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THE city is set to implement a new population policy beginning on April 15 which will make it slightly easier for locals to have a second child.
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- Week in brief
SHANGHAI
- Local press clips
Twisted priorities
- Weather
Weather in Shanghai this week
- Family planning shift
THE city is set to implement a new population policy beginning on April 15 which will make it slightly easier for locals to have a second child.
- Fraternal row over tombstone
A RESIDENT in Jiading District has successfully sued his two younger brothers for refusing to engrave his name on their father's tombstone.
- Free admission draws crowds
LAST Saturday saw the second free opening day in some local parks and because the free admission fell on a weekend day, more than 500,000 visitors went to the city's 24 free parks.
- Taboo keeps boats tied up
AT a time when the city is trying to get more people interested in burial at sea as the way to dispose of the remains of loved ones, many ship-renting companies are unwilling to rent their boats to Shanghai Funeral Interment Services from fear that it will bring bad luck to their businesses, the Shanghai Evening Post has reported.
- Congress to cool real estate
SHANGHAI'S Municipal People's Congress last Tuesday passed revised regulations on Real Estate Registration which ban the sale of unfinished apartments by speculators.
- Loot on show
A SPECIAL exhibition of the ill-gotten possessions of Li Zhen, a former high-level government official, has attracted over 12,000 visitors since its opening last Saturday.
- Taboo keeps boats tied up
BEIJING - The Chinese economy is expected to grow by 9 per cent this year, compared with the target of 7 per cent set by the government earlier this year.
- SHIJIAZHUANG - Chinese archaeologists say they have unearthed a 700-year-old tomb with the skeleton of an old woman inside in North China's Hebei Province.
The brick tomb, square in shape, was found some 4 metres below ground in Xuanhua County, Zhangjiakou city, sources with the local cultural heritage administration told Xinhua News Agency last Tuesday.
- Doctors told not to take hongbao
A NEWLY issued regulation by the Ministry of Health requires doctors who receive "red envelopes" (hongbao), or bribes from patients, to be deprived of their qualification for medical practice, according to a report in the Beijing Youth Daily.
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