Shanghai Airlines will leave Star Alliance at the end of October, after bigger rival China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) took it over for $1.3 billion last year, state media said on Thursday.

Shanghai-based China Eastern (0670.HK) joined SkyTeam earlier this year, a global airline alliance that includes China Southern Airlines (1055.HK)(600029.SS), China’s largest carrier by fleet size.

Restoration of Shanghai’s parade of landmark buildings – the Bund – passes a key milestone this week as the famed Peace Hotel throws open its doors.

When it was completed in 1929, tycoon Victor Sassoon’s art deco hotel-residence, known as the Cathay Hotel, was among the most famous properties worldwide. Sassoon lived beneath its green pyramid roof and outfitted rooms with luxurious details like Lalique glass in shaving mirrors. The hotel’s downstairs Jazz Bar set the stage for Shanghai’s jazz age.

The internationalization of the yuan will be pushed ahead with Hong Kong and Shanghai working together as offshore and onshore markets, officials of both cities said yesterday – on the fifth anniversary of the yuan exchange rate regime reform.

Shanghai vice mayor Tu Guangshao said in a financial forum that the two cities could boost the mainland currency’s internationalization process.

World Expos were originally created in the 1800s to show off technical innovations in industrializing countries. By the late 1900s many displays were accurately predicting what the world would look like in a few decade’s time. So what is the Shanghai 2010 Expo predicting for the future.

Most of this 2010 pavilion is not open to the public. The real technology is hidden in a VIP room where Cisco receives government delegations from China and abroad every week. There they discuss turning this vision into reality.

“We are here to show how IT can play a vital role in the mass urbanization to come in China,” says Anthony Elvey, Cisco’s World Expo 2010 director.

Agricultural Bank of China (AgBank) [ABC.UL] said on Wednesday it was pricing its Shanghai initial public offering at the top of an indicated range, confirming what sources told Reuters a day earlier.

It also said it would exercise an option to expand its Shanghai share offering by 15 percent, confirming a Reuters report earlier on Wednesday.

AgBank will sell 25.57 billion yuan-denominated A-shares at 2.68 yuan ($0.40) apiece, at the top of the 2.52-2.68 yuan range, the Beijing-based lender said in a statement to the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Dateline Shanghai—I now have the perfect formula for someone trying to lose weight by eating. United Airlines clearly has a weight control kitchen. Going and coming restrict and limit yourself to three things no matter what else they try to serve you: the fruit plate, the heated croissant and any of the wines. Nothing else is digestible, hence a sure formula for losing weight.

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Shanghai, June 22 (CNA) The Taiwan Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo is set to greet its 200,000th visitor Wednesday, 53 days into the expo, the pavilion’s manager said Tuesday.

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EVA Air has added six flights a week between Taipei and Shanghai, using airports near both cities’ downtown centers.

According to EVA Air, the new service from Taipei’s Sungshan Airport to Shanghai’s Hongqiao International Airport started June 14, 2010. It complements EVA’s current nine flights a week between Taoyuan International Airport and Pudong International Airport, and makes same-day round trips between Taipei and Shanghai easier and more convenient for business or leisure.

When we arrived in Shanghai last week we told anyone that would listen that we planned on spending some time over at the World Expo. Immediately, everyone we told had the same ominous look on their face as they wished us the best of luck. Their grim look was followed by stories of heat exhaustion, endless queues, pavilion confusion, and yes, even folks faking disabilities to bypass long lines.

A Chinese-born Australian activist has been missing for more than a day after making a one-man protest in Shanghai, a campaign organiser says.

The man, Zhang Xiaogang, had changed his name to get into the country because of a ban.

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