China closes door on speculators

Home speculators will find it difficult to escape China's tougher criteria on second-home mortgages. Banks should consider both the mortgage and home purchase records of people applying for second mort …Read Full Story

Trunk call for kids

A total of 170 children from welfare houses, poor families, migrant schools and, disaster-stricken areas visited Shanghai Zoo yesterday, taking part in Dreamnight at the Zoo, an international event tha …Read Full Story

More stops for buses

All 20 Expo buses are now stopping at every stop along their routes, instead of just two or three main stops during their initial operation period. The change took place at the end of last month but ha …Read Full Story

Number of visitors tops 10m

Visitors pass by a sculpture paying homage to Expo volunteers in front of the Expo Theme Pavilion. They were among more than 510,000 Expo visitors yesterday. The total of 10 million visitors since the …Read Full Story

Our low-carbon future

The World Expo Shanghai 2010 will realize 60 to 70 percent of carbon offsetting before the event ends on October 31 and reach carbon equilibrium in four to five years afterward through low-carbon techn …Read Full Story

WWF's 5-year plan for China

Protecting the Yangtze River basin, increasing the population of wild tigers in China and tackling climate change are the top three tasks the World Wide Fund for Nature wants to achieve in the next fiv …Read Full Story

Queen in concert

Portugal celebrates its National Pavilion Day today with concerts by renowned fado singer Mariza. The first Portuguese artist to be nominated for Grammy Award, Mariza is a renowned interpreter of fado …Read Full Story

Locke puts priority on China-US cooperation

United States Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said in Shanghai yesterday that Sino-American ties should have more quid pro quo, while signalling that some trade barriers may be lifted. China needed to me …Read Full Story

China's got talented thieves, show learns

China's Got Talent, the authorized Chinese version based on the British talent show Britain's Got Talent, found its Internet mailbox raided and emptied on Tuesday afternoon, Shanghai-based Dragon TV of …Read Full Story

New Zealand ship puts in

The Royal New Zealand Navys Te Kaha pulls over at a dock on the Huangpu River yesterday afternoon for a six-day visit to the city. The crew will take a look at the World Expo site, particularly the New …Read Full Story