Hong Kong has proposed opening up its border to permanent residents of the booming southern Chinese city of Shenzhen to boost its competitiveness and cross-border integration, a newspaper reported on Friday. Chinese residents in numerous mainland cities, including Shenzhen, are now free to visit bustling Hong Kong, with paperwork required for each visit for a […]
SZ dancer recruited by U.S. ballet
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 […]
District weather forecasts launched
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, a true Shenzhen hero
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. […]
Shenzhen offers 'great example' -Malaysian FM
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 […]
Pre-sale of new apartments banned
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 […]
Dolphins make debut as “doctors”
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 […]
SZ woman wins pageant in Greece
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
Falling bottles from high-rise buildings injure 2 children
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 […]
Homeless youths win gold in art contest
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 […]