Shanghai news
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 the haunted [...]
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 of years. [...]
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 exit-entry bureau [...]
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 son [...]
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) Last month, [...]
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 the price [...]
China produces first home-grown bullet train
Another first for China. They are just trying to be number one in every feild possible. now they are in the bullet train business.
China’s first domestically developed high-speed bullet train, capable of reaching 300 kilometres (190 miles) per hour, rolled off the production line on Saturday, state media reported.
“China has joined an elite world club [...]
Credit controls cool Shanghai real estate
China looking at the United states and the problems they have, have come to realize it might be a bubble in China especially in Shanghai and Beijing.
The once red-hot housing market of Shanghai is losing its luster, as government credit controls begin to bite.
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China market makes a move up!
Chinese share prices rose for a second consecutive session on Thursday, lifted by restored confidence among investors. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, which covers both A and B shares, jumped 101.75 points, or 2.06 percent, to finish at 5,043.54. It traded between 4,923.30 and 5,050.79, after closing up 2.18 percent at 4,941.78 on Wednesday.
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