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  • Hurdler Merritt gears up for new Diamond League season

    American hurdler Aries Merritt, who won his first Olympic gold in London and set a world record in the men's 110m hurdles last year, has geared up for the 2013 International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League Shanghai leg. "I will try to start the season in my best form and hopefully I'll be in my best so I won't disappoint the fans that come to watch the competition," ...

  • Chinese ambassador urges U.S. to be truly neutral on Sino-Japanese territorial dispute

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  • Driver in Zhejiang SUV crash that killed 7 suspected of drunk driving

    The driver of an Audi Q5 sports utility vehicle (SUV) that was involved in a collision that left seven people dead in east China's Zhejiang Province is suspected of drunk driving and being unlicensed, police said on Sunday. The incident happened around midnight on Saturday in the economic and technological development zone of Wenzhou City, killing seven passengers of the SUV and injuring ...

  • Shanghai Peoples Square metro station offers free concerts to passengers

    People's Square attracts audiences that are both keen and curious. It could be a jazz piano solo, a classical sonata or traditional Chinese bamboo flute music. Whatever your taste, free concerts in the grand hall of People's Square metro station in Shanghai have been offering a diverse range of music since the start of the year. Set against a noisy backdrop, the concerts have ...

  • 5.1-magnitude quake hits Chinas Yellow Sea CENC

    A 5.1-magnitude quake jolted China's Yellow Sea at 6:02 am Saturday Beijing Time, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.The epicenter, with a depth of 8 km, was monitored at 37.7 degrees north latitude and 124.7 degrees east longitude, the center ...


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Movie Review

The Man in the Iron Mask

"The Man in the Iron Mask," based on the classic novel by Alexandre Dumas, is a well-made adventure film that doesn't have much adventure. It has a lot of beautiful French locations, a stunning A-list cast of actors, and technical merit oozing from every corner, but it never really grabs hold of you the way a good swashbuckling adventure should. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the ... ...

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  • Shanghai to offer 24-hour PM2.5 forecast

    Shanghai will start issuing PM2.5 forecasts later this year, initially offering 24-hour predictions before going to 48-hour forecasts, Zhang Quan, director of the Shanghai Environmental Protection Bureau, said ...

  • Leaders in luxury travel meet in Shanghai

    /enpproperty--> The International Luxury Travel Market Asia 2013 will be held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center from June 3 to 6. The event welcomes 490 luxury travel buyers and agents representing high-net-worth individuals from across the Asia-Pacific region, to meet with the nearly 500 contemporary and classic luxury travel suppliers from more than 70 countries. It enables ...

  • Metro station music to Shanghais ears

    /enpproperty--> People's Square attracts audiences that are both keen and curious It could be a jazz piano solo, a classical sonata or traditional Chinese bamboo flute music. Whatever your taste, free concerts in the grand hall of People's Square metro station in Shanghai have been offering a diverse range of music since the start of the year. Set against a noisy ...

  • Gillis Sizzles at the Byron Nelson Chinas Guan Fades

    (Reuters) - American journeyman Tom Gillis rocketed into the early clubhouse lead in Friday's second round of the Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas, where China's 14-year-old Guan Tianlang was certain to miss the cut. Gillis, bidding for his first PGA Tour title after spending much of his golfing career competing on the lower tier circuits, fired a sparkling seven-under-par 63 ...

  • Google Maps helps Chinese man find home 23 years after abduction

    There, in the city of Sanming, Mr Luo was raised by adoptive parents. But, according to a report in Fujian's Strait News, he longed to find his biological ...

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