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April



  • CIH, the most deadly computer virus known in China, paralyzed hundreds of computers nationwide on April 26. The virus is known for its destructive force wrecked on hard disks.

  • Germany's trade and commercial center Nordrhein-Westfalen was recently on a promotional tour in Shanghai to boost economic ties with Shanghai.

  • Three murderers were executed last Friday immediately following an open trial at No. 2 Intermediate People's Court. Open trials have been practiced more and more throughout the country.

  • A celebration of tourism featuring wedding ceremonies will be held in seven cities in East China in October. These cities are Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Wuxi, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Shaoxing.

  • Mayor Xu Kuangdi of Shanghai has expressed to the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Peter Levene, great interest in furthering exchanges in finance and managerial expertise between the two cities.

  • The 11th Shanghai Sports Meeting was opened in the Shanghai Stadium over the last weekend. As many as 13,334 athletes from 46 local sports groups will participate in the month-long event.

  • Rising divorce rate is causing concern. Last year, 82,000 couples received marriage certificates while 13,000 divorced by agreement, up 21% over 1997.

  • The two black boxes aboard the crashed Korean Airline MD-11 cargo plane have been found. They will be delivered to US National Transportation Safety Board for study.

  • The British Center for Building and Construction will open its doors to businesses on April 30 during a Building Materials Trade Mission to China sponsored by the Sino-Britain Business Council.

  • A service center affiliated with the United Nations was set up in Shanghai on April 22 to provide information for local State-owned and foreign-funded enterprises.

  • Australian Tourist Commission officially opened its Shanghai Office on April 22. Australia is the first Western country to have been approved by the Chinese Government to be the destination of Chinese holiday-makers.

  • China Telecom, the telecomms giant in China, has started a new IDD service by issuing Yitong telephone cards that use IP (Internet Phone) technology allowing for long distance calls at half the previous charge.

  • This century's last tea gala in the city, the '99 Shanghai International Tea Culture Festival, will start on April 26 and will last for one week. Zhabei Park, the first national park dedicated to tea, has several tea cultural scenic spots.

  • All unlicensed barbershops, some of which are disguised brothels, will be banned by the end of this month, according to a recent conference of the municipal Administration for Trade and Commerce.

  • Shanghai is making final preparations of its garden entry into the '99 Kunming International Horticulture Exposition to be held in Yunnan Province on May 1.

  • Welfare facilities in Shanghai have progressed in the past 50 years, especially since the reform and opening-up of China. Today there are some 2.36 million people above the age of 60 in Shanghai, accounting for 19% of the total population.

  • On-line shopping in Shanghai has so far failed to spark enthusiasm from local residents, although experts predict that the nascent business has great potential. The major deterrent is said to be credit payment.

  • At least seven people were killed and 35 injured as a Korean Airlines cargo plane crashed on the afternoon on April 15, only minutes after it took off from Hongqiao International Airport.

  • Sun Microsystems had its first televised dialog with audiences in Shanghai on April 14 to discuss electronic commerce (or e-commerce) infrastructure.

  • Caohejing Hi-Tech Park exported goods worth US$100 million during the first quarter this year, up 40% over the same period last year.

  • Britain plans to introduce a new examination system into China to help people improve their English proficiency. The examination, called First Certificate English, will be held two to three times a year in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing.

  • The Convention Center, located at the foot of the Oriental Pearl Tower, will be the venue for the Fortune Global Forum to be held on September 27 to 30.

  • The city has reported negative population growth for the seventh consecutive year, the municipal government announced last week.

  • Farmers living in the outskirts of Shanghai continued to lead their counterparts in other parts of the country last year in earnings. The per capita annual incomes of Shanghai farmers were US$653 in 1998, up 2.5% from 1997.

  • Shanghai is to break new ground in the country, this time by broadcasting a series of sex education programs on its local TV station, the first time ever in China.

  • Shaghai is now digging the country's first trans-river pedestrian tunnel under the Huangpu River which flows through Shanghai and divides the city into two parts. Once completed, the tunnel can transport some 5,000 people every hour.

