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...Price paid for a pair of Michael Jordan's sneakers from his 1984 debut season in the NBA, in an online auction to benefit a children's hospital in Shanghai...
Their international bond goes beyond the panel where they met, they were both raised all over the globe—he primarily in Australia and she primarily in Asia. For their next step, the couple looked at complementing job offers in Shanghai and South Africa before deciding to live in Singapore, where she will work for Cambridge Associates and he will work in strategy for Bunge, an agribusiness firm...
...Hong Kong, the Municipal Drug Administration investigated 1,956 cases and shut down 38 underground producers and sellers between January and September of 2003. That's up from the 226 cases and 9 wholesalers busted in the whole of 2002. Pfizer recently signed an agreement with the city of Shanghai calling for cooperation between industry and government in the fight against fake drugs, the first such agreement ever, says John Theriault, head of the pharmaceutical giant's global security division...
...Discipline seemed rigid enough last week, as Guo spent a Wednesday afternoon grimly slicing through the water to prepare for an upcoming meet in Shanghai. She plunged into the pool over and over, surfacing only to hear terse criticism from her usually upbeat coach. A few meters from where Guo was practicing, six-year-old girls from the city tossed themselves off the vertiginous diving platform, their tiny bodies tumbling through the air at up to 60 km/h. The girls were all wearing plain, baggy, black swimsuits, and some looked longingly at their famous compatriot in her sleek, purple suit...
...partial to a drop of tea but fed up with the raucous atmosphere and chain-smoking laobaixing (the colloquial Chinese expression for the man in the street) that cram Shanghai's regular cafés, then check out the sedate and sequestered atmosphere of the Guyuan Antique Teahouse, tel: (86-21) 6445 4625. Inspired by Ming-dynasty architecture, the city's finest tea parlor is a classy joint where executives come to impress clients and contacts with China's most exclusive brews. Its imposing wooden gateway (200 years old and transported to Shanghai from culturally rich Shanxi province...