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Mark of retail recognition

Business | Retail
2009-6-5

SHANGHAI and Beijing are among the top 50 retail strips in the world for the first time this year on high demand from domestic and overseas retailers, a leading real estate services provider said yesterday. Retail...

Off the rails

Metro | Hotel and tourism
2008-12-23

INDUSTRY insiders believe sales of tickets for sleeper bullet trains between Shanghai and Beijing will soon drop off as the journey cannot compete with flying. About 80 to 90 percent of the berths were occupied...

Get your head down for a trip to Beijing

Metro | Traffic
2008-12-17

THE express trains offering sleepers will not only run faster than normal express trains between Shanghai and Beijing but ensure a more comfortable ride because of their improved design, the Shanghai railway administration...

Trains on track

Metro | Traffic
2008-12-15

A PAIR of trains will be put into use on Sunday between Shanghai and Beijing. Another pair of trains between the two cities will come into service next Monday. The journey takes 10 hours.

New bullet trains offer sleepers

Metro | Traffic
2008-11-25

BULLET trains with sleepers and evening departures will come into service next month between Shanghai and Beijing. Four trains will be added to the Shanghai-Beijing route on December 21. The D306 sleeper will...

Patients urged to check on 'silent killer'

Metro | Health
2008-10-8

LOCAL doctors are concerned about a new finding that only 6.8 percent of hypertension patients in Shanghai and Beijing check their blood pressure every day. And about 41 percent of those with high blood pressure...

Government land funds queried

National
2008-6-5

GOVERNMENTS in 11 major cities, including Shanghai and Beijing, were found to have misused a total of 8.4 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion) from land-grant fees, the National Audit Office said yesterday. Among the...

Bullet train approved for city-Beijing link

Metro | Traffic
2007-10-11

THE high-speed rail link connecting has finally been given official approval. Travel time by rail between China's two major cities will be more than halved by 2010, from 12 hours to under five, as the new trains...

ATP to work with WTA on China tourneys

Sport | Tennis
2007-4-17

ATP has said it would try and get the women's governing body into play while scheduling events which are to be played in Shanghai and Beijing from 2009. Shanghai will host one of the eight-leg ATP Masters Series...

Maglev to run to Hangzhou, not Beijing

Metro | Traffic
2006-2-7

CHINA will not build a maglev train line between Shanghai and Beijing, but the technology will be used in a new connection from Shanghai to Hangzhou, according to Xu Kuangdi, president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.