James Birthday in Shanghai

Fri 25 Jun 2010 03:54:16 AM PDT

Hong Kong James comes to Shanghai to celebrate his birthday at Shanghai Muse 1 and Shanghai Richie Rich

Soft opening of The Shanghai Apple Flagship store July 8,2010

Thu 08 Jul 2010 04:22:59 AM PDT

For those who looked at the glass structure and thought, “That’s it?”, fear not -- the 40 foot-tall glass cylinder is only the entrance to the Shanghai Apple store, which is located underneath. Shanghai sees a new Apple store open.

Shanghai Expo 2010

Thu 22 Jul 2010 03:04:35 AM PDT

The www.expo2010china.com, managed by the Bureau of the Shanghai World Expo Coordination, is the only official Website of World Expo 2010 Shanghai China.

Shanghai Muse 1

Mon 06 Sep 2010 01:27:20 AM PDT

地址: 静安区余姚路68号同乐坊内(近海防路) 公交查询 驾车查询电话: 021-52135183 (在您致电店家时，不妨告知是通过大众点评网查到的。分类: 酒吧 同乐坊

营业时间: 20:30-05:002/F, The New Factories, 68 Yuyao Lu, near Xikang Lu,http://www.museshanghai.cn www.museshanghai.cn

Number of Death Rises in Shanghai High-Rise Fire

Mon 15 Nov 2010 09:12:09 PM PST

At Least 53 Reported Dead in Massive Shanghai High-Rise Fire. SHANGHAI -- The death toll in a massive fire that gutted a high-rise apartment building under renovation in Shanghai rose to 53 Tuesday, with more than 70 others in hospital.
The official Xinhua news agency cited a witness saying the fire began when building materials caught alight. The blaze spread to scaffolding and then to the 28-story apartment block itself, which houses a number of retired teachers, it said.
The government said more than 100 fire trucks were called to battle the blaze, which was largely put out about four hours later. Firefighters could be seen taking bodies from the building, while survivors were rushed away in ambulances.
Other survivors were housed overnight in a gym of a nearby retirement home.
Xinhua said Tuesday that the death toll had risen to 53. It said more than 70 others had been rushed to hospitals.
There were sad scenes at hospitals as relatives searched for their loved ones. At Jing'an hospital, the father of Wang Yinxing, a 30-year-old woman who lived on the 22nd floor of the building, searched a list of survivors at the hospital but could not find his daughter's name.
"She called her husband and said: 'It's on fire! I have escaped from the 22nd floor to the 24th floor,' but then the phone got cut off," the father, Wang Zhiliang, 65, said with tears in his eyes. "That was the last we heard from her."
Some residents escaped by climbing down scaffolding that had been put up for the renovations. A resident identified as Mr. Zhou told Hong Kong broadcaster Phoenix TV that he and his wife were napping in their 23rd floor apartment when they smelled smoke. He said they climbed down the scaffolding four stories before being rescued by firefighters.
An unidentified woman told Shanghai television her only option was to climb down the scaffolding. "If I jumped I would die, if I stayed (in the building) I would die," she said.
Public Security Minister Meng Jianzhu, China's top policeman, called Tuesday for an investigation into the cause of the fire.
He said anyone responsible for the blaze would be punished.
Survivors were taken to nine Shanghai hospitals, and a doctor at Jing'an Central Hospital surnamed Zhang said more than 20 seriously hurt people had been admitted for treatment. Most of the survivors had suffered asphyxia from the smoke fumes, another doctor said.
Shanghai state television showed survivors at another hospital in the city, covered in thick blankets as they emerged from a high-pressure oxygen chamber.
The state-run news website Eastday.com cited a construction worker surnamed Qian who escaped from the 28th story as saying crews were installing energy-saving insulation when the fire occurred.
Xinhua quoted local residents as saying the building was built in the 1990s and housed mainly teachers from several schools in Jing'an District, many of them retirees.

after the great Shanghai building fire Nov 18,2010

Thu 18 Nov 2010 12:33:44 AM PST

Shanghai police held eight suspects on Tuesday after a Shanghai apartment fire that killed at least 53 people was blamed on unlicensed welding, in a jolt for the growing number of people who live in high-rises in China.

The fire gutted a 28-storey high-rise in China's busy commercial hub, sending plumes of black smoke over the city.

"The fire started because someone was illegally welding on the 10th floor and the spark led to the big fire. The sparks hit the nylon mesh on the outside of the building," Cheng Jiulong, deputy head of the Shanghai police, told a news conference.

He said the eight people would be charged with "responsibility for a major accident", declining to answer repeated questions about who exactly had been detained.

Xinhua news agency said earlier that four people had been detained. It also provided no other details.

The swift steps to assign blame for the fire that swept up the 85-meter-high building showed how worried officials are to ease alarm among residents about the more than four hours it took to put it out.

"We feel that the fire rescue measures and methods weren't fast enough, and secondly they weren't vigorous enough," said Du Deyuan, a 66-year-old resident who said he lived on the 26th floor and was out when the fire broke out.

"People live in high-rises, and then you have this burn all the way from low down to the 28th storey, burned so the whole building is blazing red. What could the people inside do?"