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Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson will serve as president of a seven-member jury for this year's Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), the festival's general manager said on Thursday.
Eleven people went on trial Thursday accused of manufacturing and selling a fake eye medication that left 61 people suffering from adverse reactions in Shanghai.
The children of migrant families will no longer have to go back home to take the national exams needed to give them entrance to a university if a proposed policy for Beijing and Shanghai comes into force, according to the Ministry of Education.
The central government will initiate a pilot insurance exchange in Shanghai, said Wu Dingfu, the head of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC).
People have been lining up to visit the Shanghai Art Museum since it opened for free to the public for the first time on Saturday.
The life span of Shanghai residents has surpassed 82 years, the longest in the country, the municipality's health authorities have revealed.
The organizers of Expo 2010 Shanghai China are confident the multi-billion-yuan attraction will turn a profit, even though the final numbers have not yet been audited and announced.
Eight apartments in Zhabei and Yangpu districts have benefited from a program helping senior citizens to improve their living conditions.
The earliest bottle of Moutai liquor ever seen on the market failed to attract any buyer at Shanghai's first vintage Moutai auction, despite the high spirits of collectors.
Three people are dead and an unknown number are injured after a pile-up involving more than 10 vehicles on a cross-sea bridge in Shanghai in early Feb 22.
China's maestro of Yueju opera genre of Chinese opera, Yuan Xuefen, dies Saturday at the age of 89, Yuan's family said Feb 20.
Shanghai plans to invest more than 40 billion yuan (about $6.1 billion) to accelerate its development as a "world-famous tourist city" under the municipality's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015).