Shanghai news
Gap to open China stores
Gap unveiled details of its entry into China with plans to open Gap stores in Beijing and Shanghai in late 2010, and simultaneously bring an online shopping experience to all Chinese consumers. The first four Gap stores will feature a full range of Gap adult, GapKids and babyGap product, including all styles of the brand’s [...]
Hilton Hotel closed in China over prostitution ring
Police in Chongqing in China have closed the upmarket Hilton Hotel after arresting 22 people suspected of running a prostitution ring. Police in Chongqing in China have closed the upmarket Hilton Hotel after arresting 22 people suspected of running a prostitution ring. The hotel was closed on Monday and customers were sent to other hotels, [...]
Rush hour extended in Shanghai
The government use to give the retired and over 65 people an amount of money for transportation every month. Now they have done away with that idea. They came up with a new idea, let’s give them free access to the buses and subways instead of giving them money. Now the usual rush hour tops [...]
Shanghai Halloween News
Chinese residents have lined up in Shanghai every night during the week for a chance to be scared to death. “Shanghai Nightmare” is one of Shanghai’s first haunted houses. A crumbling, century-old warehouse was converted into a haunted house for Halloween. Organizers created more than 13 different chambers filled with fright. Visitors have flocked to [...]
All aboard China’s new bullet train
All aboard China’s new bullet train When China’s $300 billion high-speed train system is completed, it will be the world’s largest, fastest, and most technologically sophisticated. The high-speed rail line that will eventually connect Beijing with Shanghai is expected to cut travel time from 10 hours to four when the line opens in a couple [...]
Holders of fake visas risk fines, deportation
EXPATRIATES who hold fake visas will be deported, Shanghai Exit-Entry Administration Bureau officials warned yesterday. Shanghai police officers have caught more than 300 foreigners holding counterfeit visas between January and September this year, 150 percent more than in the same period last year. “The increase has been partly caused by the financial crisis,” said an [...]
Lonely Hearts Club: China’s Gender Imbalance Could Leave 30 Million Men without Wives
SHANGHAI — every weekend in Shanghai’s ‘People’s Park Number Five,’ they come — mothers, fathers, grandparents — all holding pictures and posters of young Chinese men and women who are looking for love. Parental matchmaking isn’t easy, according to one man who tells FOX News that he’s been shopping for a wife for his 33-year-old [...]
Half price Tuesday for Shanghai tourists
Finally a way to see the city and save even if it’s only one day out of the week. You save a lot of money given the door ticket at most of the places are at least 80 rmb or $10. at least Tourists pose for photographs on May 3 on the 259-meter-high transparent walkway [...]
Shanghai GM April sales up 35% to 55,246 units
Shanghai GM April sales up 35% to 55,246 units They are doing so well in China and they are having so many problems in the states. If they cut costs on all the x-pats they employ in China they might actually make money instead of losing 17 million dollars a day! Shanghai, May 5 (Gasgoo.com) [...]
Inflation in Shanghai
Inflation in Shanghai It’s March 19,2008. I’m walking home and have to stop to buy a 2 liter of coke. He price for coke has been 6.10 RMB for months, or for at least as long as I remember, given I do the same thing almost everyday. Today I walked into the store to find [...]
