Swedes who work hard, play hard
THE Swedish Society held its first get-together in the new year on Friday evening at O'Malley's pub on Taojiang Road.
Air quality improves
SHANGHAI'S air quality took a turn for the better last week thanks to speedier winds and less frequent inversion (cooler air trapped near the earth's surface by warm air), according to the latest report from the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Centre.
Baby sun bear born on New Year
A "SUN bear" cub born on New Year's Day in Shanghai Zoo is now in good health and under the special watch of zoo keepers.
21st Century English contest
FORGET millennium celebrations. Forget Y2K bug. "Prospects for the 21st Century" is the new topic for a new era.
Ex-couple in court over fraud
HEARINGS began yesterday morning at Municipal No 1 Intermediate People's Court regarding Cai Linfen and Qiu Laifa who were suspected of being involved in a 62.96-million-yuan ($7.6 million) fraud.
Man stabs girlfriend to death
A MAN who confessed to hacking his girlfriend to death when she tried to leave him is now in police custody.
Socks appeal, or does size matter?
AN Acadian American I know has trouble with his socks. The size that is. He has a good grip on the ground, which was the polite way your maiden aunt had of saying you have very big feet. Plus he likes to walk - one of the world's best forms of exercise.
Jaywalkers arrested for violence
A TOTAL of eight jaywalkers who used violence against traffic police have been detained recently.
Man jailed for killing baby girl
A 21-YEAR-OLD man was recently arrested for strangling his infant daughter just after his girlfriend gave birth to the infant, according to Yangpu District Procuratorate.
Experts evaluate China's WTO entry
LOCAL experts seem to be pretty confident China's entry to World Trade Organization (WTO) will not have any immediate disastrous effects for Chinese banks.
From race course to People's Square
SHANGHAI was once known as a "Paradise for Adventurers." Few places could conjure up a more graphic picture of old Shanghai's decadence than the former horse race track on what is now People's Square.
Teachers wanted
LOCAL universities are going outside city limits in the search of the teaching talent needed to fuel Shanghai's economic takeoff in the new century.
Nike jerseys safe, TBT levels miniscule
By Huo Yongzhe
NIKE (Suzhou) Co, wholly-owned subsidiary of Nike Co - a global giant in the manufacture of sports products - admitted yesterday 251 of its Borussia Dortmund soccer jerseys from Europe had been made with raw materials containing TBT, but emphasized all of its other products in China are made from safe substances. The jerseys are no longer available in Chinese Nike outlets. Nike was caught off guard late last week when a German TV station reported the presence of dangerous chemical tributyltin, or TBT, in the Nike jerseys. "To date, all other products have been confirmed safe with the single exception of that batch of soccer jerseys imported from Europe in late 1998," said Dan Loeb, general manager of Nike's China Region. Tang Ying, a spokeswoman with the company, said these soccer shirts have been mainly imported for shop window displays but some of them have been sold to customers in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. Although the latest scientific test results from a lab in Germany indicate the amount of TBT in the jerseys is so miniscule as to pose no health risk to human beings, Loeb pledged Nike will continue to conduct further tests of its products and is urging anyone who has bought one of the jerseys to return it to a Nike store. He also said as the company continues down the path of localizing production, more than 90 per cent of Nike's 729,956 products in China are made by domestic manufacturers, and none pose health risks, said Tang.
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