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Rule change for city students

Metro | Education
2008-12-24

CHILDREN without a Shanghai residence certificate, or hukou, will be able to apply to the local education administration of their district to receive compulsory education in the city, according to proposals laid out...

Consumer rights to go before committee

Metro | Consumer rights
2008-12-11

CHANGES to regulations protecting consumer rights have been placed on the five-year legislation program (2008-12) of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai People's Congress, which deals with the economy, social progress...

Transport issues dominate online debate

Metro | Traffic
2008-11-13

THE issue of public buses and high transport fees were discussed during an online chat between citizens and members of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai People's Congress yesterday. Committee head Liu Yungeng...

Fines to soar over illegal ads

Metro | Entertainment and nightlife
2008-10-24

GRAFFITI and unauthorized advertisements may soon bring fines up to 100,000 yuan (US$14,628), according to a revised draft of the city's public sanitation regulations. The proposed rules, which came out of a...

More school fees to be scrapped

Metro | Education
2008-10-23

AS well as providing free tuition, incidentals and textbooks, Shanghai will gradually scrap other fees involved in compulsory education. At a session of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai People's Congress...

Consumers stingy over energy subsidies

Metro | Environment
2008-10-14

A NEW survey shows that consumers want government subsidies designed to save energy to go to them, rather than manufacturers or suppliers. More than half of the respondents favored the consumer-centered approach,...

City upgrades effort to boost businesses

Metro | Politics
2008-8-20

SHANGHAI plans to launch new preferential policies to help its businesses survive the unsettled financial conditions that are playing out across China and the world. The pledge came from Mayor Han Zheng yesterday...

City's new safeguards for online trading

Metro | Politics
2008-6-18

ONLINE business operators will be required to display their business licenses prominently on Web pages and provide receipts to protect consumers' rights in the fast-developing e-business, local legislators said yesterday. ...

Han re-elected as city mayor for next 5 years

Metro | Politics
2008-1-31

HAN Zheng was re-elected Shanghai's mayor and Liu Yungeng was elected the city's top law maker at the first session of the 13th Shanghai People's Congress yesterday. Han, born in April 1954, has been the city's...

Vice mayor now deputy

Metro | Politics
2008-1-9

THE Standing Committee of the Shanghai People's Congress elected Tu Guangshao, who was appointed as vice mayor last month, deputy of the SPC standing committee in Pudong New Area yesterday. The Shanghai Committee...