'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.
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.
Brief
Tunnel under river WORK will soon begin on the fourth tunnel under the Huangpu River in Shanghai. The tunnel, nearly 3,000 metres long in total, will be put into operation in 2003. It will be an eight-lane tunnel built by Shanghai Urban Construction Group and Shanghai Waterway Bureau, involving a total investment of nearly 1.1 billion yuan ($132.8 million). The tunnel will start from Wusong Park in the west and end at Sancha Port in the east. Experts note that the construction process will be very complicated. New flight route SHANGHAI Airlines is preparing for regular flights from Shanghai to Phnom Penh, capital city of Cambodia. An application will be delivered to the Civil Aviation Administration of China for approval of the right to manage the air route, said Xia Benjian, an airline manager. "We predict a bright outlook for the market," Xia said. Last Friday, the airline opened its first chartered plane service from Shanghai to Phnom Penh. The route of 3,193 kilometres, takes more than four hours. "Opening direct flights will stimulate tourism between the two cities," Xia said. Markets rally CHINA has over 45.32 million investors with accounts in stock exchanges, according to Shanghai Securities News. The newspaper said 5 million stock accounts were opened over the past half a year. Strong stock market rallies last week prompted a sudden increase of new accounts at the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, reflecting a renewed confidence in the prospect of the Chinese economy, the report quoted analysts as saying. During February 14-17, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange saw 130,000 new stock investo rs, a number which is equal to 80 per cent of the total accounts opened in January. (Star-Xinhua)
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