Oh hurrah, with just about 200-some days left to go, the main pavilion for the Shanghai Expo - that red one that looks kind of like a square temple - was finished yesterday, making it the first out of the four central pavilions to be ready for interior design work, according to Shanghai Daily. The pavilion highlights Shanghai's various eco-friendly initatives (solar energy, plant walls, and the like) spans a whopping area of 11.5 hectares - the size of 21 American football fields - and will house exhibitions highlighting the link between humans, cities, and the Earth. We can't wait to wander around inside it! more ›

For just 100 rmb per day, foreign visitors can experience the life of an average Shanghainese citizen during the 2010 Expo. more ›

Political border disputes will be played out in miniature at Shanghai's World Expo next year, after rumors that World Expo organizers are planning a Taiwan pavilion within the Chinese section of the fair stirred up old tensions about Taiwan's political status. more ›

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