Around Shanghai: Marks & Spencers opens, a new Suzhou Creek and yet another tallest building on Puxi

• Marks & Spencer's 40,000 sq ft Shanghai store opened yesterday on Nanjing Xi Lu, as hordes of curious Shanghai shoppers rushed for its lingerie, biscuits and jam, writes The Times.
• Health officials have announced a more streamlined and centralised blood collection system to be in place in the city by 2010.
• The dirty, polluted Suzhou Creek will be cleaned up and remade into a "cultural corridor" that will attract businesses and tourists alike.
• Over 50 karaoke bars in Shanghai signed an agreement yesterday with municipal authorities to pay a copyright fee of 6 yuan per room per day for the whole of 2008.
• Construction has begun on the 66 storey, 300m tall White Magnolia Plaza on the west side of the Huangpu River. Designed by the Chicago-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, this will be Puxi's biggest building and is scheduled to be completed by 2012.

Photo from Julien & Gwladys