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Shanghai GDP growth slows as property sector cools

By Wang Qingchu | 2012-1-20

SHANGHAI'S economy grew an annualized 8.2 percent in 2011 with its gross domestic product hitting 1.92 trillion yuan (US$305 billion), Shanghai Statis...

Kodak set to feel the shutter fall

EASTMAN Kodak Co, inventor of the hand-held camera and the company that helped bring the world the first pictures from the moon, has filed for bankrup...

Fans rush to snap up film rolls

Long arms found for the rescue of dolphin

It's no laughing matter as an ill Zhao cancels TV gala spot

Apple releases iBooks 2 scheme to reinvent textbooks

Weather bureau to update data each hour online

THE Shanghai Meteorological Bureau will update the weather forecast every hour on its website and microblogs starting in March, officials said yesterd...

3 nations, 5 hours of 'Got Talent' on TV

WINNERS and finalists from the "Got Talent" series in Britain and America will perform and exchange their acts together with Chinese talents during th...

Cars vandalized in Pudong

DOZENS of cars' windshields were smashed and the contents inside were stolen this week in several residential areas in the Pudong New Area, police sai...

Airline to broadcast about city in Shanghai dialect

Woman returns to claim abandoned baby

Tearful farewell

Supercomputer built in China takes wing in Jinan

THE Sunway BlueLight supercomputer, built with domestically produced microprocessors and capable of performing about 1,000 trillion calculations per s...

Expensive RedPads for officials spark controversy

CHINA'S Party and government officials can now carry a tablet PC to verify identification cards, read the blogs of cadres and manage state-owned firms...

Surging Chinese travel spurs US visa work

Ma heads new leadership announced for Taiwan

TODAY IN HISTORY

On this day in 1937, the Communist Party of China established a university in Yan’an, Shaanxi Provin...

JAN

Americans filing for new jobless benefits drop to near 4-year low

THE number of Americans filing for new jobless benefits dropped to a near four-year low last week, pointing to some building up of momentum in the lab...

Shanghai posts record trade deficit

SHANGHAI reported a record trade deficit of US$17.9 billion in 2011, widening from US$7.3 billion in 2010, local customs said yesterday. Shanghai'...

China Auto is 1st Chinese firm to file for US listing since rule change

CHINA Auto Rental Inc has become the first Chinese company to file for a US listing since regulators changed the rules so that foreign issuers can no ...

Busy year for local bank watchdog

Value-added output likely to climb 9%

Beijing posts 12% drop in property sales

Greentown denies boss arrested for bribery

Fans rush to snap up film rolls

Chip maker's unit eyes IPO in Shanghai

Special night for Golden Globes

2012-1-17

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Barcelona rallies to deny Real once again

BARCELONA got the better of archrival Real Madrid again on Wednesday with Eric Abidal scoring a rare goal to give his team a 2-1 win in the first leg ...

Roddick out with injury as Murray, Djokovic roll on

ANDY Roddick's attempt to win another grand slam title nearly a decade after his first ended yesterday at the Australian Open when he had to retire fr...

Baghdatis creates a racket in Aussie loss

SERENA Williams was impressed. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was surprised. Novak Djokovic just couldn't wait to join the hundreds of thousands of people to have...

Big Shot Billups lands winning blow for Clippers

Beckham to re-join Galaxy on a 2-year contract

7 die in Afghan bomb attack

Murdoch firm pays hacking damages to 37

RUPERT Murdoch's British newspaper company yesterday agreed to pay damages to 37 high-profile victims of tabloid phone-hacking, including actor Jude L...

Captain kept quiet that ship struck reef

A NEW audiotape emerged yesterday of the first contact between Livorno port officials and the Costa Concordia - a full 30 minutes after it had rammed ...

Nuke reactor pictures show rust and radiation, but no fuel

Republican Perry quits US presidential race

Art | Stage | Fashion | Travel

Bringing forgotten soldiers home

WE know about the famous Flying Tigers, Merrill's Marauders and the Burma Road but the valor of the Chinese Expeditionary Forces in Burma is far less ...

Park animals to get New Year feast

WHILE animals living in local zoos will spend a happy Chinese New Year, stray cats and dogs face a hard and cold time. But volunteers are trying their...

Unlady-like show wins applause

TAIWANESE college student and comedian Sie Yi-lin shot to fame overnight by doing everything young Chinese ladies are not supposed to do - being outra...

Natural light adds warmth to big villa

Soccer legend Maradona comes to town

Relics shed light on human history

Struggling to get home for the holiday

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...

Fed policies anything but prudent

WE couldn't help reading a recent article by Tyler Cohen, Harvard (Chicago School), and feel that someone left us a holiday present under the tree. ...

Ideology and vested interests hobble growth in the West

US 'liberates' Iraq, but bars Iraqi refugees

China could lead with traditional value of humility and listening