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Shanghai (Chinese: 上海; pinyin: Shànghǎi (help·info); Wu (Long-short): Zånhae; Shanghainese (IPA): [zɑ̃'he]), situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in East China, is the largest city of the People's Republic of China and the eighth largest in the world. Widely regarded as the citadel of China's modern economy, the city also serves as one of the most important cultural, commercial, financial, industrial and communications centers of China. Administratively, Shanghai is a municipality of the People's Republic of China that has province-level status. Shanghai is also one of the world's busiest ports, and became the largest cargo port in the world in 2005.

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Meet Mrs Mark Zuckerberg

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan at their wedding ceremony in Palo Alto. Photo: AP/Facebook The wedding of Mark Zuckerberg to Priscilla Chan last weekend in the backyard of their $US7 million home had al ...
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Canon Wonder Camera Concept unveiled at World Expo 2010

Canon Wonder Camera Concept unveiled at World Expo 2010
Canon is presenting a camera from the future at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. The Canon Wonder Camera concept is...
Read more Jul 6 2010, 5:11am CDT
 

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6 underrated war movies to see on Memorial Day

Source: MSN Entertainment

"Patton," "The Great Escape,"  and "Apocalypse Now" have justly earned a place among the greatest war movies ever made. These films capture the horror, the sacrifice -- and, yes, sometimes the excitement of battle. However, this Memorial Day, be ...
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China’s industrial firms’ profits down 2.2%

Source: GulfToday.ae

BEIJING: Chinese industrial companies’ profit growth fell in April, a government report showed on Sunday, as the nation’s slowing economy curbed demand. Earnings declined 2.2 percent from a year earlier to 407.6 billion yuan ($64 ...
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Analysis: Falling prices to kill off half of Chinese LED chipmakers

Source: International Business Times

In China , surplus capacity and sliding prices are sounding the death knell for half of the companies making light emitting diode (LED) chips used in Samsung television panels and Sharp computer monitors, with only the large, state-ba ...
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Source: Wall Street Journal

Switzerland is studying capital controls as a measure to fight a sharp rise in the Swiss franc in the event of a euro-zone collapse. The nation hasn't employed the measure since the 1970s. China's securities regulator said ...
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Solar power faces eclipse from US tariffs

Source: China Daily

Domestic industry battles to scale sunlit uplands, reports Xie Yu in Shanghai. It's hard not to notice the huge tilting solar walls at the headquarters of Suntech Power Holdings, the world's largest producer of ...
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China profits 'will take time'

Source: Today Online

SINGAPORE - EpiCentre Holdings says it will take some time before its expansion in China yields positive results. Executive chairman and CEO Jimmy Fong concedes it is a "difficult market to get into", and ...
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Not just a football story

Source: Today Online

In the photograph, a child stands beside his worried parents at Abidjan airport in the Ivory Coast. Five-year-old Didier Drogba was moving to France to live with an uncle, a professional footballer. The long flight, alone with his favourite t ...
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NBA eyes Singapore

Source: Today Online

SINGAPORE - The world's top basketball property, the NBA (National Basketball Association), is planning to establish a permanent base in Singapore to reach out to the more than half-a-billion people in South ...
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