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Around Shanghai: Luxury car fights, overpacked school busses, collapsing balconies, and Yao Ming the diplomat

Around Shanghai: Luxury car fights, overpacked school busses, collapsing balconies, and Yao Ming the diplomat

  • In this week's home terror story, a 69-year-old woman was killed when the 6th floor balcony she was standing on collapsed. The accident is blamed on renovation being done to the apartment below, although the woman's son believes shoddy construction in the balcony itself is the problem.
  • CNNGo takes a look at the lives of foreign families who adopt Chinese babies and then decide to move to China.
  • With International Volunteer Day coming to an end yesterday, Shanghai has registered over a million volunteers so far, but many can't find places for all of them due to a lack of programs.
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    Shanghai workers experienced lowest wage growth in a decade

    Shanghai workers experienced lowest wage growth in a decade

    In case you were curious: The average monthly wage for Shanghai workers in 2009 was 3566RMB, an increase of 8.3% from last year's 2008. While the wage still went up, however, it was the lowest average wage growth figure recorded in the last decade. By comparison, last year's wages went up from the year befores by 13.8%, and the year before that it shot up 17.4%. Guess Shanghai wages were also a victim of the recession. more ›

    China draft law sets caps on executive pay

    China draft law sets caps on executive pay

    The U.S. isn't the only country that's making incredibly super rich people cut down on their incredible super richness, China has now also set compensation caps for its State-sector financial companies. Salaries for top executives are now limited to 2.8 million yuan. Caps for pay packages will be slashed for regular executives, down to four times their annual salary (50,000 to 700,000 yuan). Oh, the humanity! Source: China Daily more ›

    Top earners in the Chinese sports world

    As revealed by Qilu TV, the top three earners in the Chinese sports world ranked according to the sum of their basic annual pay, prize money, endorsement and appearance fees are Yao Ming (RMB250 million), Liu Xiang (RMB70 million) and Guo Jingjing (RMB15 million). These are followed by Sun Jihai (RMB10 million), Shao Jiayi (RMB6 million), Dong Fangzhuo (RMB4.8 million) and Zheng Zhi (RMB4.5 million). more ›

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