[photopress:hotels_Banyan_Tree.jpg,full,alignright]The resort, hotel and spa operator Banyan Tree has signed on a new property in Shanghai. Banyan announced that it had secured the management of a new exclusive waterfront boutique hotel on one of the last available waterfront sites along the Shanghai Bund. The hotel is scheduled to open in 2010. Banyan Tree has recently […]
Category: Economics & Trade
[photopress:itpanda_virus.jpg,full,alignright]Li Jun, 25, and three others, all of them in their twenties, were accused of writing the virus ‘Xiongmao Shaoxiang’, or ‘Panda burning joss stick’. It spread through the Internet and causing huge damage to millions of computer users from November 2006 to March of this year. Li was sentenced for four years in jail. […]
[photopress:logistics_gazely.jpg,full,alignright]UK-based Gazeley Properties Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of global retailer giant Wal-Mart, is scheduled to create a logistics center with a construction area of 53,000 square meters and a land area of 146.3 mu (or about 97,582.1 square meters) in the eastern Chinese city of Kunshan. The first phase of the project will start […]
[photopress:mba_foreign_students_1.jpg,full,alignright]Cao Guoxing, director of the Ministry of Education international cooperation and exchange department, said that in 2006 China attracted more than 162,000 students from 185 countries and regions. He was speaking at a function for foreign students for the Mid-Autumn Festival. He said, ‘China’s educational sector has made remarkable progress, especially in teaching quality and […]
[photopress:Accor_Logo.jpg,full,alignright]Accor said it has agreed to develop 62 new hotels in China, which, in addition to existing expansion plans, will bring its total network in the country to 180 by 2010 from 50 currently. As part of this extra expansion, Accor will open three more hotels in Beijing before the 2008 Olympics, bringing the number […]