A SHENZHEN dancer was recently recruited by a U.S. ballet troupe in Washington D.C., becoming the first Shenzhener in a major Western dance troupe, Thursday’s Shenzhen Special Zone Daily said in a report.     Huang Rui, 20, is now a member of the Washington Ballet, one of the premier ballet companies in the United States.     She […]

    A CITYWIDE district-based weather forecast service was launched Wednesday in Shenzhen, Thursday’s Southern Metropolis Daily reported.     Shenzhen residents can now receive weather forecasts relevant to their own districts via TV or text messages, the Daily report said. Individual warnings for typhoons and severe thunderstorms will be issued in each district, marking a first for a […]

WANG ZUOBING, who made a living selling barbecued meat on Xinzhou Street 7, Futian, was a man with a long history of helping others. Early Wednesday, as he tried to help yet another victim, he lost his life but became a hero in a city where barbecue vendors are cursed for making the city dirty. […]

Malaysia is keen to follow the example of China’s special economic zones as the Southeast Asian nation is determined to establish similar free-trade areas, said visiting Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar. During his five-day China visit, which concluded on Friday, the foreign minister had toured Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. Syed Hamid […]

REAL-ESTATE developers in Shenzhen have been banned from using marketing techniques like pre-sale and the issurance of VIP memberships when releasing new apartments into the market as part of the latest official effort to slow down the surging housing prices in the city, the Daily Sunshine reported Saturday. The new measures, jointly released by Shenzhen […]

Two bottlenose dolphins are swimming with children suffering from autism at Sea World in Xiaomeisha in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province,on Tuesday. (Photo: Shenzhendaily.com) Two bottlenose dolphins began swimming with children suffering from autism at Sea World in Xiaomeisha on Tuesday, Wednesday’s Shenzhen Economic Daily reported. A 9-year-old girl from Luohu District and a 2-year-old boy from […]

Guo Lin from Shenzhen, the winner of Miss Tourism Planet, receives congratulatory kisses from Miss Gibraltar (R), the fi rst runner-up, and Miss Turkey, the second runner-up of the beauty pageant held in Athens, Greece on Saturday. Guo represented China in the event after winning the national title last month. SD-Agencies  

TWO Shenzhen children were hospitalized in two separate incidents late Wednesday night after being hit by empty bottles falling from high-rise buildings. Xiao Nong, the son of a storekeeper in Meilin, Futian District, was playing in front of the family store at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday when a pesticide bottle fell from a fourth-floor balcony and […]

TWO young men living at a shelter set up by a Shenzhen policewoman won two gold medals in a national art competition for nonprofessionals, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported yesterday. Zhang Xiaoli, in his early 20s, won gold at the traditional Chinese music instruments category at the Fourth Stars & Torch China Youth Artists […]

By Zhou Bajun (China Daily) Updated: 2007-08-29 07:11 The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, which borders on Hong Kong, has been juggling a big question since the late 1980s: How to handle the zone’s relationship with Hong Kong? The government of the special economic zone was once torn between different options. People have occasionally entertained the […]