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CHAIRMAN Lien Chan of Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Party paid homage on April 27 to the father of modern China on a historic tour of the mainland, nearly 60 years after his party left for Taiwan in 1949.
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- Shanghai
Extreme summer
- Weather
- Housing prices plunge
NEW home prices in the city took a dive last week and hit their lowest point since the beginning of the year. Analysts say further measures by the government to curb property price hikes are still possible.
- Hotels enjoy robust growth
FUELLED by the rising number of tourists and world-class events, Shanghai's hotel sector is experiencing a boom, a report from Jones Lang LaSalle shows.
- Philips plans R&D centre
PHILIPS China, the Netherlands-based eletronics giant, will pump 40 million euros (US$52 million) into an innovation centre in Shanghai, the Dutch company's third research and development centre in Asia after Singapore and India.
- Glittering events for Labour Day holiday
THE stage is set for the Jing'an Jewellery Festival to put on a dazzling display during the Labour Day holiday as it welcomes a record 150-plus exhibitors from 25 countries and regions.
- Briefs
- Demonstrators face prosecution
FORTY-THREE people involved in the April 16 anti-Japanese demonstration in Shanghai were arrested recently, the Shanghai Public Security Bureau announced April 26.
- Windstorm surprise city
A SUDDEN gale April 25 swept over the middle and north part of the city and led to one death and 17 injuries, www.eastday.com reported.
- Flexible schedule adopted for doctors
STARTING in March, the Department of Dermatology of Huashan Hospital will no longer require all doctors to be at work by
- IPR cheats sentenced
COURTS in Shanghai have passed sentence in 113 criminal cases involving intellectual property rights infringement since 2003. More than 90 per cent were related to trademark violations, especially of famous brands.
- Plastic surgery fan at it again
CHINA'S so-called first man-made beauty, Hao Lulu, came to Shanghai on April 26 to receive her 16th plastic surgery, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
- Lien takes `historic step'
CHAIRMAN Lien Chan of Taiwan's opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Party paid homage on April 27 to the father of modern China on a historic tour of the mainland, nearly 60 years after his party left for Taiwan in 1949.
- Numbers of the week
25 million
- Deadly toasts
A RECENT survey conducted by the China Road Traffic Safety Association found that Guangzhou has more drunk drivers than its two counterparts, Beijing and Shanghai.
- Search for missing miners continues
THIRTY miners trapped underground were still missing in a flooded coal mine in Jiaohe, a city in Northeast China's Jilin Province on April 27. Rescue workers were forced to suspend their search on the noon of April 26 after 10 rescuers were poisoned by carbon monoxide.
- Pathbreaking leader
SIXTY-eight-year-old Lien is a political leader with a complex family background. He grew up in Taiwan but was born in Xi'an in 1936. His ancestral home is Zhangzhou City in East China's Fujian Province. His grandfather authored the first book on Taiwan's history, and his father was a KMT official dispatched by the central government to work in Taiwan when China restored its exercise of sovereignty over the island, set free from Japan's colonial rule in 1945. At present, Lien's mother, a native of Northeast China's Liaoning Province, is living in Taiwan, but the tomb of his grandmother, who was of Taiwan origin, is located in Xi'an, a city that Lien is scheduled to visit.
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