Free flights to help orphans' treatment in US
FIVE orphaned Chinese children aged between one and four years old were sent to the United States for medical treatment on Saturday aboard an inaugural Shanghai-Detroit direct flight launched by Northwest Airlines.
More flights to take off from Pudong airport soon
MORE flights will take off from Pudong International Airport when Hongqiao Airport starts its refurbishment in mid-May.
Air pollution declined last week
SHANGHAI'S air quality improved last week from the previous week, according to a report from the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Centre.
Exploiting riches of the sea
FURTHER exploitation of oil and gas fields in the East China Sea is expected to provide more natural gas for cooking.
Law staff work hard to flight IPR violations
ALTHOUGH for most Chinese, intellectual property rights (IPR) is a fairly recent concept, Xie Chen, vice-president of the IPR Protection Tribunal at Municipal No 2 Intermediate People's Court, and his seven colleagues handle an average of 120 to 150 cases of IPR violations a year.
Help on the way
IT'S APRIL 5 and promptly at 9:30 am, a police car drives up to the gates of the Shanghai Juvenile Supervision and Education Centre. Three teenagers get out of the car and go through the iron gates.
It seems to come back to the future!
I COULDN'T believe my eyes when I arrived in Shanghai a month ago. I should explain my memories of the city were five years old!
Murderers of taxi driver given death sentence
TWO men who tortured a Songjiang District taxi driver to death and buried the corpse in a roadside ditch in East China's Anhui Province have been sentenced to death.
Whistle-stop tour of China's 1st railway
SHANGHAI now has efficient bus lines, metro lines, highways and bridges over the Huangpu River.
Moonlighting to make more money
IT'S 9:30 am, the first class has just ended in the university and there won't be any more lessons before 3:15 pm today.
Prueher: Exchanges help build trust
By Joshua Shi
CULTURAL and educational co-operation between China and the United States helps build up trust between the two countries, Joseph Prueher, US Ambassador to China, said on Saturday. Prueher was speaking at the inauguration of Aetna School of Management of Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU). "The mutual understanding and trust based on cultural and educational exchanges and co-operation helps bridge the gap between the military circles of the two countries," said Prueher. The trust, Prueher added, helps dispel what he called "miscalculations" from either China and the United States. "The Aetna School of Management is a good example of mutual co-operation," said Prueher, noting the school embodies the "commitment" of the two countries as it trains China's future leaders. In 1996 at the university's centennial celebration, an agreement was signed between Shanghai Jiaotong University and the US-based Aetna International Corporation that Aetna would donate $10 million to build up the Aetna School of Management. On Saturday at the university's 104th anniversary, its School of Management was formally renamed SJTU Aetna School of Management. The Aetna Education Building, which was constructed at the cost of $7 million was also opened. The remaining $3 million will be used in the training of professors for the school. Both Zhang Weijiang, director of Shanghai Municipal Education Committee and Xie Shengwu, the university president said they aim to build the school into a first class MBA school in China and even in the world. The SJTU and Aetna Inc will further their co-operation in student education, faculty training, textbook publication, research and academic exchanges.
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