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THE USA Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 will feature a movie with cutting-edge technologies and Hollywood know-how that is expected to be as stunning as the 3D sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar," designers of the pavilion said yesterday. NBA stars Kobe Bryant and Earvin "Magic" Johnson, ...
ON 3 March, a World Expo tourism promotional meeting targeting the Japanese was held in Shanghai`s Hua Ting Hotel. On the occasion of the "2010 China Expo-Tourism" year, in order to attract more Japanese tourists to actively participate in Shanghai World Expo, Shanghai Municipal ...
THE second runway at Hongqiao International Airport will be put into use next Thursday, five days ahead of the opening of the airport`s new terminal. The airport will then have two runways and Shanghai will become the first city in China to have two airports and five runways. The ...
SHANGHAI`S oldest vehicle tunnel beneath the Huangpu River, Dapu Road Tunnel, is expected to fully reopen to traffic on Wednesday after seven months of renovation. It has been partially open for a month. A second tube next to the existing tunnel will open at the same time, ...
SHANGHAI Botanical Garden will reopen today after three months of restorations. The restorations included expanding the lake, and repaving all passageways, garden officials said yesterday. Several rivers were also dredged, allowing visitors to rent small boats to view flowers and ...
ITALIAN football champions Inter Milan are to visit the Italy Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 to meet their fans. While they`re here, they`ll also play against local Chinese clubs. The city of Milan is taking a special interest in the Expo because it is hosting the event in 2015. ...
SHANGHAI is planting a 4,000-square-meter forest in Xuhui District in which Expo visitors can buy trees to compensate for the carbon dioxide produced on their way here, local environment authorities said yesterday. The forest is 98.9 kilometers long and about 500 meters wide ...
VISITORS will be invited to watch, touch and recognize more than 60,000 seeds of different plants as the core exhibition of the United Kingdom Pavilion at the World Expo 2010. They will be surrounded by the seeds in a 20-meter-high hollow cube-like structure with the seeds ...
THE World Expo organizer has appointed 155 hotels to take staff of participant countries, journalists, performers and volunteers. The average price of budget hotels will be 276 yuan (US$40) per night and that of five-star hotels 1,252 yuan. Prices are decided according to average ...
AS of now, the overall construction work of the Shanghai World Expo Park project is 90% complete. On the eve of the 100-day countdown to the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, the World Expo Park construction project has been thrown into the spotlight of the public. The Secretary for ...
RECENTLY, the 2010 Shanghai World Expo officially announced its Expo water transport program. The Expo will set up seven Expo water gates, providing visitors with entry tickets not only with land transport but also water access to the Park Area by means of passenger ferries. At ...
GIANT strawberries, flowers and trees will feature in the Russia Pavilion to show a comfortable city as seen through children`s eyes, an official revealed yesterday. Visitors will travel along the path as if in a fairy tale, said Vladimir Strashko, Russia`s commission general for ...
DURING the Shanghai World Expo, a series of "Global Forums" will be held at the United Nations Pavilion. The diverse topics covered by those Forums include urban development, health science, environment protection, public welfare and charities as well as a host of other areas. It ...
VISITORS to the France Pavilion`s exhibition will feel like they are paying a visit to the Musee d`Orsay in Paris, famed as "the most beautiful museum in Europe," a top official said yesterday. Seven of the museum`s best-known masterpieces are coming to Shanghai, including work ...
CITY traffic authorities have unveiled an online electronic map for local traffic information during the World Expo. The address is http://www.jt.sh.cn/shanghaimap/index.html. The English version of the map gives out information about subways, railways, long-distance bus stations...
A South Korea folk exhibition began at Zhongshan Park yesterday. It will continue until the Spring Festival. Meanwhile, the Kobe Food festival will start in Luwan, Jing`an and Huangpu districts this week to display the cuisine of Kobe, Japan, according to its organizers.
PUDONG International Airport has three new international airline routes as of yesterday, says official with Pudong Frontier Inspection Station. The new routes are Shanghai to Hanoi; Shanghai to Ho Chi Minh City; and Shanghai to Bandar Seri Begawan in Brunei.
DIRECT flights between Mexico and Shanghai, suspended last April because of an outburst of swine flu in Mexico, officially resumed yesterday with the arrivals and departures of 419 passengers at the Pudong International Airport, border inspectors said. AeroMexico plans two ...
AFTER a 33 month-long careful and intensive construction, the comprehensive renovation project on the Bund area has recently been completed for final inspection and it is scheduled to open to the public in the morning of 28 March. The newly-built waterfront area of the Bund ...
CHINA`S biggest botanic park will open in late April, covering 210 hectares near Sheshan Hill in southwest Shanghai`s Songjiang District. Entry fees to Chenshan Botanic Park will be about 70 yuan (US$10.20) but under 50 yuan during its trial run. The price may later vary ...
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