BECAUSE Chinese and English characters might not be clear enough for foreign visitors, the city's Metro authority is now planning to name subway stations by numbers. The subway operator, Shanghai Shentong Group,...
THE Metro is soliciting public opinion on its newly designed mascot , a robot looks like the subway locomotive. The mascot, named "Chang Chang," meaning smooth traffic in Chinese, was chosen from five candidates....
WITH an eye toward putting high-protein Antarctic krill on Chinese tables, two Chinese oceangoing vessels will navigate the Antarctic circle late this month to collect information on the shrimp-like creatures for commercial...
MORE than 100 local poetry fans participated in a poetry recitation fair sponsored by the Shanghai Translators Association yesterday. Artists read works by Goethe, Shelley and other famous poets in both Chinese...
A MOPED rider was injured yesterday afternoon when his vehicle collided with a passing sedan, catapulting him about 200 meters. The accident occurred on Zhennan Road, Putuo District, at 13:50pm.
ZHABEI District People's Court has sentenced a woman to help her ex-husband repay debts, officers said yesterday. A woman surnamed Zhu loaned 480,000 yuan (US$70,300) to a co-worker who failed to return it. The...
CHINESE citizens surnamed Wang top the family name list of domestic outgoing tourists, according to the Pudong Entry-Exit Frontier Inspection Station. In the past 11 months, 15,000 Chinese surnamed Wang traveled...
BUILDERS started laying track for the Shanghai-Beijing Rail Express yesterday, another step toward the project's completion next July. The 300-kilometer railway is expected to shorten the Shanghai-Nanjing trip...
LOCAL authorities detained 34 dump trucks and fined 99 trucks a total of 67,250 yuan (US$9,845) for overloading, dirtiness or a lack of required certificates in an overnight crackdown on improper truck operations. ...
A DISTRICT task force is in talks with victims and relatives of the killed and injured in Friday's gas leak on such issues as compensation. The accident in Hongkou District caused two deaths and 23 injuries as...
THE city's anti-domestic violence aid center, opened two weeks ago, so far hasn't received any victims, the center's officials said yesterday. The Shanghai Women's Federation said it's likely some women were...
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