Shanghai Government

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This photo illustration shows Facebook’s Colorful Balloons app (left) next to its Moments app (right) at an office in Beijing on August 15, 2017. Photograph: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images
Facebook tests way into China via secret photo-sharing app

A photo-sharing app has appeared on Apple’s App Store in China that looks exactly like Facebook’s Moments app, and analysts say it may be a way for th(...)

A Tesla Model S electric car with water bottles at the world’s biggest electric vehicle rally, the Wave Trophy, in Zurich, Switzerland, earlier this month. Photograph: Moritz Hager/Reuters
Tesla exploring local manufacturing in China to reduce its cost base

Tesla Inc said it’s working with the Shanghai government to explore local manufacturing in China, a move that would allow the electric-car maker to ac(...)

Paramilitary police officers at the location where at least 36 people were killed in a stampede incident during a New Year’s celebration on the Bund in Shanghai. Police have denied the incident was caused by a rush to pick up fake money. Photograph: Aly Song/Reuters.
Police deny claim fake money caused Shanghai stampede

Chinese police have denied that a stampede which killed at least 36 people during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Shanghai was caused by people rushin(...)

In demand: Rising incomes in China are driving demand for consumer goods, and food is very high on people’s shopping list
Asia Briefing: Future could be Bright for Irish food companies as Shanghai takes an interest

Speaking of acquisitions, there has been a lot of speculation that the Shanghai government-backed dairy and consumer products company, Bright F(...)

Asia Briefing: Free-trade zones at heart of drive to open economy to overseas investment

A regular theme in development plans unveiled by the Chinese government – and Irish readers will see elements of Shannon in its heyday here – is to se(...)

A worker in protective clothing prepares to haul away dead pigs pulled from a river along Zhonglian village of Jinshan district in Shanghai. The number of dead pigs found in the Shanghai river that provides drinking water to the Chinese financial hub has risen to almost 15,000. Photograph: AP
Chinese seek answers as more floating pig carcasses found in ‘hog wash scandal’

CLIFFORD COONAN Nearly two weeks after officials began pulling pig carcasses out of the Huangpu, t(...)

Pigs on a farm in the Zhulin village of Jiaxing. Photograph: Reuters
Thousands of pig carcasses removed from key Chinese river
  • World
  • March 13, 2013, 15:48

Hundreds more dead pigs have been pulled from the river that provides drinking water to Shanghai, China ’s financial hub, bringing the total to mor(...)