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.
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!
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.
Murderers of taxi driver given death sentence
By Chen Yongliang
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. He Xinquan and Gao Xinglong from Shanghai have been given death sentences and fined 20,000 ($2,400) respectively. Hu Kebao from Huoqiu in Anhui Province will serve life imprisonment. The three men sold the taxi of the murdered man for 40,000 yuan ($4,800) in Huoqiu after killing him on May 23, 1998. They then spent all the money with their friends. The identities of the murderers was only revealed when Hu Kebao was arrested for a separate case of theft in July last year. The prison authorities discovered Hu had been using his brother's name and an investigation indicated that he was suspected of selling a stolen car in Huoqiu. Hu later confessed to the robbery and the murder and provided clues which led to the arrest in September last year of the other two suspects. As Hu was co-operative with police investigations he was dealt with leniently.
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