When lunch break comes at the construction site between Shanghai and Suzhou in eastern China, Xi Tong-li and his fellow laborers bolt for some nearby trees and the merciful slivers of shade they provide. It's 95 degrees and humid -- a typically oppressive summer day in southeastern China -- but it's not just mad dogs and Englishmen who go out in the midday sun.
Skywatchers are gathering from parking lots in western India to music festivals on remote Japanese islands to witness what NASA describes as an "exceptionally long" total solar eclipse that will cross half the planet on Wednesday.
A man wielding a knife broke into a Shanghai-area police station Tuesday, killing five police officers and injuring four others, authorities said.
Shunted into the wings for the capital's coming-out party, China's second city swaggers back onto the global stage
World stock markets fell sharply Thursday as troubles at U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers fanned fears of more credit-market losses and drove down financial company shares across the region
China's tallest building, the 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center, will open to the public on Saturday, 14 years after its developer began the project
Police in China have "cracked" an international terrorist group that was planning to attack Olympic venues in Shanghai, state media reported Thursday.
A jobless man bent on revenge and armed with a butcher knife stormed a police station in Shanghai on Tuesday
The backlash in China against Sharon Stone continued as the Shanghai International Film Festival said the American actress was not welcome at this year's event
China's producer price index, a key indicator of inflation, rose 8.1 per cent in April over the same month a year earlier, the government reported Friday, as a top economic official sought new controls to cool rising prices
When lunch break comes at the construction site between Shanghai and Suzhou in eastern China, Xi Tong-li and his fellow laborers bolt for some nearby trees and the merciful slivers of shade they provide. It's 95 degrees and humid -- a typically oppressive summer day in southeastern China -- but it's not just mad dogs and Englishmen who go out in the midday sun.
Skywatchers are gathering from parking lots in western India to music festivals on remote Japanese islands to witness what NASA describes as an "exceptionally long" total solar eclipse that will cross half the planet on Wednesday.
A man wielding a knife broke into a Shanghai-area police station Tuesday, killing five police officers and injuring four others, authorities said.
Shunted into the wings for the capital's coming-out party, China's second city swaggers back onto the global stage
World stock markets fell sharply Thursday as troubles at U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers fanned fears of more credit-market losses and drove down financial company shares across the region
China's tallest building, the 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center, will open to the public on Saturday, 14 years after its developer began the project
Police in China have "cracked" an international terrorist group that was planning to attack Olympic venues in Shanghai, state media reported Thursday.
A jobless man bent on revenge and armed with a butcher knife stormed a police station in Shanghai on Tuesday
The backlash in China against Sharon Stone continued as the Shanghai International Film Festival said the American actress was not welcome at this year's event
China's producer price index, a key indicator of inflation, rose 8.1 per cent in April over the same month a year earlier, the government reported Friday, as a top economic official sought new controls to cool rising prices
Three people were killed and at least 12 hurt when a bus burned in Shanghai, China on Monday, a state-run news agency reported.
Before following his father into the property business, Minoru Mori dreamed of becoming a novelist. So when he returned from an October 1993 visit to Shanghai talking excitedly of a plan to construct the world's tallest building on the impoverished east side of the city's Huangpu River, rivals in Tokyo snickered that Mori had rekindled his interest in fiction.
"Shanghai looks like the future!"
Professional tennis takes a backseat to the mainstream sports world in the fall. As far as most Americans are concerned, the ATP season effectively ends after the U.S. Open.
China Construction Bank Corp., the country's biggest property lender, has raised $7.7 billion in mainland China's biggest initial public offering so far, state media reported Wednesday.
Houston Rockets' star center Yao Ming married longtime girlfriend - and basketball player for the Chinese national women's team - Ye Li at a posh hotel in his hometown of Shanghai on Monday, reports the Associated Press.
On a crowded Sunday morning inside the Forbidden City, one of China's best-known TV anchors is warily eyeing a squat, slope-roofed building that for five centuries housed the office of the emperor'...
It's the start of a new lunar calendar here in China and what better way to commence the Year of the Pig than with profit-taking stampedes on exchanges in Shenzhen and Shanghai that drag down markets around the globe?
