THE city’s photo studios have seen a sharp increase in reservations for wedding photos as 9/9/09 approaches. “In the past week, our seven studios across the city had been maintaining tight schedules because many young couples are having photos taken for the triple-nine day,” said Zhao Xinping, brand marketing manager of Shenzhen Forever Wedding Photographing […]

A cultural minister from an African country receives two packages of electronics goods from a salesman as his companion looks on in Huaqiangbei in Futian yesterday. They were two of the 14 officials from African countries including Chad and Cameroon on a weeklong visit to Shenzhen. They visited Dafen Oil Painting Village and Shenzhen Concert […]

CULTURAL officials from 14 African countries began their weeklong visit in Shenzhen to see for themselves the city’s cultural facilities, cultural industries, public cultural services and cultural heritage protection. The tour was arranged by the Chinese Ministry of Culture. With their tight schedule they will visit Dafen Oil Painting Village, Shenzhen Library, Shenzhen Concert Hall, […]

MORE than 300 drunk drivers had been detained in the city during the first eight months of this year, more than double in all 2008. Traffic police have been cracking down on violators, who are frequently the cause of fatal accidents. Only 30 drivers were detained for drunk driving in 2007, compared with 120 in […]

THE Qixi Festival, or Chinese Valentine’s Day, saw a variety of celebrations at theme parks, clubs and other public venues in Shenzhen yesterday. Window of the World offered a pair of tickets for 50 yuan (US$7.32) for a night visit, and the Qixi Museum, a temporary attraction in the theme park, attracted young lovers who […]

TWO dual-mode plug-in hybrid cars produced by Shenzhen-based carmaker BYD are in trial use in Hong Kong. A program was launched by the SAR in July to promote wider use of green-power vehicles. Kitty Poon, Hong Kong’s Undersecretary for the Environment, went for a spin in a BYD car yesterday, the first time the SAR […]

SHENZHEN will hold a trade fair to boost investment and consumption during the Northeast Asia Investment and Trade Expo to be held in Changchun, Jilin Province, from Sept. 1 to 6. It will be the biggest and highest-level trade fair Shenzhen has organized on the mainland outside the city this year, a press conference of […]

A 5-YEAR-OLD girl was rescued by firefighters Monday after getting stuck in security grating trying to look out a window in her home. The girl, identified as Xiao Lan, woke up at 5 a.m. Monday and couldn’t find her parents in their home in the Huangge community. She then climbed up to the windowsill to […]

EIGHTY volunteers, mainly new college graduates selected from 10 provinces, left Shenzhen yesterday to teach one semester in 31 rural schools in Gansu, Jiangxi and Guangxi. More than half of them were chosen from two local universities, Shenzhen University and Shenzhen Polytechnic. At a farewell ceremony yesterday, China Aviation Technology Import & Export Corp. Group […]

THE chairman of a Shenzhen company has sued a public security subbureau that wrongfully detained him for 4 million yuan (US$585,600) as compensation for company losses. Shen Qijia filed the suit in the Higher People’s Court of Guangdong Province in May. A verdict has not been announced. He had already received 11,000 yuan of State […]