McDonald's and Hualian link up
MCDONALD'S has launched a joint venture with Hualian Group, one of the largest supermarket chains in the city.
DuPont to invest more in China
DUPONT will continue to expand its investment in Shanghai if China enters the World Trade Organization.
Russia to sail China-US route
CONTAINER shipping is booming despite the fact that this is traditionally the slack season.
Chevrolet Blazer on the trail
GENERAL Motors (GM) is on time and on target in hiring and training a work force as it prepares to roll off its first Chevrolet Blazer in mid-December.
Dragon Head founds Chinese textiles website
"THE marriage of traditional industry and advanced commercial methods is perfect for the new century," Vice-Mayor Jiang Yiren said last week.
New Nestle bottled water plant built
COMPLETION of the first phase expansion of Nestle Sources Shanghai Ltd plant, which now boasts an annual production capacity of 100 million bottles of water, was announced last week.
ECnet to grow from booming e-business
ECnet Co, from California, a provider of business to business e-commerce enabler for the high-tech manufacturing community, is upbeat on its expansion into the local market.
Xujiahui offers lots of advantages
BOTH local Shanghainese and foreigners see Xujiahui in the city's southwest Xuhui District as one of Shanghai's best residential areas.
On-line gene data bank a rich research resource
GENETIC researchers across China will for the first time have access to a database of 40 billion genes from May when a new on-line data bank opens in Shanghai.
Discovering quiet luxury downtown
RESIDENTS in Shanghai can see large stocks of high quality properties in the suburbs, but new, high quality ones in the downtown area seem hard to find.
It's official, Win2000 now on local market
By Ada King
MICROSOFT officially unveiled last Thursday its landmark generation operating system - Windows 2000 Chinese version - in the local market despite the fact that it has already been selling well for almost one month. The firm has already launched the giant multilingual operating system in Beijing on March 20 and in the US market one month ago. "Microsoft will live up to its promise to provide the most powerful and stable operating system to our customers," said Jack Gao, president of Microsoft (China) Co at the inauguration ceremony. The newly appointed president is a native Chinese graduated from Harbin University of Science and Technology and furthered his studies in the United States, took his current post in January. "The new software is targeted at providing a whole package of solutions to business Internet, compared with its predecessors Win95 and Win98," said Gao. Over 1 million copies of the software have been sold worldwide in a month since its debut in the United States. However, local experts lower the selling forecast, claiming the software is expensive for local customers and that it has a number of possible bugs. The milestone software is priced at 1,700 yuan ($205.31) for Windows 2000 Professional, 8,800 yuan ($1,062) for Windows 2000 Server and 39,000 yuan ($4,710) for Windows 2000 Advanced Server in the local market. Gao said the Chinese version of the software has a series of revisions and improvements through local research and development. The version has been installed in most of the big name PCs, including IBM, Compaq, HP, Dell, Toshiba, Legend, Haier and Founder.
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