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HONG KONG—Hong Kong Disneyland, which has been losing money and struggling to attract visitors, said Thursday that its Shanghai counterpart...
There is a palace for children in Shanghai. It is managed by the Soong Ching-ling Foundation. The foundation, set up in the ’80s, is part of a network of similarly named organizations all over China with the common aim of promoting the well-being of children and women.
Zest Airways is the best way to fly to Shanghai (which is the new Hong Kong for shopping and sight-seeing) at a base airfare of only P1,448. There are four quick steps to getting onboard its new jets.
At the time when I learned how to travel, I started with a guide book. For my generation it was Lonely Planet and Let’s Go, just as it had been Fodor’s and Footprint Guides before that, all the way to the first English-language Baedeker Guide published in 1861.
The annual conference of Wendy Kopp’s Teach for All global network of chapters from 32 countries, held this year in Tengchong, Yunnan province in China, began with a more exclusive retreat in Shanghai.
In the local hotel industry, David Batchelor is a familiar figure, one that until a couple of years ago was connected to an international hotel chain. Although he requested that focus not be placed on the almost 20 years he spent with the Peninsula Group in Manila, Hong Kong and Shanghai, it still bears mentioning.
American entertainment giant Disney is set to pour an additional $800 million into its Disney Shanghai, its first theme park on the Chinese mainland, officials said Monday.
I had been planning for the longest time to visit Shanghai after an adventurous trip to Beijing in 2005 with my media advertising colleagues.
Shanghai hairy crab was top of mind in the agenda as soon as we landed at Pudong Airport in Shanghai. We thought how nice it would be to eat this famous fat crab right in its place of origin.
Apart from featuring old and new Disney characters, including Anna, Elsa and Olaf of “Frozen,” the deal between Walt Disney Company and Fast Retailing Co. Ltd., the Tokyo-based giant behind Uniqlo and other global retail brands, extends to images and inspirations culled from movies and characters from Marvel, “Star Wars” and Pixar.
