For most time of the year, Shanghai is an extremely crowded city. But there is one exception, which is the Chinese New Year holiday. Statistics show that till yesterday, 6.15 million people have left Shanghai. This number includes the people who took trains, buses and planes. Those who drove out of Shanghai were not included. So a lot more than 6 million people have left Shanghai!
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There are no doubts that Nicolas Anelka, the well-known France striker, is a very good football player. But 10 million euroes a year? A lot of people would think that those people at Shenhua Club were crazy. Well, maybe they are not! The Anelka deal is already paying off, even before he actually arrives!
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Ever wondered how many "laowai" there are in Shanghai? Today Shanghai government sheded some light on this. According to their data from the year 2010, there are 208.3 thousand people living in Shanghai are from outside of mainland China. And 68.7% of them are foreigners. The number would 143 thousand.
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A terrible scene happened at No.108 Wan Yu Street (万裕街108号), which is close to the Cool Docks, yesterday morning. Dozens of people with iron clubs and hammers broke into a bath house, savagely bashing and smashing everything they saw. When they left, the bath house was severely damaged. A magazine office at the third floor became an innocent victim.

The aftermath looked horrible. On the first floor,
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Another one of the big moves for Shanghai Shenhua football club (上海申花) has come to reality. Jean Tigana, the 56 years old France coach, has arrived in Shanghai and signed a one year contract with Shenhua. At a press conference held last night, Tigana said:"I felt fortunate that I did well during the transition from a player to a coach. I coached in places like England, Turkey, learned different cultures and ways of thinking. I think coming to China this time will be an exciting and wonderful experience."
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This year Shanghai metro system has seen quite a bit trouble. It's now the end of the year, and it seems trouble has not stopped coming yet. As early as 6am today, the epic "signal system malfunction" hit line 9, causing the whole line to be running irregularly. The interval between trains were at least 10 minutes instead of usual 4~5 minutes. At many stations, people were having difficulties getting on the trains and started complaining.

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Rumors of Nicolas Anelka coming to Shanghai Shenhua have been around for quite a while. Although a lot of people did not believe it would really happen, it turns out that Shenhua club has cut the deal with Anelka! The Chelsea striker has signed a two-year contract with Shenhua club, confirmed by multiple medias. Some say that the annual salary of Anelka will be around 10.6 million euros.

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At the end of every year in Shanghai, especially the new year's eve, there usually would be a lot of promotions in most shopping malls. This year however, it seems the promotions are coming much earlier. Just a few days into December, PCD Stores (巴黎春天), who have four department stores in Shanghai, have started their first wave end of year promotions on third of December. Lots of people went crazy for the promotions, and by just looking at the pictures, it looks almost like madness!

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If you have stayed in Shanghai for a few years, you probably have figured that it is a bit too warm this Autumn. November will come very soon and it still feels almost "hot" in the noon! Turns our that it is actually more than "a little too warm". According to Shanghai government, this may be the warmest Autumn in 138 years, since the first year the temperature data started being recorded!

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Wait an hour for a free cup of coffee, would you ever do anything like this? A lot of people would probably say no. But how many would be willing to do this in Shanghai? Well, the title already told about it.

The day before yesterday, a new coffee shop near Jing An Temple used this as a promotion method. From 12:30 to 13:30, anybody can get a "free" cup of Latte using his/her business as an exchange. The coffee was worth 25RMB. It turned out to be a very succesful promotion, probably because the owner had spreaded out the news on the Internet before the promotion actually started. At about 12:20, there was a long line of about 300~400 people waiting for the coffee!

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6am, Oct 11 2009, a loud thump woke up quite a few people in Wenhua Garden residence compound. They soon found there was a body lying on the ground close to a car with some indents. Apparently he jumped off the building and then hit the car before he landed on the ground. It was Mr.Zhou who lived on the third floor in building 36.
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Recently Shanghai railway bureau reported that the high speed railway between Shanghai and Beijing will be completed by 2011. It will take only four hours then to reach Beijing from Shanghai. Now it takes even 12 hours for the express trains which do not stop between Shanghai and Beijing.
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During a meeting held by Shanghai government yesterday, Shanghai Public Health Organization declared that Shanghai were going to put more efforts on prohibiting smoking in public between 2009 and 2011.
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Recently, China Unicom, one of the three cell phone service providers of China, has confirmed that its 3G service will be launched in Shanghai around May 17, the World Telecom Day. More

The Oriental Pearl TV Tower(东方明珠电视塔) had been the tallest building of Shanghai for many years since it was built in 1994. It is 468 meters high. In 2008, Shanghai World Financial Center (环球金融中心) was built and became the new tallest building. Its height is 492 meters. However, this record is not going to be held long. More

Most Chinese tend to be a little traditional and conservative. So performance art was seldom seen in China. Shanghai was not an exception. However, recently a great deal of performance art has been seen in Shanghai metro.

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Rumors came true. Istan(伊势丹) on Middle Huai Hai Road(淮海中路), one of the first foreign department stores in Shanghai that has been operating for more than 15 years, will be closed at the end of 2008. The evacuation from the building will start from Dec 14 and Dec16 will be the last day of Estan Middle Huai Hai Road.

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Lots of residents in multiple areas of Shanghai smelled something pungent in the air. A few people actually felt a little sick after smelling that and went to hospital. The smell lasted a few hours and then faded away.
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Zhu Jia Jiao (朱家角) is the closest old town to urban Shanghai. Other old towns like Zhou Zhuang(周庄), Tong Li(同里) or Xi Tang(西塘) are a lot furthur away. Recently the administration of Zhu Jia Jiao has decided to stop charging for entry fee any more.
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2008 Shanghai Biennale opened 9/9/2008 in Shanghai Art Museum. It attracted a lot of visitors and looked like going to be a succesful show. But something unexpected happpened just two days after the opening. Irritated by visitors writing and painting on his work, the Slovakian artist Roman Ondak decided to quit the Biennale with his work. The area where used to be his work has been empty and sealed.
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