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SOME Chinese shops have stopped selling selected Japanese goods to protest Tokyo's approval of a school history book that the Chinese government says distorts historical facts and whitewashes Japanese aggression during World War II.
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- Week in brief
Shanghai
- Weather
- Tyre giant ups stakes
US Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company will relocate its Asia-Pacific headquarters from the United States to Shanghai before June as part of a major initiative to reinforce its presence in China and the Asia-Pacific Region.
- FOLLOWING a significant 43 per cent increase in the number of visitors to Australia from China in 2004, Tourism Australia (TA) kicked off a new campaign entitled “Australia, A Different Light?on March 31 in Shanghai.
The number of visitors from Asia to Australia in 2004 reached 1.4 million, up 10 per cent from 2003. Tourists from China numbered 251,300, an increase of 43 per cent over 2003. According to Tourism Australia data, visitor arrivals from China are expected to increase by 17.1 per cent per year over the next 10 years and reach 1.1 million by 2013.
- PIDS informs metro passengers
THE digital out-of-home media company, Digital Media Group Co Ltd (DMG), has announced a US$6 million round of venture financing. This investment is led by Gobi Partners, Inc (Gobi), NTT DoCoMo, Inc and Dentsu, Inc.
- Citigroup provides funds for financial IT training
THE Citigroup Foundation is providing a grant of US$630,000 over the next three years to support several new financial IT education programmes in China, Citigroup has announced.
- Brief
Low vacancy rate
- Death from candy
A SPECIAL mourning ceremony was held at the Longhua Funeral Home on March 26. More than 100 parents came to say goodbye to a 19-month-old girl who died after choking on a jellied sweet, the Oriental Morning Post reported.
- Stronger IPR drive
EXPERTS say the city should reinforce its efforts to raise people's awareness of the importance of intellectual property protection, even though it has made great progress in this field.
- Too many homes
SOURCES with the city's Women's Federation said complaints by women about their husbands' adulterous cohabitations were the most common among those received recently, the Oriental Morning Post reported.
- Fight over bun name
SHANGHAI Kebi Food Company was ordered to pay 26,000 yuan (US$3,144) in compensation and make a public apology in the local media to its competitor for having used the latter's famous steamed buns to attract franchisers. Kebi was also ordered by Shanghai No.1 Intermediate People's Court to stop violations immediately.
- Immobilized school
SINCE April 4, Song Huiyi, a student from Shanghai Xianxia Middle School, has had to say goodbye to her mobile phone because the school has forbidden all of its more than 3,000 students from using mobiles at school, the Oriental Morning Post reported. The reason for the ban is the harm resulting from the phones, according to sources with the school.
- Untaught lessons
SOME Chinese shops have stopped selling selected Japanese goods to protest Tokyo's approval of a school history book that the Chinese government says distorts historical facts and whitewashes Japanese aggression during World War II.
- Numbers of the week
400,000
- Death in the snow
ONE person died and two are still missing after an avalanche caught six travellers who were descending a mountain at Ertanggou in Northwest China's Qinghai Province on April 2.
- Tomb-Sweeping Day joins Internet age
CHINESE burnt virtual candles and incense, sent digital flowers and set fire to paper cell phones on April 5 as modern technology continued to change the way the ancient Qingming Tomb-Sweeping Day is celebrated.
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