Visitors to Shanghai's World Expo say organizers have plenty of kinks to iron out before the event — the biggest world's fair ever — formally opens on May Day.

A celebrity-studded Shanghai Expo song carrying a tune similar to a Japanese ballad released more than a decade ago has been pulled following a barrage of embarrassing plagiarism charges.

Shanghai's Oriental Pearl Tower, a building that has become a symbol of China's financial center, briefly caught fire early on Tuesday.

If it's not the Greatest Show on Earth, then the World Expo opening next month in Shanghai is surely the biggest, in keeping with China's striving to do everything on a gargantuan scale.

Orthopaedic surgeon Bai Helong hikes up his trousers, places his foot on his desk and marks the spot just below his hairless knee where he cuts into the legs of patients who want to be taller.

Yang Huiwen is putting herself through college doing what other young women love to do on many a free afternoon out with friends: Try on new clothes.

Visiting Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng toured a recycling park in Taiwan's central city of Taichung Friday, where he said he was particularly impressed by measures adopted to collect and recycle kitchen leftovers.

Business and investment cooperation between Taiwan and Shanghai will accelerate following promotion by Shanghai municipal authorities and the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), according to business and industry leaders here.

Taiwan's exports of agricultural products to China will set new records in both volume and value this year after a trade delegation from Shanghai secured new purchasing contracts, according to the Council of Agriculture (COA).

Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin and visiting Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng have set a target of launching direct flights between the two cities in October.