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.
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.
IT aces discuss reach of the Internet
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?
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.
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. What it was was the expression of a love for and a faith in the future of this town, not by some megalithic manufacturers, who have to be here if only to have Shanghai listed on the head office directory board, but some people who hope they will put Shanghai - and their business - on the world radar screen. They have gone beyond the hype and the economic stats of how many companies are locating here and the total number of "contracts inked" that leap out at us from the business pages. They are getting down and boogieing right here. Like Anthony Xavier Edwards, the only foreign designer resident in Shanghai to launch a collection here. Anthony, an Aussie, has lived in Shanghai for five years after spending time in Japan and other Asian countries. He began by designing and selling beautiful silk scarves, which are still part of the business. No shy person, Anthony's incredible sense of humour and extrovert personality dramatize his designs and make him a well-known character about town. He's even done a local TV commercial for chocolates. "Life wasn't meant to be easy," as the old maxim reminds us, but Anthony has toughed it out here. Local until now, he intends to start exporting Xavier label garments which are he says: "As good as you'll get anywhere." Fashion show choreographer was another foreigner, Amelie Mongrain, 27, whose wry, dry Gallic humour, honed in Ottawa and Montreal, Canada, added a fillip to the festivities. Now in her fifth year as a fashion design lecturer at Donghua-Lasalle International College, formerly the China Textile University, she firmly believes: "China has its own fashion, nurtured by a unique history and tradition." She feels, that "by overcoming the barriers of country and selecting characteristics from other cultures, our students accomplish something that is uniquely their own - a stronger expression of the fashion they create." Brian Cummins from Australia now works in Shanghai.
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