1st step to intelligent cars
EVEN if you are a newcomer to London, Paris or New York, you can drive through the zigzagging roads or back streets without getting lost with an intelligent transportation system (ITS) in your car.
Philips builds two bases for research
PHILIPS launched two research facilities recently in Shanghai and Xi'an, capital city of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
Container shipping brisk
CHINA'S composite index for export containers was 1,153.8 points yesterday, up 1.2 per cent over last week, Liu Xiaoliang, a spokesman with the Shanghai Shipping Exchange said.
Shopping from home the next big thing
HOME-SHOPPING is expected to net 5 to 8 billion yuan ($605-967 million) in total sales in 2005 and account for about 4 per cent of total retail sales in the city.
Centre to regulate ad market
SHANGHAI now has China's first advertisement clearing house established to level the playing field in the nascent advertising market.
More input urged to fund industrial R&D
INDUSTRIAL companies have been urged to allocate more sales revenue for research and development projects to maintain Shanghai's leadership in China's industrial development.
Housing sales in 15% yearly gain
THE property market in Shanghai achieved an increase of 21.1 billion yuan ($2.6 billion) in transaction value in 1999, a 15 per cent increase over 1998, according to the latest statistics released by Shanghai Municipal Statistics Bureau.
Nortel to speed Internet services
HELP is on the way for Internet surfers here who once suffered from the slow transmission speeds and high costs resulting from the narrow bandwidth of the Internet service providers (ISPs).
Lucent opens 4th China R&D centre
LUCENT Technologies, a US-based global telecommunication company, has opened its fourth China-based research and development centre in Shanghai to develop up-to-date technology on the next generation of high-speed switching and transmission systems.
Xilinx launches Virtex-EM family
XILINX, an innovator of complete programmable logic solutions, recently announced the launch in Shanghai of its Virtex-E Extended Memory (Virtex-EM) family, the company's newest family of FPGAs (field programmable gate array) that provides greater block RAM and higher memory bandwidth for special applications.
Website set up for express delivery
DAZHONG Group last weekend set up a website for express delivery services in the hope to increase its share of the competitive logistics market.
Huashan Rd 'Butterfly' for sale
By Tracy Tao
KERRY Development (Shanghai) Co Ltd will begin sales of its new residential properties this month in Shanghai. The company has now finished the framework construction for the first phase, two buildings, of the property, Kerry Residences on Huashan Road, near the famous Dingxiang Garden (which used to be the private garden for mandarin Li Hongzhang's concubine Dingxiang). One building will be completed in October 2000 and the other next March. The two 34-storey buildings, over 43,708 square metres in total, have 236 units for sale. All apartments are designed in a "butterfly style," said a spokesperson from the company. "It means every room in every apartment will face south, and provide good aspect for the sun, with large windows in every room." P&T Architects and Engineers Ltd are the designer of the property and Belt Collins Company the designer of the "neo-classical" gardens around the residential quarters.
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