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.
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.
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.
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! To tell you the truth, I felt like I was coming back to the future. Thank God the Huangpu River has not dried up because otherwise I would not have been able to find my way around this much-changed city at all. Buildings have sprung up like mushrooms - as quick as bamboo trees I should say. Highways have spread like ivy, not to mention shops, bars and restaurants. I remember in 1995, when I first came to visit factories in the industrial district of Pudong I would sit back and take a good nap in the taxi, because traffic congestion meant the trip was always very long. Now that the tunnel is open, I can forget about a rest on the way to work. Walking on Nanjing Road was an adventure in 1995. Taxis, bicycles and a thousand people on the narrow sidewalk. You were lucky if you could make a 100 metres in five minutes. Now I can sit for hours on a bench on Nanjing Road in front of that huge TV screen and just watch people going by or little kids playing. I used to go to the Bund early in the morning to watch people doing taijiquan. Now I don't have to go that far: I sit at my window right on Nanjing Road every morning with a cup of coffee and watch the live taijiquan and women dancing with red fans. They look like butterflies in a hyper-modern city. People's Square seems 10 times bigger than before. The Opera house is an architectural wonder. It's the kind of building whose magnificence leaves you speechless. There are still so many things for me to discover in Shanghai - a city which should win a gold medal for jumping into the 21st Century! Elisabeth Avenard from France now works as a Communication & Sales Manager of Sofitel Hyland Shanghai.
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