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Shrinking man’s carbon footprint a continuing Expo legacy

The earliest days of international expositions stressed concepts such as trade and progress, but in recent decades, they’ve become more and more focused on environmentalism: not just educating the public, but exploring what might be done to undo the da…

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Shanghai-hound: K-9s on the beat

Man’s best friend is likely to be terrorists’ worst enemy this summer courtesy of a police dog detachment dealing with emergencies and other Expo-related threats, similar to the team employed two years ago for the Olympics in Beijing.

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Ticket purchase more convenient under real-name system

Passengers wait to depart aboard the train coded L7688 at Guangzhou Railway Station in the capital city of south China’s Guangdong Province Jan.

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Taiwan petrochemicals need China trade pact to survive its economy

(ChinaPost.com.tw) – About a year ago, the Taiwan Synthetic Resins Manufacturers Association (TSRMA) held a press conference for the first time in 20 years to ask the government to save the local petrochemical industry from “a life or death situation…

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Time for city to make next leap, remove roadblocks: Recruiters

Recruiter Shi Lei sees the 2010 Shanghai Expo as a potential catalyst for companies to embrace greener technologies and reduce their carbon emissions, while also creating tens of thousands of new jobs.

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Feeling jaded? Head to New Zealand

Visitors may be able to grasp a sense of what it feels like to be a Kiwi simply by rubbing a large piece of indigenous jade at the entrance gates of the island country’s pavilion when the Expo opens in May.

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Batteries included: Police cars go green

Visitors will get the chance to zip around the Expo site on some environmentally minded wheels starting in May.

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Washington panda cub to be shipped via FedEx to China

(ChinaPost.com.tw) – United States (U.S.)-born panda cub, Tai Shan, will next week leave the National Zoo in Washington and head in grand style for a new life in China — on board a Federal Express cargo plane, officials said.

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China gov’t opens cracks in its culture of secrecy

(ChinaPost.com.tw) – The Chinese businessman battled for years to get cities to reveal their budgets, but his quest seemed quixotic in a country notorious for keeping citizens in the dark.

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China activist to end protest at Tokyo airport

(ChinaPost.com.tw) – A Chinese activist who spent nearly 90 days camping out at Tokyo’s international airport after being barred from going home said Sunday that he was ending his protest after Chinese officials visited him.

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