Police in China's financial capital Shanghai are investigating the first fake Expo 2010 Shanghai ticket discovered on Wednesday, causing Expo organizers to remind the public to purchase tickets only from authorized dealers.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton passed out teddy bears to Chinese children as she toured the Shanghai World Expo on Saturday and carefully skirted the United States' many policy disputes with China.

Metro AG, Germany's largest retailer, said it plans to have as many as 100 Media Markt consumer- electronics outlets in China by the middle of the decade.

Shanghai unveiled a new landmark on its Bund waterfront over the weekend, a bronze bull sculpture inspired by Wall Street's “Charging Bull” representing China's rising financial ambitions.

Police said Thursday they have detained two men suspected of threatening children following a wave of attacks at schools in China that prompted orders for police and security guards to watch over students as they enter and leave schools.

China's commercial capital of Shanghai has always been all about business. Nowhere is that more evident than at its World Expo, a giant bazaar of ideas, technologies and outright PR offensives focused on the world's fastest-growing major market.

North Korea, Sudan, Iran, Myanmar, Zimbabwe are not normally countries associated with booming economies or viewed favorably by many, especially in the West, on the world stage.

Shanghai locked down part of its financial district and stepped up security across China's richest city ahead of the US$44 billion World Expo, which may draw 10 times as many visitors as the Beijing Olympics.

With its gilded youth and glitzy bars, Shanghai, host city of this year's World Expo, is rapidly reviving the thing for which it was once truly famous: nightlife.

Shanghai has commissioned a new landmark to be unveiled during the World Expo that captures the city's rising global ambitions: a beefed-up replica of Wall Street's “Charging Bull.”