Retirements may be delayed to ease strain on city pension fund

By Jia Feishang | 2010-2-9

SHANGHAI plans to extend the retirement age for men and women to relieve pressure on its pension fund, this year's annual human resources and social s...

Shanghai land plot sets China cost record

A PARCEL of land sold at auction in downtown Shanghai yesterday became the most expensive piece of real estate in China. The 13,709-square-meter p...

Pets reign on Valentine's Day

Plug pulled on massive hacker-training Website

China Pavilion - you just can't beat that

Marathon official: no cheating detected

THE organizer of last year's Shanghai International Marathon said yesterday that officials had found no cheaters in the competition, despite suspicion...

Heavy fog brings traffic to halt

HEAVY fog shrouded Shanghai yesterday morning, halting highway and ferry traffic and delaying a number of flights from the city's two airports, author...

Woman falls, and so does kindness

A WOMAN who fell off an escalator at a Shanghai department store and lost consciousness was left unattended for about 20 minutes because members of th...

Love triangle ends with blood

Spain cloaks its pavilion in tiger's 'skin'

His HK flat is small, but it's got it all

AS a youngster living in a tiny flat with six others in one of the world's most densely populated cities, Hong Kong architect Gary Chang has been obse...

Former Anhui official receives death reprieve in bribery case

A FORMER official in Anhui Province was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve yesterday for taking bribes and framing an informant. Zhang Zh...

Aye of the tiger as conservation efforts pay off

CHINA has an estimated 50 or fewer tigers left in the wild, but efforts to stabilize one population in the northeast were starting to pay off, a conse...

Cop: I took the money, but didn't help gangs

Actress Zhang fulfills donation shortfall

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On this day in 1980, Quanjude, the world-famous Beijing restaurant serving Beijing duck, restored it...

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Lamborghini's fast show

Toyota recall hits Chinese sales

TOYOTA'S massive vehicle recall because of defective accelerators is not only triggering a crisis of confidence in the Japanese car maker in China but...

China Eastern seeks investor

CHINA Eastern Airlines is taking steps to improve its performance, such as seeking strategic investors and widening its flight network, to help buil...

Buyout fund gives CITIC US$925m to invest

US trade tensions to intensify

Dow closes below 10,000 for first time in 3 months

Wintry weather drives energy prices higher

France too good for Scotland

MATHIEU Bastareaud scored his first two international tries to help France open its Six Nations campaign with an 18-9 away victory over Scotland on Su...

Ovechkin tricks to extend Caps' run

THE Washington Capitals secured their 14th successive victory with a hat-trick from Alex Ovechkin and a game-winning goal from Mike Knuble that sank t...

Drogba's double buries Arsenal

FIRST-HALF goals from Didier Drogba earned Chelsea a 2-0 win over visiting Arsenal on Sunday and secured a return to the top of the Premier League two...

When the Saints go marching in ...

Hot Stricker wins to grab No. 2 rank

Avalanche kills 17 soldiers

AT least 17 Indian soldiers were killed when an avalanche smashed into a military training camp near the country's disputed border with Pakistan yeste...

Opposition leader Yanukovych wins Ukraine presidential vote

OPPOSITION leader Viktor Yanukovych emerged as the apparent winner in Ukraine's presidential contest yesterday, holding onto a lead of almost 3 percen...

Australia says no more chefs,we need engineers and doctors

AUSTRALIA will dump 20,000 low-skilled migrant applications to re-focus its immigration intake on professional skills critical to the economy and to h...

Iran plans to increase uranium enrichment

Endeavour blasts off on mission

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Cruising 2010: More ships, better shows, water parks, single-cabins

CRUISING has weathered the economic downturn with flying colors. Most cruises are fully booked, more cruise ships are being launched, and they offer...

All that wild and woolly weather is part of global warming

DESPITE the record cold and snow in the Northern Hemisphere, global warming is here to stay, say climatologists. Extremes of weather - short-term me...

The art of interior dialogue

THE "Young Artists Show" at Leo Gallery features works of the emerging post-1980s generation. Nancy Zhang looks at two whose art shares an introspecti...

True value of turtles

Remember your liver

A month of sitting

Zzzs on the road

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Football graft probe needs to net syndicate gamblers

RECENT reports about a sweeping anti-corruption cleanup in the dismally performing Chinese Football Association finally gave disaffected fans somethin...

You can't put a price on beauty of nature

MR Wang Yong, I have just returned from town where I enjoyed lunch with my good friend, Lowell Carlson, who is the editor of our local weekly news...

Helping Haiti recover before interest wanes

Running a company is like raising a pig

Behind 'green' buzzwords: Which energies work best

Mother springs to life in coffin

A MOURNING family was shocked when their mother knocked from inside her coffin just as her funeral was about t...

Police: Man stuffed 75 bottles of lotion in pants

Pet owner killed by dogs after saving them from death

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America's favorite furry brothers Alvin, Simon and Theodore are back. Because of a freak accident in...

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