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FREEZING weather will continue this week as more northern cold fronts descend on Shanghai, forecasters said yesterday. Downtown temperatures fell as low as 4.4 degrees below zero yesterday morning - the lowest since winter began, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau said. Yesterday's high was just 0.9 degrees Celsius. Rain, snow and ice are forecast through Friday in many parts of China and could disrupt travel plans for millions who aim to get on the road ahead of the Spring Festival holiday. Shanghai is expected to see some rain and sleet this week with temperatures falling below zero. "This could cause some trouble to transport in the lead up to the Spring Festival," the weather bureau said. Cloudy to overcast conditions are forecast for today, with low temperatures down to minus 3 degrees in urban areas. The mercury is forecast to fall even lower in the suburbs, down to as low as minus six degrees. This could create serious icy conditions, the bureau warned. The Pudong ...

Old and New, Old City, Shanghai (Holga) SHANGHAI is determined to improve public transport and reduce road congestion in the next few years but has no plan to change the monthly auction for car license plates, the city's transport bureau director said yesterday. "Providing a more convenient public transport network is our top initiative to relieve urban traffic pressure," Sun Jianping, director of the Shanghai Communications, Transport and Port Administration Bureau, told Shanghai Daily yesterday. dream island Lujiazui skyline from another view angle. Color cast at corners of the image is really hard to remove. "People can expect to see more Metro lines built with connecting bus routes. But stronger controls to discourage the use of cars and relieve traffic congestion are not possible in the next few years." Beijing recently enacted measures to ease its traffic gridlock. It introduced a lottery system to issue new car plates and occasionally uses traffic restric...

ravikjolly has added a photo to the pool: Camera: Holga Film: Fuji 100 Acros It was cold that day.

This building stands in the middle of a large demolition site on Laiyi Matou Street in Shanghai. But it is in pretty bad condition so it is hard to believe it is gonna stay there long. Taken with a Seagull TLR 4B-1 Roll #15 - Photo 03 - Kodak Ektacolor Pro 160 -- Woods

Lane houses east of Yu Yuan are crowded and devoid of facilities. The lady cooking in a little open-air kitchen built to the side of her house observed that the main reason behind their squalor lies in the one-party system. "It leads to corruption and unfulfilled promises," she pointed out.

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Expert uses a poison as therapy SHANGHAI took 57 prizes at this year's State Scientific and Technological Awards with 55 of them projects initiated or supported by local experts. Top award winner Wang Zhenyi, 86, who still works as a doctor at the city's Ruijin Hospital, was honored for research that has greatly improved the survival chances of people with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). His therapy, which combines all-trans retinoic acid - a chemotherapy drug - and arsenic has maintained a 95 percent survival rate among patients, making APL the first treatable adult leukemia. Arsenic is famous as a poison but has long been an ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine. In APL, there is a drop in the production of normal red blood cells and platelets. Until the 1970s, APL was 100 percent fatal and there was no effective treatment. Experts at the Shanghai Institute of Hematology tested Wang's treatment and found that the arsenic was targeting and killing specific protein...