Archive for October 17th, 2011
Shanghai Hospitals for expats living in Shanghai
1. Shanghai First People’s Hospital International Medical Care Center Tel: 6324 0090 ext. 2101 Add: 585 Jiu Long Rd.,Shanghai,200080 2. Shanghai Shu Guang Hospital (VIP Clinic) Tel: 5382 0179 Add: Room 810,No.185 Pu An Road,Shanghai 3. Longhua Hospital (VIP Clinic) Tel: 6438 5700 ext.3414 Add: 725 South Wanping Road,Shanghai 200032 4. Children’s Hospital of Fudan [...]
Foreign Consulates in Shanghai
1. Consulate General of Argentina Add: 4F, West Tower, Sun Plaza, No.88 Xianxia Road, Shanghai Tel: 021-62780300 Fax: 021-62958539 Post Code: 200336 Website: http://www.consuargensh.com/index.html E-mail:consuargensh@online.sh.cn 2. Consulate General of Australia Add: 22F, City Square, No.1168 Nanjing Road(W), Shanghai Telephone: (021) 2215 5200 Fax: (021) 2215 5252 Post Code: 200041 Website: http://www.shanghai.china.embassy.gov.au/shai/home.html E-mail:acgshang@public.sta.net.cn 3. Consulate General [...]
For flight times in Shanghai, dial ’96990′
Passengers can call “96990″ to check the timetable of flights at the city’s two airports, Hongqiao and Pudong. The hotline, which started yesterday, is in both Chinese and English. It will be convenient for travelers said the city airport operator. The operator said the original hotline “5260-4620″ for Hongqiao International Airport was shut off. People [...]
China Social security for expats
Social security for expats BEIJING – Foreign workers in China will be included in the country’s social security system as a new regulation took effect on Saturday. The Social Insurance Law passed in July allows foreign workers to enjoy retirement, medical, work injury, unemployment and maternity benefits similar to those for Chinese citizens. So you [...]
5.0-magnitude quake jolts China’s Xinjiang
5.0-magnitude quake jolts China’s Xinjiang BEIJING, Oct. 16 — An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale jolted a northern part of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, at 9:44 p.m. Beijing Time (13:44 GMT) Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). No casualties have been reported in the sparsely-populated region. The epicenter, [...]
Shanghai Medical mediator says system in good health
Shanghai Medical mediator says system in good health IF he was seeking a quiet life, medical dispute mediator Yuan Guiming is in the wrong job. For the 66-year-old has seen his workload increase many times over when the city introduced a fast-track arbitration system in August. Yuan, one of around 100 medical dispute mediators in [...]
Shanghai Sidewalk accident man loses leg
Shanghai Sidewalk accident man loses leg A MAN injured when a car plowed into a group of pedestrians on Saturday afternoon in downtown Shanghai had his right leg amputated yesterday. Four university students were injured in the accident in which a driver lost control of her vehicle and drove onto a sidewalk in Xuhui District. [...]
No more newlywed photo’s allowed in Shanghai Botanical Garden parks. New rules in Shanghai.
No more newlywed photo’s allowed in Shanghai Botanical Garden parks. New rules in Shanghai. NEWLYWEDS hoping to have wedding photographs taken in the romantic surroundings of Shanghai over the weekend were shocked to be turned away. The garden put up notices stating that commercial wedding photograph shoots are now banned. “Commercial shooting has damaged greenery [...]
Credit crunch in China hurts property developers
Credit crunch in China hurts property developers SHANGHAI: Property developer Zhang Xin made a fortune over the past decade on the back of a building boom fuelled by China’s blistering economic growth and the privatisation of its housing market. Now the co-founder of SOHO China, one of the nation’s leading developers, is worried Beijing’s efforts [...]
Deflating China’s housing bubble and Shanghai even biger bubble
Deflating China’s housing bubble As housing bubbles go, China’s looks relatively benign. Unlike in the United States, Chinese home buyers typically put down at least 40 percent of the purchase price. That means they don’t have to worry about a modest decline wiping out all their equity, and banks have little reason to fear an [...]
