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- Week in brief
- SIP turns to services
THE Sino-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park has worked out a five-year plan to establish a central business district (CBD) by 2010.
- HSBC maintains stake
HSBC Holdings Plc will maintain its proportional stake in the Bank of Communications after the bank's initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong, the new chairman of the British banking group said.
- Success is motivated workers
FOR the third time, the Portman Ritz-Carlton Shanghai has been named China's best employer, on the Best Employers in China 2005 list, compiled by global human resources services firm Hewitt Associates in conjunction with the 21st Century Business Herald.
- Textile fair opens
AN international textile exhibition will open at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre June 3.
- Mobile solution
QUALCOMM, a leading IT company based in the US, has joined its Chinese partner Navitone to develop its “brew?technology solution for enterprise mobile resource management (MRM) in the city. China Unicom will provide a network for the solution, which uses handsets as terminals. Qualcomm brew is a thin, efficient, open application platform developed specifically for wireless devices that facilitates wireless Internet convergence. Using the platform, companies can contact with their sales people citywide for timely feedback, raising efficiency and reduce costs.
- Dorm offer turns bad
AN act of hospitality to a woman visitor has led to Xiao Bin (an alias), a freshman at a Shanghai university, being asked to leave school. The school is sticking to its decision, which conforms to its regulations, refusing the student's appeal for a chance to recommence his studies, the Oriental Morning Post reported.
- Twins separated sucessfully
SURGEONS at Shanghai Xinhua Hospital on June 1 successfully performed an operation to separate girl twins connected from chest to belly.
- Confession to massacre
A MAN in Shanghai was prosecuted recently for killing a family of five during the Spring Festival.
- Ghastly crime
A FOUR-year-old girl was killed and dismembered by her father on May 30, the Labour Daily reported.
- More aid for children
MORE underprivileged children will get free nutritional lunches this year thanks to increasing donations to children's welfare charities, given by people from all walks of life, according to a report released recently by the Shanghai Charity Foundation (SCF).
- Foreign protectionism triggers response
CHINA decided to rescind export tariffs on 81 lines of clothing and textiles from June 1, in a bid to counteract the trade barriers imposed by Western countries against its goods.
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SURGEONS at Shanghai Xinhua Hospital on June 1 successfully performed an operation to separate girl twins connected from chest to belly.