California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said during a visit Sunday to the Shanghai Expo that his state would bid to host the 2020 World Expo in the technology hub of Silicon Valley.

A survey to judge the international image of Chinese cities was released in Shanghai on Monday, with the financial hub scoring the highest among all the 30 cities that were tested.

Pianist Liu Wei sits quietly to compose himself before plunging into the music. Then he takes off a sock.

Shanghai's National Business Daily said an editor and several journalists were attacked Friday by men claiming to work for a shampoo maker whose products have been alleged to contain toxic chemicals.

The Zijin Mining Group, China's largest gold producer, has been accused of attempting to bribe journalists to cover up a wastewater leak in Shanghang, East China's Fujian province.

A new survey shows that more than half of female graduate students in Shanghai show an understanding attitude toward other girls who are kept as lovers by rich men or who work at night clubs.

Efforts have been stepped up to boost the number of home-stay visitors after it was found that very few tourists had utilized the unique scheme since the Expo 2010 Shanghai kicked off on May 1.

The Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) will start new negotiations with Chinese aviation authorities in October to increase flights across the Taiwan Strait as consumer groups complained about the high ticket prices for the Taipei-Shanghai route.

A Chinese-born Australian activist, who changed his name to get around a ban on his return, has been missing for more than a day after making a one-man protest in Shanghai, a campaign organizer said yesterday.

Hunting down and replacing public signs written in “Chinglish” has been a priority for the Shanghai government over the past few years. But the advent of Expo 2010 Shanghai has deepened its resolve to locate and destroy signs written in mangled English.