History museum moves to Pudong
WORK is underway to move Shanghai History Museum on Hongqiao Road in west Shanghai to Pudong New Area, just below the Oriental TV Tower.
To make home less polluted
SCIENTISTS are promoting measures to help co-ordinate economic growth with environmental protection.
New standards to measure air
SHANGHAI's air quality remained in class 2 last week, meaning it was of almost no harm to human health, according to a report from the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Centre.
Taking a chance on their loves
IT was a wild, wonderful, wacky night. A night of individual fashion - both on the catwalk and on the crowd - champagne and canapes, beer for the blokes, kisses in the air, driving modern music, all in a glittering, setting at the Portman Ritz-Carlton ballroom in the Shanghai Centre.
Cross-Straits talks on air cargo
TALKS are continuing between aviation companies from Shanghai and Taiwan about the formation of a joint venture to transport cargo between the mainland and the island province.
Campaigns to get tougher on CVD piracy
YE Danping is a VCD fanatic who once watched five VCDs in a single day.
Big reward offered over pirated Ci Hai
A REWARD of up to 150,000 yuan ($18,000) for the provider of any clues which may trace to the manufacturer of pirated editions of Ci Hai, (one of the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionaries of Chinese words), was offered by Shanghai Lexical Publishing House recently.
Nab on-line obscene VCD seller
SHANGHAI Harbour Police recently arrested a VCD vendor suspected of peddling pornographic VCDs through the Internet.
Printemps sold
HONG Kong investor of Printemps has been doing a little spring cleaning, as it transferred shares in the loss-making upmarket department store on Huaihai Road to Shanghai Yimin Department Store Co Ltd.
Stamps take licking
POSTAGE stamp sales in Shanghai are still slow even though the Shanghai Postal Bureau turned 8 million yuan ($966,000) worth of stamps into paper pulp on May 31 to rid itself of unsalable stock.
Insurance sector must expand says German co
HANNOVER Reinsurance Group, of Germany, the fifth-largest professional reinsurer in the world, says China should greatly expand the numbers and scale of its domestic insurance companies in a move to increase their competitiveness in the upcoming challenges following WTO accession expected later this year.
IT aces discuss reach of the Internet
By Zeng Min
CHATTING, shopping or clinching big deals on-line sounds great, but the Internet is still a club reserved for an elite few. How can farmers in China, shepherds in Iran or a remote community in Africa be initiated into cyberspace? "That is why enhancing public awareness of the benefits of the Internet is a big global issue," said Makarim Wibisono, president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Wibisono told Shanghai Star yesterday during a high-profile IT forum in Shanghai that the overwhelming majority of Internet users are from North America, with the United States and Canada accounting for 70 per cent of the world's total netizen population. "People in the developing world are being sidelined in cyberspace," he said. This is one of the major topics of discussion at the three-day IT forum which kicked off yesterday in the Shanghai International Convention Centre. Mayors and senior officials from 44 Asia Pacific cities including Seoul, Montreal, Yokohama, Hong Kong and Beijing have joined with officials from the United States and global IT giants to talk about co-operation and exchange on the information technology front. The first gathering of its kind in the Asia Pacific rim, the forum is focusing on issues such as how to help people get on-line faster, how to conduct e-business, the role of the government in improving on-line services such as distant education and health care and building an intelligent community. The conference is expected to pass a Declaration of Shanghai which commits Asia Pacific cities to co-operating for cyber infrastructure updates, on-line services and e-government and e-business. Wibisono said the United Nations will be staging a variety of activities to promote use of the Internet in the region. Turning to Shanghai, Wibisono said that he was very impressed by the city's infrastructure and added Shanghai is a leading player in Internet development in Asia. He said Mayor Xu Kuangdi has been invited by the UN to join another high-profile IT conference at UN headquarters, New York, which will open in July.
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