'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.
Festival travellers return
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.
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.
New taxi service: minibuses for the disabled
By Tao Yungang
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. "Three seats in the front will be removed so that disabled people's tricycle cars can be put in," said Wu Lingzhong from the company. A special facility allows the door of the car to automatically elevate or put down the tricycles for the disabled, she said. She said the 30 minibuses would first be put in service for the games which will be held on May 6 and "would then all be put into commercial use as taxis." But the company hasn't yet decided whether to increase the number of the taxis later on or how much they will cost. "However, I am sure it will not be more than the fee charged by Zhenghua taxis," she said. Zhenghua taxis in Shanghai are also minibuses which can carry at least eight people at a time and charge a minimum of 15 yuan ($1.8) for the first three kilometres and 2 yuan ($0.24) for each kilometre after that.
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