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2009. 31 October
by Fernando Ferreira (macaudailytimes.com.mo) The tender regarding the two production companies that were chosen to provide conceptual services for the interior of Macau’s Pavilion for Expo 2010, for which they received about MOP67 million, was an invitation tender but also ‘open to the participation of other companies that weren’t invited’, said a coordinating officer for the Expo in Shanghai (GPPMEMS) yesterday when contacted by MDTimes.
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1202. Public Pajamas Persist in Shanghai
2009. 30 October
Planet Shanghai, Justin Guariglia, Chronicle Books (2008)by Bai Lin
(blogs.wsj.com) Government memo to pajama-wearing Shanghainese, whether shopping, gossiping, playing mahjong or walking dogs in their sleepwear: Get dressed.
Shanghai itself has been getting new coats of paint in the run-up to the 2010 World Expo,
Click here >> more info...1203. Kung fu masters set for Expo
2009. 30 October
by Yang Jian (shanghaidaily.com) Visitors to the 2010 Shanghai World Expo will be able to see the invulnerable "iron skin" and the invincible 18 bronze monks from China's Shaolin Temple.
And they'll also be treated to qinggong, the Wudang Taoist Temple's "light body skill" that can help people vault over walls.
Masters from the country's centuries-old and most famous martial arts groups will also teach
Click here >> more info...1204. EVA Airways, Shanghai To Promote Flights Ahead Of Expo
2009. 29 October
by Alex Pevzner(online.wsj.com) EVA Airways Corp. (2618.TW) is working with Shanghai's government to promote flights between North America and the Chinese city ahead of the Expo 2010 Shanghai, in the hope of capturing a bigger share of the North American market and expanding cross-strait travel, EVA Executive Vice-president K.W. Nieh said Thursday. Click here >> more info...
1205. Package tour of Shanghai Expo
2009. 29 October
by Wang Shu-fen & Bear Lee(etaiwannews.com) The aviation and tourism industries on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will jointly launch a a package tour of Taiwan and the Shanghai Expo 2010 early next year.
To this end, Su Guangjian, a standing board member of the Shanghai Tourism Trade Association, on behalf of the Shanghai Municipal Tourism Administration, signed a "strategic cooperative partnership"
Click here >> more info...1206. Prague to build
2009. 28 October
Prague will display replicas of the 14th-century Charles Bridge and the unique astronomical clock from the Old-Town Hall at the Expo 2010 world exhibition in Shanghai, China, Frantisek Cipro, head of the City Hall foreign relations section, told reporters yesterday.
by ČTK
(ceskenoviny.cz) The Prague display will cost 33 million crowns of which the City Hall will cover 15 million. Click here >> more info...
1207. Aye, robot: 'emperor' to prove Expo draw
2009. 28 October
by Yang Jian (shanghaidaily.com) Robots made to resemble Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) and his consort Yang Yuhuan will welcome visitors to the Shaanxi pavilion at China's joint-provincial pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo.
Visitors to the joint pavilion that will house the mainland's 31 provinces and municipalities will see terracotta soldiers from northwest Shaanxi, dinosaur fossils from southwest Liaoning Province and a huge blue and white porcelain bowl from eastern Jiangxi Province. Click here >> more info...
1208. Expo pavilion to put solar energy on exhibit
2009. 28 October
Photo taken on Aug. 23, 2009 shows the solar power-generating panel roof of the Shanghai-Expo 2009 Theme Pavilion, the largest of its kind in single unit which was just finished for installation, in east China's Shanghai Municipality. The solar power-generating panel extends to a total area of 30,000 square meters, accounting for a half of the 60,000-square-meters roof of the Shanghai-Expo 2009 Theme Pavilion. (Xinhua Photo)
by Yvonne Chan
(businessgreen.com) Shanghai has unveiled a green Theme Pavilion for next year's World Expo 2010, which it claims boasts the nation's largest rooftop solar energy system. Click here >> more info...
1209. Volvo Penta Contributes to Cleaner World Exhibition
2009. 28 October
(www.nautica.it) As a result of the best environmental features, Volvo Penta has been appointed official supplier of diesel engines to 22 passenger ferries being built for the World Expo in Shanghai, China next year. Click here >> more info...1210. US Pavilion moves step closer
2009. 27 October
by Yang Jian (shanghaidaily.com) Organizers of the United States Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo said yesterday that fund-raising was going smoothly and about two-third complete.
Ken Jarrett, chairman of the US Pavilion board of directors, made the remarks at a ceremony marking the Dow Chemical Company joining the pavilion's sponsor list.
The Dow announcement brings the total number of sponsors to 15. Click here >> more info...
1211. Swiss give free peek for Expo
2009. 27 October
William Frei (right), consul general of Switzerland in Shanghai, and Manuel Salchli (second right), deputy commissioner general and director of the Swiss Pavilion, with other two guests sit on a chair lift yesterday during a highlight show of Swiss exhibits at the 2010 Expo in Songjiang University Town.
by Yang Jian
(shanghaidaily.com) Switzerland yesterday began to present free highlights of exhibits to be shown in its Shanghai Expo pavilion in a tour of universities in Yangtze Delta cities. Click here >> more info...
