Shanghai goes the extra smile
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Eager to put on its best face for foreign guests ahead of the 2010 World Expo, Shanghai is sending teams of "smiling volunteers" onto the streets to teach stony-faced citizens to beam at strangers.
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For first time visitors to China, one of the most stunning entry points is Shanghai. The view from the mouth of the Yangze River, which looks out over Shanghai and other cities,  reveals an incredible urban and industrial panorama, clearly one of the most rapidly developing areas among all the cities of the world.  And yet . . . The Chinese have described themselves as "A plate of scattered sand grains" that would never join or unite with each other.  Piset, in his latest Awakening Dragon column, tells the story of Two Bridges to illustrate just some of the underlying dynamics of China's explosive economic growth.
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There was a glow to every face in Beaver Stadium, a look of relief dissolving any despair that might have remained. Those happy expressions of players and fans carried an optimistic belief -- that this was
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Zhang Yimou's new film is even more likeable than his previous hit Hero.
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FOR the past two years, Asian stock markets have been high on the favoured list for Britainâs pension and life assurance funds. Asia, particularly China, has offered the double attraction of strong current
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The victory heightens expectations for Chinaâs upcoming game against Brazil, the Group D favorite.
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What can the teams expect in Shanghai? Pat Symonds explains the engineers' preparations.
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It seemed only Michael Schumacher and red-hot Ferrari could give China a real thrill at the upcoming inaugural Formula one event in Shanghai, an alien territory for one of the most glamorous sports in the world.
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After the recent tumult in the Chinese market, some rapidly growing companies look even more attractive.
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The company impresses the Street with strong earnings, an optimistic outlook, and a toehold abroad.
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A success both on and off the track, Sunday&#39;s Chinese GP showed Formula One there is life outside Europe. Rubens Barrichello roared from pole position to claim an historic win at the first-ever Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday.
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By Calum MacLeod  CHONGMING ISLAND, China -- At the mouth of the Yangtze River, an hour by ferry from Shanghai, a new kind of Chinese city will rise from the mudflats and wetlands.
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The power meal of a rising urban class is found in one lake near Shanghai.
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THE race may be on only this Sunday, but already, Shanghai is in high gear for Formula One. For one thing, the organisers of the first-ever Chinese Grand Prix had no problem filling the seats in their enormous stands.
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German engineer Michael Bosch is not fazed by the lack of a gym and other creature comforts at his budget hotel in a converted Shanghai office building. He's stayed at such hotels on nearly a dozen trips to Chinese cities.
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Travel: Paris is all understated chic while the Chinese have taken kitsch consumerism to their hearts ...
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The 11th World Computer-Bridge Championship was held in Shanghai this month.