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POLICE in Central China¡¯s Hunan Province arrested an official for allegedly misappropriating 120 million yuan (US$14.5 million) of public funds to take to the gambling tables of Macao, China Business News reported.
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- Week in brief
Shanghai
- Weather
Shanghai
- Wheel watch
VEHICLE sales in Shanghai during the first month of 2005 continued to decrease following a sluggish 2004.
- Survey: China's spending grows strongly
CTR, the leading market research company in China, has announced in Shanghai that advertising expenditure in China amounted to 359.3 billion yuan (US$43.5 billion) in 2004, up 27 per cent over the previous year.
- Nestle eyes low-end ice cream market
EYEING the double-digit growth of the Chinese market, Nestle, a multinational dairy giant, is to expand its product range to reach the low-end ice cream market, currently dominated by domestic producers.
- Sporting chances
SHANGHAI Mizuno Co Ltd, a leading Japanese producer of sports gear and apparel, last weekend held a 2005 sports product show in the Super Brand Mall of Lujiazui, Pudong.
- Briefs
Flight capacity raised
- Conjoined twin will give heart to the other
SIAMESE twins from Anhui Province were sent to Shanghai East Hospital on March 1 for separation surgery, the Shanghai Youth Daily reported.
- Around the world in 80 hours
SIXTY-year-old global aviator Steve Fossett set out on a new challenge ?a solo, non-stop, non-refueled circumnavigation of the earth ?on February 28, the Shanghai Youth Daily reported. His route should take him past Shanghai.
- Decoding divorce rates
IN 2004 the city saw 123,038 new couples registered as married, while another 27,376 couples divorced, the Oriental Morning Post reported. Sources with the Shanghai Bureau of Civil Affairs said the number of divorced couples ¡°rose slightly?compared with that in 2003.
- Roof collapse injures 26
THE roof of a factory in the Songjiang District collapsed suddenly on February 28 and buried 26 workers under stone, boards and girders. No one died in the accident and apart from five people still hospitalized, all the injured are almost recovered, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
- Out of luck
POLICE in Central China¡¯s Hunan Province arrested an official for allegedly misappropriating 120 million yuan (US$14.5 million) of public funds to take to the gambling tables of Macao, China Business News reported.
- Numbers of the week
30%
- Sacred mountain to be renovated
POLICE in Southwest China¡¯s Chongqing Municipality recently unearthed a massive prostitution ring which involved female university students from the city, the Beijing News reported.
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