|
|
| BUSINESS |
TELECOMMUNICATION operators stand to make dozens of millions of yuan in profits from the explosion in mobile messaging over the Chinese New Year seven-day holiday.
|
| |
| Nation |
- WEEK IN BRIEF
Shanghai
- New Year happy talk
TELECOMMUNICATION operators stand to make dozens of millions of yuan in profits from the explosion in mobile messaging over the Chinese New Year seven-day holiday.
- China Life protects Chinese int'l travellers
CHINA's largest life insurer, China Life Insurance Co Ltd, recently launched a new service to protect Chinese international travellers against accidents occurring when they are overseas on business, travel or study.
- Double efforts, double benefits
CAPITALAND, a listed property company in Singapore, plans to double what it has invested in China in the next few years by acquiring or merging retail malls, said Lim Ming Yan, president of Shanghai-based CapitaLand China Holdings Group.
- For the sake of safety
EPPE100 is introducing a new-concept in the distribution of protection products, building a centre in Shanghai that will distribute top-brand personal and industrial safety products.
- That sinking feeling
SHANGHAI is strictly controlling the exploitation of ground water with the aim to restrain the surface subsidence rate, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
- Office theft on rise
THEFTS are becoming more prevalent in office buildings in the city's downtown area, the Oriental Morning Post reported. Most of the thieves work inside the buildings.
- Dead pets wanted
PEOPLE with pets can stop worrying about what to do with their dead bodies.
- Civil service a popular job choice
THE most desirable occupation for young people in Shanghai is the civil service. According to the "Report on Shanghai Young People's Development?released by the research office of the Shanghai Communist Youth League, 27.3 per cent of young employed people chose the civil service as their preferred occupation, a much higher rate than any other job received, the Shanghai-based Youth Daily reported.
- Mine explosion claims 210
THE death toll from a New Year coal mine explosion in Northeast China rose to 210 by the afternoon of February 16 after seven more bodies were discovered that day.
- Numbers of the week
6.2
- For some students work comes first
MANY Beijing college students, who could not afford the trip back home to join their families for the Spring Festival holidays, chose to stay on campus to do part-time jobs, according to a recent survey conducted among a dozen universities in Beijing.
- Four-legged market
CHINA, the world's most populous nation, has about 150 million pet dogs ?about one for every nine people ?suggesting yet another promising consumers?market in the country, according to the China Animal Agriculture Association's National Kennel Club.
|
|
|
