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    Shanghai – Overview

    Shanghai’s skyline is a mix of state-of-the-art glass-and-steel skyscrapers, delightful 1930s European architecture and tree-lined avenues.

    Home to 20 million people, Shanghai has had its fair share of revolutions, rejuvenations and risqué behaviour. In its 1930’s heyday, it was a playground for foreign adventurers, well-to-do European party girls and social-climbing Chinese. Not a lot has changed: Shanghai is still smitten with the West and welcomes the latest technology, fads and fashions with open arms. It is a consumer society at heart, but don’t worry, traces of Old Shanghai still wait to be uncovered.

    Whether you’re sipping a cocktail overlooking the Bund or sampling dumplings at a roadside stall, the view is the same: a city on the go.

    Money: Chinese Renminbi (RMB).

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    Lingering customers just one hurdle for Starbucks China growth

    LOS ANGELES/BEIJING - Starbucks Corp has ambitious expansion plans in China, but like any big new emerging market there are teething problems, not least of which is that customers love it so much they stay for hours and hours and sometimes don't even buy a drink.

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    Formula One chiefs to make final call on Bahrain race

    DUBAI/SHANGHAI - Formula One organisers are to make a final decision within days on whether to go ahead with the Bahrain Grand Prix as they consider whether anti-government protests, which prevented last year's running of the premier motor race, will flare up again.

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    Bahrain hangs over F1 as teams head for China

    LONDON - Formula One teams headed to China on Monday still unsure whether their return trip would take in troubled Bahrain for the following grand prix next week amid safety fears and increasingly loud calls for that race to be cancelled.

    Play tells tale of Jewish refugees in WW2 Shanghai

    SHANGHAI - The time: World War Two. The place: Shanghai, where more than 30,000 Jews were sheltered by the Chinese during the Japanese occupation -- a saga now dramatised in a play that aims to highlight a little-known episode in history.

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    Court says Apple can sell iPads in Shanghai

    SHANGHAI - A Shanghai court has rejected a request by a Chinese technology firm to stop Apple Inc selling its iPad tablet computers in the city, a source said, part of a wider battle for Apple over the trademark in China.

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    Who's where in China's financial sector

    SHANGHAI - China's economic planning agency and the Shanghai government have published a plan laying out the next few years of financial innovation in Shanghai, with the aim of turning it into a global financial centre by 2020.

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