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Agencies charging for needless visa 'rush' service - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
"If we fail to get a quick interview, we'll give back the urgent fee," said a customer service officer with the company, who wouldn't give her name. Similar agencies also claimed that they can arrange interviews faster as long as people pay, ...
Philippines' National Sportsfest breeding ground for world-class athletes ... - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
... government is looking forward to discovering a new batch of talent athletes to represent the country in international competitions at the upcoming Palarong Pambansa (National Sportsfest) 2012, a senior government official said on Saturday.
US solar panel ruling harms both sides: MOC - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
"The US government should consider the long-term picture and prudently handle trade frictions," said an MOC official who refused to be named. The remark came after the US Department of Commerce on Tuesday announced the results of a preliminary ...
Laundry shops under scrutiny after media report - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
Fornet's local manager who refused to be identified said the Beijing headquarters is now making an investigation after the CBN report and their Shanghai shops allow clients to check their workshops as a company policy. The manager said they make ...
Philippine gov't introduces locally-developed flood warning system - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
17 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine government has introduced a locally-developed flood warning system that offers a more efficient disaster mitigation and monitoring mechanism, a senior government official said on Tuesday. Department of Science and ...
Canadian sublet rooms, fled with at least 300000 yuan, victims say - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
He is a scammer and he ran away, owing me tens of thousands yuan," said a landlord victim who refused to be named. "He rented the apartments, then he sublet them and disappeared with the money he owed to me and to the poor tenants, but I will find him. ...
PBOC may halt 3-month bills sale - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
The central bank didn't gauge demand for the securities yesterday morning, said two traders who declined to be named as the information isn't public. The seven-day repurchase rate, a measure of interbank funding availability, hit 5 percent yesterday as ...
Singapore company in talks with employees to resolve protest over relocation - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
About 200 workers participated in the protests, complaining that they had been unfairly treated by the company, according to a local labor official who refused to be identified. "Some were upset about the longer distance of the new site and insisted on ...
Philippines halts deployment of workers to Syria - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
18 (Xinhua) -- The Philippine government has imposed a temporary ban against labor deployment to Syria due to increasing violence there, a senior government official said Thursday. Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said that decision to halt the ...
Train staff smoking in carriage come under flak - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
A passenger who refused to be named said a 57-year-old smoker first apologized to them for breaking the anti-smoking rule, followed by his co-workers. But the passenger said he still felt angry. "This was not an isolated incident. ...
1 killed, 3 injured by roadside bombing in Baghdad - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
The official, who refused to be named, said security forces rushed to the scene and cordoned it off to transport the body of the victim to the morgue and the wounded to hospital for treatment. War-battered Iraq has seen increase of violence recently, ...
Guard held over sex assaults on kindergarten girls - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
"My daughter cried to beg him to stop as that hurt, but he kept doing that and threatened her not to tell others, touching her body for one year," one mother, who refused to give her name, told a television news program yesterday. ...
Yuan central parity rate hits new high - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
Media quoted a PBOC official, who refused to be identified, as saying on Wednesday that China plans to widen the daily fluctuation band for the yuan-dollar exchange rate to enhance flexibility and curb speculation. On May 21, 2007, the PBOC widened the ...
Anger over fake walls - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
"It's a waste of taxpayers' money to place such a fake atop the genuine relics," said a local resident who refused to be named. The city walls in Zhengzhou date back to the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC). Their run-down state, however, compelled the ...
14 state firms exit property under order - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
FOURTEEN of the 78 state-owned firms whose core business is not real estate pulled out of the property market last year following a central government order in March, a senior government official said ...
Sex websites turn to English to escape watchdogs - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
"We have younger girls, 17 or 18, but the 22-year-old girls are most mature and playful," said the manager, who refused to give her name. ...
China said to trade onshore yuan options in Q1 - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
... option trading on the mainland early next year after soliciting opinions of commercial banks on the plan, according to people familiar with the matter. ...
All-woman urban patrol disbanded - Shanghai Daily (subscription)
The 13 women on the team have been reassigned to other neighborhood law enforcement teams in Songjiang District, a government official said yesterday. ...