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.

Last week I was in Shanghai for a Sister City’s mission and the 30th anniversary of our Sister City relationship. The Shanghai food experience is a knock off of what you find here, More >

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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John Woo’s poetically choreographed action sequences may not exactly be in keeping with Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s sensibility (his cinematic language is more in the lines of Wong Kar Wai’s brooding frames) but next month Chowdhury will sincerely hope that Woo relates to his film, Antaheen. After all, as the festival director of the 13th Shanghai International Festival Woo plays an important role in shaping Chowdhury’s reputation in the international market.

A world expo, let’s be frank, is an exercise in showing off.

For the host city, it is a chance to show that it has the wherewithal and organisational skills to pull off such a major undertaking.

And for the countries taking part, nearly 200 in Shanghai’s case, it is a chance to portray themselves as beautiful, progressive and welcoming. Each in its own way, of course, in pavilions which are ever-changing but somehow always the same.

“Bulgarian Curiosities” – this is the sign hanging above the Bulgarian pavilion at the Expo. In the foreground, near the kiosk, two dummies dressed in national costumes are propped. On both sides around the entrance there are two old-fashioned window panes with all kinds of old and new coins, postal stamps, maps; inside on display is everything that could be purchased from our country women in the last years – embroidered towels, handkerchiefs, socks, earrings, rings and hundreds of other trinkets peasant women use to adorn themselves. More >

IT is the biggest and most expensive party to which you have ever been invited, and almost certainly the oddest – with buildings shaped like rabbits and apples, Copenhagen’s Little Mermaid on show, and violin-playing robots to serenade you.

From next Saturday Shanghai will welcome an estimated 70 million visitors to the six-month event expected to cost $4.3 billion. Wen Jiabao, the country’s premier, has described it as the fulfilment of a 100-year-old dream.