'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.
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.
Sexism at work
MEN only need apply.
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. The Yue minorities in the south, the Ba-Shu in the west, the Yi in the southwest, and the Xiongnu in the north all developed their own bronze-casting industries. Their bronzes were deeply influenced by the Shang and Zhou traditions of the Central Plains, but they also showed unique features and styles. Animals are the motif and shape of these bronze items such as the He (wine vessel) with a dragon spout and animal mask of mid-Spring and Autumn (early 7th-early 6th century BC) and Zun (wine vessel) with drag on handles from the same period. At that time, even Shanghai was among the Chinese border areas. The Zun featured in the picture above has an inlaid "thorn pattern" dating back to the late Spring and Autumn (early 6th-476 BC) period, unearthed from Sheshan, Songjiang County, Shanghai in 1962. Shanghai Museum in the downtown People's Square has a special Ancient Chinese Bronze Gallery to display bronze artifacts of different period in ancient China. (By Zhang Qian)
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