Kids compete in cross-Straits drawing
SIX-year-old Wu Ye, who has a pencil behind her right ear, is attentively drawing the Oriental Pearl TV Tower in Pudong's riverside park along the east bank of Huangpu River.
Diamond plan
DIAMONDS, which have graced the necklaces of the late Princess Diana, US First Lady Hillary Clinton and Kate Winslet in blockbuster film "Titanic," are proving increasingly popular with China's consumers as earnings rise, especially in Shanghai.
Shipping soup in Shanghai
LAST week was a tough week to get through any year. You must, like Caesar, beware the Ides of March (15) and either proclaim your ethnic origins or become honourary Irish for a day on St Patrick's Day (17). In Shanghai, you also have to cope with the fickle March weather.
Chess master makes first move on-line
JOINTLY sponsored by Shanghai Chess Association and Shanghai Lotof Network Information Technology Co Ltd, a long-running chess match at www.lotof.com on the web was kicked off on Saturday.
Tourism development at top of agenda
SHANGHAI plans to transform itself into an international tourist metropolis by 2015, according to Zhou Muyao, vice-mayor of Shanghai. Zhou was speaking at the city's first tourism working conference which closed on Sunday.
Women seek access to legal consultation
A 50-YEAR-OLD woman says tearfully she has sued for divorce four times over the past nine years, but she has been denied each time over property disputes.
Controversy over keeping city wall
SHANGHAI city wall was built in a matter of months in 1553 to repel Japanese pirates, but it took more than 10 years to demolish it.
Students broaden horizons overseas
PHOTOGRAPHS of Chinese high-fliers who studied in Britain adorned the entrance to the British Education Exhibition 2000, held two weeks ago in Shanghai.
Rush to wed breeds crime
THE proverb "marry in haste repent at leisure" took on a whole new meaning for two Shanghai residents recently.
Robbers ring up call-girls
A BOOK described as a "goldmine" by a debtor, because it listed the telephone numbers of call-girls, brought two men suspected of robbing four prostitutes before the Yangpu District Procuratorate recently.
Court fines nose biter $348
HONGKOU District Court has ordered a 38-year-old man named Liu who bit a bus driver's nose with such force that it required seven stitches to close the wound to pay 2,884 yuan ($348) in medical expenses and damages.
Campaign to prevent polio comeback
By Tracy Tao
AN incidence of polio (also known as infantile paralysis) in October in Northwest China's Qinghai Province has prompted a warning from experts that children from abroad must be vaccinated against the disease either before or soon after they come to Shanghai. "Polio has been all but eliminated since 1994 in China," said a doctor from the Municipal Bureau of Health who gave only his surname - Feng. "In foreign countries, it is also very rare now." However, the Qinghai case has proved that there remain groups of people in some areas of the country who have not been vaccinated. "The Qinghai virus has been proved to have originated in a country in southern Asia," he said, refusing to name the country. The Ministry of Health has launched a campaign to vaccinate children in high-risk areas to eliminate the disease by the end of the year 2000. In Shanghai, two large-scale campaigns will be launched to vaccinate newborn babies and children up to the age of six of non-Shanghai origin and Shanghai children who have been left unvaccinated for some reason, said Feng. They will be given the treatment orally rather than as an injection. "Besides travelling medical teams in neighbourhoods where migrant people are concentrated, doctors will have vaccination sites established during March 20-25 and April 20-25 in schools opened for migrant workers, railway stations, airports, long-distance bus stations and boat stations," said Feng. "Most expatriates' children have had their vaccinations and should be protected from the disease," he added.
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