008-6-22

THE Mississippi River's crest rolled downstream on Friday, submerging small towns and some of the US Midwest's most fertile farm fields with a relentless flow as people and industries struggled to cope with the...