1212. Sun powers Expo pavilions
2009. 27 October
by Zhang Qian(shanghaidaily.com) Striking diamond and triangle shapes in dark and light blue sparkle on the roof of the huge World Expo 2010 Theme Pavilion. But the geometric shapes are more than decoration - they are solar panels that power the pavilion.
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1213. World Expo Plenty of GPS potties, to keep site clean
2009. 27 October
by Yang Jian(shanghaidaily.com) Not being able to find a clean toilet and seeing litter everywhere can spoil the world's most popular tourist spots.
Next year's Shanghai World Expo will feature more than 200 of the world's most innovative pavilions filled with the most advanced technology and inspiring exhibits about modern urban life. Click here >> more info...
1214. Nation’s automakers are seeing ’green’
2009. 27 October
Visitors look at an electric car at a recent industrial expo in Shanghai. More Chinese car manufacturers are developing energy-saving models.[Asianewsphoto]
(qnr.cn) The rush to produce more energy-efficient automobiles is fueling aggressive efforts by China’s automotive sector.
"The fuel-efficient and new energy vehicles should account for 10 percent of the total industry in 2012," Science and Technology Minister Wang Gang said recently in Beijing. Click here >> more info...
1215. Chinese and U.S. Tourism Leaders Meet at Orlando Summit
2009. 27 October
(hospitality-1st.com/)
U.S. and Chinese tourism officials
met last week (October 23-24) for the third time in two years to explore
opportunities for growing travel between the United States and China. Tourism
officials from 30 Chinese provinces and 23 U.S. states were in attendance
at the two-day summit, including Chairman of the China National Tourism
Administration Shao Qiwei and U.S. Travel
Association President and CEO Roger Dow. Click here >> more info...1216. Expo Visitors to Enjoy Free Ferryboat Rides
2009. 27 October
by Xu Leiying(english.cri.cn) Twenty-two ferryboats will offer visitors free shuttle services across the Huangpu River during the six-month 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, the local website Eastday.com reports. Click here >> more info...
1217. Taxpayers to foot €4m bill for world trade fair stand
2009. 27 October
by Aine Kerr (independent.ie) AN exhibition stand at a world trade fair will cost taxpayers more than €4m to build despite previous warnings about the value for money of participating in the event.
The full cost of taking part in EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, China, cannot yet be estimated. But the construction cost of building the stand alone, including fees and charges, will come to €4.2m.
Click here >> more info...1218. Hypsos Selected as the Project Manager
2009. 27 October
(newswiretoday.com) After working on the design development of the Urbanian Theme Pavilion for the last two years, Hypsos is starting another prestigious World Expo project, this time for the Hong Kong Government. Click here >> more info...1219. Digital Interactive Map
2009. 27 October
(digitalsignageexpo.net) Touchmedia, an in-taxi interactive media company, in partnership with the Shanghai Municipal Institute of Surveying & Mapping, recently unveiled an electronic map to make taxi passengers’ lives easier. Click here >> more info...1220. Shanghai luxury hotel market heats up
2009. 26 October
(Agence France Presse) The world's leading luxury hotels are rushing to expand in Shanghai ahead of next year's World Expo, with hopes high for the upscale travel sector in the Chinese financial hub despite the global downturn. Click here >> more info...1221. Interpreters to help taxi drivers
2009. 26 October
by Dong Zhen (shanghaidaily.com) Shanghai taxis are being upgraded with a new dispatch system that allows English-speaking interpreters to talk to passengers at the touch of a button, local transport authorities said at the weekend.
This will make communication easier for foreign visitors to the 2010 World Expo, said officials from Shanghai Traffic Law Enforcement Team. Click here >> more info...
1222. Solomon Islands to Take Part in 2010 Expo
2009. 26 October
(solomontimes.com) The pacific council of tourism ministers which met two weeks ago in Honiara noted, that work on the interior displays of the Pacific Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo has commenced.The Pacific Pavilion is said to be the third largest in the whole Expo. Click here >> more info...
1223. Israel to Highlight Enegy for 2010 World Expo
2009. 26 October
by Maurice Picow (greenprophet.com) Israel plans on building a special country-shaped pavilion for the 2010 World Exposition, scheduled to open on May 1 next year in the Chinese city of Shanghai. The six month “world’s fair” will be based on ways to improve the quality of like in the world’s urban environments. It’s appropriately entitled Better City, Better Life. The fair organizers hope to have an attendance of more the 70 million visitors during its long run. Click here >> more info...
1224. Updated information concerning Expo Shanghai Online
2009. 26 October
(Crystal Digital Technology) Expo Shanghai Online, the general platform which is developed entirely by Crystal CG, is a Product divided in two types of Virtual Pavilions:Type A or Browsing Pavilion which will be built by us in order of the Shanghai Expo bureau for those countries that do not have the budget to build it them selves. Click here >> more info...
1225. Canada, world get ready for Shanghai's Expo 2010
2009. 26 October
China's national pavillion is being built to wow at the Shanghai Expo. At 63 meters, the so-called "Oriental Crown" is more than three times higher than any other country was allowed to build. The structure is painted "Forbidden City Red," which is actually seven different shades painted on different levels so that the colour looks the same when the sun is shining.
Photo by: Steven Curtin
by Aileen McCabe
(montrealgazette.com) The largest "nation branding" competition in the world is slated to take place in China's financial hub beginning next May. Click here >> more info...
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