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!
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.
Brief
Machinery shows FOUR international shows displaying sensors, automatic technology, digital machine tools and hydropneumatic machinery open at the Everbright Convention Centre today. The shows which run for four days and feature 500 companies from 10 countries are expected to stimulate imports of advanced machinery. Industry experts say China will import $1,500 billion worth of machinery to serve the country's rapid economic growth over the next five years. Speedy flowers SWIFT customs clearance at Shanghai Customs allowed the last group of over 4 million flowers from the Netherlands, Israel and Taiwan arrive in time yesterday at Shanghai Changfeng Park for the Second Shanghai International Flower Festival. Flower exhibitors and importers were asked to complete pre-declaration procedures with customs before the flowers arrived in Shanghai to smooth the process. Flowers were later transported directly from the airport to the park, where customs officials checked them and finalized customs clearance procedures on site. Up until Sunday, 150,000 visitors had visited the festival. (Star News) Y2K hits shrimps WHILE Chinese banks spent millions on preventing Y2K devastation, a local shrimp seller managed to use the Y2K bug to make a few extra yuan. Xinmin Evening News reported on Saturday that customer Lao Wang bought 500 grams of shrimps at a stand on February 29. When he later weighed the shrimps at another balance, he found they weighed only 425 grams. Angered, Lao Wang returned to the stand to reason with the stand holder. The stall holder pointed to the electrical balance and apologized saying: "Something is wrong with the balance because it is February 29 today, the day the millen-nium bug wreaks havoc." (Star News)
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