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ALT Disney is launching a holiday greeting event in the city by joining with Ongoing Department Store as part of its expansion strategy in the Chinese market.
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- Week in brief
Flu vaccines
- Disney gala points to future expansion
WALT Disney is launching a holiday greeting event in the city by joining with Ongoing Department Store as part of its expansion strategy in the Chinese market.
- BEA eyes broader market
BEA Systems Inc, the world's leading application infrastructure software company, opened its first technical conference - BEA eWorld China 2004 - in Shanghai on December 16. The conference, with the theme of "Future Built on BEA", was expected to share advanced technology ideas and the latest products with attendees.
- Accounting standards urges for China companies
CHINESE firms should have a clear understanding of the general principles of accounting and auditing while doing business in an international market and adopt an internationally recognized software system, said Lennart Sjoberg, sales director of Epicor Scala China.
- Business in brief
Exhibit halls expanded
- GPS and GTS improve traffic
WHICH road is the shortest to the destination? How can you avoid traffic jams? Where is the nearest available parking lot? When will the next bus come?
- Transparency smoothes relocation
A FAIR and transparent relocation approach carried out by the Yangpu District has made it possible for all 755 households in a neighbourhood on Jungong Lu to withdraw from that area two months earlier than expected.
- Metro lines on the way
THE CITY is hastening to build a better-connected and faster Metro line network.
- Appeals for justice
ZHAI Jian, a local criminal procedure lawyer, said the service he is able to give to his clients is not always equal, mainly because of time limitations imposed on him when he interviews suspects.
- Suing for a name's sake
SHANGHAI Pudong New District People's Court rejected a local woman's request to change her name to a Japanese one on December 17.
- China toughens stance on intellectual property
ANYBODY caught with more than 5,000 pirated CDs or VCDs may face three to seven years imprisonment, according to a newly announced judicial interpretation of the laws governing intellectual property rights (IPR). The new interpretation, effective December 22, has greatly lowered the bar for treating violations as crimes, Xinhua reported.
- Number of the week
1.5 million
- Chinese physicist, 82, to marry 28-year-old student
CHINESE American Nobel prize laureate Chen Ning Yang is to marry a 28-year-old Chinese woman, whom Yang called a "gift from God", the Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post reported.
- Beijing to lift limit on number of cars allowed in city
THE Beijing city government has decided not to limit the number of cars in the city in near future, but will improve management of downtown parking lots and gradually raise parking fees.
- Fire devastates market
A FIRE in Changde in Central China's Hunan Province rendered 69 people in need of hospitalization before it was subdued, after 13 hours, on December 21.
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