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City retailers have reason to smile

By Jin Jing and Lu Feiran | 2012-1-29

THE Year of the Dragon is off to a strong start for Shanghai retailers. With average daily sales at around 812 million yuan (US$128.5 million) for...

Cadmium pollution may be twice safe level

WATER and environmental authorities in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region are working to control cadmium pollution in a local river, while ruling ou...

Firecrackers kill 1, leave less waste in the capital

Birdwatchers flock to Chongming

City retailers have reason to smile

THE Year of the Dragon is off to a strong start for Shanghai retailers. With average daily sales at around 812 million yuan (US$128.5 million) for...

Metro repairs

REPAIR work at Hailun Road Station on Shanghai's Metro Line 4 was completed yesterday and normal operation will resume on the entire line today. The r...

Pudong gas leak

THREE people were poisoned by a gas leak at a rented apartment in a community in Shanghai's Pudong New Area on Friday. One woman was still hospitalize...

Fireworks send air pollution to 5 times safe level

Shanghai tourist killed in Taiwan road accident

Fireworks welcome the God of Fortune

Cadmium pollution may be twice safe level

WATER and environmental authorities in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region are working to control cadmium pollution in a local river, while ruling ou...

Get ready for the great dragon baby boom

ALTHOUGH dragons may scare some people, many young Chinese couples are determined to have a child this year despite pressures their offspring may face...

Firecrackers kill 1, leave less waste in the capital

FIRECRACKERS lit by Beijing residents to celebrate Chinese New Year killed one person and injured more than 200 others, the government reported yester...

Mainland boosts Taiwan tourism

Chinese railway readies as post-holiday travel rush begins

TODAY IN HISTORY

On this day in 1979, China's vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, who later became the leader of the country,...

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IMF presses for euro zone support

INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde led a global push yesterday for the euro zone to boost its financial firewall, saying "if it is bi...

Greece close to deal

GREECE and its private creditors head back to the negotiating table to put together the final pieces of a long-awaited debt swap agreement needed to a...

Airbus says A380 wing cracks pose no danger

TINY cracks discovered in the wings of Airbus superjumbo A380 planes can be easily repaired and pose no danger, the aircraft's manufacturer said yeste...

Facebook may file for IPO next week

'We care about every worker': Apple CEO

US economy picked up modestly in Q4

Finance chiefs hopeful on Europe debt crisis

Bringing forgotten soldiers home

2012-1-20

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Kuyt fires Liverpool past United

SUBSTITUTE Dirk Kuyt struck two minutes from time to give hosts Liverpool a 2-1 FA Cup fourth-round win over Manchester United yesterday with visiting...

Barca draw to leave Real seven clear in La Liga

REAL Madrid moved seven points clear at the top of La Liga with a comfortable 3-1 win over bottom side Real Zaragoza as Barcelona could only draw 0-0 ...

Bayern and Dortmund win to keep title race tight

BAYERN Munich stayed top of the Bundesliga on goal difference thanks to a nervous 2-0 win over VfL Wolfsburg yesterday, with champions Borussia Dortmu...

Azarenka finally reaches summit

Alex joins PSG, Milan wins Lopez loan

Traditional ceremony in Nepal

Gillard aide resigns after clash between police and protesters

A CLASH between protesters and Australian police that forced bodyguards to rush Prime Minister Julia Gillard out of an event appears to have been set ...

'Barefoot Bandit' gets 6 1/2 years jail

A US federal judge sentenced "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore to 6 1/2 years in prison for his infamous two-year, international crime spree of br...

US seizes juice with fungicide

5 held in Murdoch probe

Art | Stage | Fashion | Travel

Birdwatchers flock to Chongming

TO migratory birds in the frozen wastes of Siberia, the chilly Chongming wetlands look pretty good at this time of year and flocks of bird watchers ar...

Exhibit an eclectic mix of ideas

MINSHENG Art Museum is hosting an exhibition by the Paris-based Kadist Art Foundation. The "Kadist: Pathways into a Collection" exhibit is structu...

Paralyzed man creates embroidery

JIN Ji's arms are paralyzed but he holds an embroidery needle in his mouth and seems to kiss the cloth as he amazingly executes cross-stitches to crea...

Narcissus blooms for Spring Festival

Model 'green' building opens to the public

Scholars and scientists delve into big ideas

Beautiful ideas

Chinese perspectives | Foreign perspectives

Good news on US economy isn't so good

MACROECONOMIC indicators for the United States have been better than expected for the last few months. Job creation has picked up. Indicators for manu...

Capitalism worsens income gap and fosters instability

THE late professor Hyman P. Minsky's "Stabilizing an Unstable Economy" explains why capitalism is inherently unstable and how government responses aff...

Fed policies anything but prudent

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