Prueher: Exchanges help build trust
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.
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.
Free flights to help orphans' treatment in US
By Peter Chen
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. Four of them are from orphanages in Luoyang, in Central China's Henan Province, and one from an orphanage in Tianjin Municipality. The five children are the first recipients of a grant from Northwest Airlines' "Friend of China" programme awarded to help needy patients get required surgery at the medical centre of Virginia University. A representative of the China Charity Foundation said the direct flight, twice a week, will "help orphaned Chinese children who need medical treatment." Northwest donated 1 million yuan ($120,000) in free air trans-portation to initiate the programme aimed at helping people with special needs in China receive medical treatment in the US. John Watkins, Northwest vice-president, said American children will also be sent to China to undergo medical treatment they are unable to receive at home. "They will undergo complex heart, eye and cleft palate surgery at the hospitals," he said. The programme has been jointly set up by the Grace Children's Foundation and China Charity Foundation. Grace has arranged for surgeons at participating hospitals to operate for free and the hospitals to also make staff and facilities available for free. The partnership will enable at least 12 orphaned Chinese children each year to receive medical treatment in the United States, said Nancy Robertson, executive director of Grace. Under the programme, Northwest will send at least 30 children to the United States this year for urgent surgical procedures and will fly at least 25 US doctors to China to perform heart and eye surgery for China's neediest citizens.
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