The beaming bride in a white wedding gown, the eyes of 400 guests upon her, grips the arm of her groom and walks down the red-carpeted aisle of the hotel ballroom. It could be a wedding anywhere, e...
The Scene spent the day in Shanghai with actress Bai Ling. Do you have a favorite hangout in Shanghai? What's your favorite Bai Ling movie? Send us your suggestions and read your comments below.
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Best thing about Shanghai: The early morning sunlight sparkling over the river along the Bund, many boats slowly moving in their own melody like in a surreal painting. It seems as if the river is smiling with an open heart. It feels like you can walk on the most gentle and soft land on earth, it is a dream land that only happens then.
From Pudong Airport, take the Shanghai Transrapid train for a high speed (270mph) levitated ride, then pick up the metro into the center of Shanghai.
Hot, humid and swept by typhoons, Shanghai is the brightest star on the oriental horizon.
CNN International anchor and correspondent Kristie LuStout files her "Shanghai Diary" as part of CNN's extensive "Eye on China" coverage.
Shanghai is a city for international foodies -- you can savor the salt roasted lamb at M on the Bund, twirl through the fresh pasta at Palladio, or just bask in the glam atmosphere of Jean-Georges.
Twenty-five miles from Shanghai, scores of Chinese workers are putting the finishing touches on a little bit of Britain.
In December 2003, Chinese-American James Ku helped establish a start-up in Shanghai, promoting Chinese business to American investors.
Alachua, Fla. (Pop. 7,020), is an unlikely place to look for signs of Chinese global domination. But look again. Along a lush stretch of U.S. Highway 441 about 12 miles northwest of Gainesville sits a rechargeable-battery factory. Its name: Moltech, or as it's known to its Chinese owners, Motaike, a transliteration whose characters mean "magic power."
ALACHUA, FLA. (POP. 7,020), is an unlikely place to look for signs of Chinese global domination. But look again. Along a lush stretch of U.S. Highway 441 about 12 miles northwest of Gainesville sit...
China is changing rapidly -- and nowhere faster than in the skyline of Shanghai.
Seeing Barrett Comiskey lounging in the rooftop beer garden of Shanghai's fabled Peace Hotel at twilight, sipping his cool Tsingtao and gazing down at the hurly-burly street scene below, you may be...
Shanghai is the birthplace of the world's biggest anti-capitalist political movement.
You can buy anything in modern Shanghai. Well, almost anything.
China's biggest city, Shanghai, plans to extend the world's only commercially operating high-speed magnetic levitation line as part of preparations for hosting the 2010 World Expo, city officials said.
A private school in Shanghai run by Americans has turned over nine North Korean women to Chinese police after they entered the facility in an apparent bid for asylum.
In the 1930s, Shanghai, known as the Paris of the East, was the cabaret and jazz center of Asia.
Balance, not rapid growth, is the central theme of this year's session of China's National People's Congress.
'I can make furniture just like Bo Concept's," brags Zheng Yong, a salesman at Xujiahui Furniture World in Shanghai, a cluttered department store near a busy shopping district. Based in one of the ...
Not long ago, Shanghai officials were boasting that 80% of the world's cranes were at work in their city. That may have been a stretch, but it's true that countless buildings have flowered on this ...
When we read in the papers that the Sultan of Brunei's brother Prince Jefri had reportedly gone missing with some $8 billion of the family fortune, we knew just what to do: send our man Rich Behar ...
Soon to be wed, Shanghai and Hong Kong have always had a strange love-hate relationship. They are not quite competitors, but certainly not friends. When I first began reporting from China in 1948 a...
Half a century ago Shanghai was East Asia's undisputed hub of finance. These days the city once hailed as the Paris of the Orient is straining to reclaim its glorious past--and succeeding by many m...
Bustling stock markets may not be too far off for the People's Republic. Although its two fledgling securities exchanges -- Shanghai and Shenzhen -- list just 21 stocks between them, that number sh...
China's first stockbroker will begin operation in Shanghai next month, trading in the shares of just over ten local companies that have sold equity to the Chinese public . . . Just under 20 Shangha...
CHINA FEVER is easy to catch. Upbeat music from the American movie Flashdance greets arriving executives at Peking Airport. The new Great Wall Hotel, a U.S. joint venture, resembles the Hyatt Regen...
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