  • Two-thirds of the 285 vocational schools in Shanghai are expected to close by 2006 due to insufficient numbers of students. It seems that parets are less and less willing to have their kids educated in such schools.

  • The city's economy proceeded smoothly in the first quarter this year, but didn't develop as fast as expected. Its GDP grew by 8.1% to reach US$10 billion.

  • As the popularity of cordless phones balloons in Shanghai, the quality of phones has also become an increasingly pertinent issue. Consumers' complaints have also surged.

  • During the first three months this year, Shanghai's industrial sector achieved a total output worth US$16.09 billion, an 11.3% increase over the same period last year.

  • Shanghai General Motors said on April 8 that the retail prices of its three models range from US$38,400 to 44,600 with various option packages available.

  • Shanghai will hold an international festival between May 12 and 23 to show off fashions from home and abroad. Japan, the Republic of Korea and China's Hong Kong will organize delegations to attend the festival.

  • Shanghai is willing to forge closer economic ties with Egypt, said Mayor Xu Kuangdi in a meeting with visiting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

  • Shanghai Party Secretary Huang Ju spelt out the need for firm population management to match the city's economic development.

  • China's golden card network took another big step forward on April 7 to put 1,500 MasterCard ATMs (automatic teller machines) into operation in Shanghai.

  • Held every two years, "Shanghai Spring" is one of the country's earliest grand art festivals and has been playing an important role in enriching Shanghai's cultural life. This year's festival, the 18th since 1960, will also be the first among a string of celebrations to commemorate the city's 50th anniversary of liberation and the 50th National Day.

  • Uninet, the first Internet Service Provider (IPS) approved by Shanghai Postal and Telecommunication, is now notably popular with people of many nationalities in Shanghai.

  • The new Asia Journal of Andrology, the scientific study of human males, will start publication in June at the Shanghai Institute of Material-Medical under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  • The State will launch the second phase of its project this year to treat the pollution in the Taihu Lake reaches. More than US$36 million will be invested in the projects.

  • Residents in Pudong New Area can use natural gas for cooking late this month thanks to a project in the East China Sea that began sending gas to Shanghai on April 8.

  • The dominant role of men in China's economic life has been confirmed again by a recent survey that showed 71.3% of the investors in China's two stock exchanges last year were male.

  • Fortune Kindergarten, a Sino-French co-operative kindergarten established inside Fortune Mansion at Dongfang Road last April, was approved by the educational authorities to enroll both Chinese and foreign children.

  • Experts support the inclusion of safety education in pre-college education. A program to facilitate such learning was launched last week in the Oriental Pearl Tower, sponsored by Shanghai Otis Co., Ltd.

  • A horticultural training center, set up in Donghai State Farm, now offers education in Dutch flower and vegetable cultivation.

  • Shanghai has led the nation in setting up two expert commissions in a bid to provide fair judicial assessment system.

  • The number of Shanghai residents visiting neighboring areas to pay respects to decreased ancestors or relatives during the Qingming Festival period reached a record high.

  • Local shipbuilders are still having difficulties in receiving customers' orders due to the lingering Asian financial crisis.

  • More and more local citizens are moving into new houses through house-swapping with the help of Shanghai House-exchange Company. During the first quarter this year, the company signed contracts for more than 4186 suites.

  • As TV talk shows become a staple in China, the anchormen and anchorwomen of traditional news broadcasting are facing a new challenge. The suit-and-tie style is gradually being replaced by leisurely chat.

  • The Shanghai branch of The China Development Bank (CDB) is official opened and will act as a member of CDB's network consisting of 20 branches from China Investment Bank, which now operate under CDB's name.

  • Several multinational companies in Pudong New Area signed an agreement with Pudong Technical Supervision Bureau to initiate a campaign in fighting against fake products in the area.

  • Canada opened a new visitor visa office in Shanghai on April 1. The office is responsible for processing visitor visa applications for people living in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces.
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