'No worry' on imported meat
LOCAL people can enjoy their meat as usual following a reassurance from local authorities they have taken strict measures to bar Listeria bacilli, reportedly tainted food and killed seven people in France, from entering Shanghai.
Blue book predicts robust shipping
CHINA'S first shipping blue book issued yesterday predicts that the nation's shipping business will be better than last year's as it enters the WTO.
Infrastructure plans for 2000 released
THE city plans to invest 280 billion yuan ($33.8 billion) this year in con-struction to improve its infrastructure.
New taxi service: minibuses for the disabled
WITH the 5th National Games for the Disabled in mind, Shanghai Bashi Taxi Company has invested about 6 million yuan ($725,000) in purchasing 30 Pheonix model mini-buses from Zhangjiagang in East China's Jiangsu Province.
Coastal border control tightened
BORDER policemen will have stronger powers to safeguard coastal areas of the city under a new set of coastal border control regulations.
Police raid nabs men in sex blackmail scam
MEN who were caught in the act of buying sex from prostitutes when police raided a hotel in Zhangjiang Procuratorate in Pudong New Area last October, were also the victims of an elaborate plot to extort money, police said.
Bright lights, big city
CHEN Xianpeng, 24, didn't go home for Spring Festival this year, though this was the second consecutive year he has spent the festival away from his hometown.
Spring period wine vessel from Shenshan
DURING the Eastern Zhou (770-256 BC), Qin (221-206 BC), and Han (206 BC-AD 220) dynasties, bronze casting flourished among the minority peoples inhabiting the border areas of China.
Sexism at work
MEN only need apply.
Festival travellers return
By Wan Lixin
THE number of passengers travelling on trains in areas around Shanghai surged again as the Spring Festival holidays ended after the Lantern Festival last Saturday. Railway lines in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, transported more than 570,000 people daily on Sunday and Monday, an increase of more than 100,000 over the figure for Saturday, according to the Shanghai Railway Bureau which controls railway services in the areas. The bureau said trains had so far safely carried a total of 16.18 million passengers to their destinations since the Spring Festival travel season began on January 21. This was an average of over 500,000 passengers per day, or an increase of 6.38 per cent over the same period last year. To cope with the surge, Shanghai Railway Bureau added 2,980 temporary train services to the existing lines during the period. In Anhui's Fuyang City which is known for its huge population working as migrant workers in other areas, a record 36,000 passengers left the area by train on Monday alone, the fifth time the number had exceeded 30,000. During the 18 days after Spring Festival Fuyang Railway Station transported 400,000 migrants, representing a 25 per cent increase over the same period last year. Another surge occurred soon after the symbolic end of the festival on Saturday as a huge number of migrant workers poured into the station. Four temporary booking offices were added to the existing 14 booking offices. Over 100 police and 120 volunteers were mobilized to maintain order at the station.
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