Like we told you, the new Terminal at Pudong Airport opened smoothly* yesterday morning, bringing relief to crowded Terminal 1 and a whole stack of new shopping and eating options to those flying from the new building. Not quite a twin, but definitely in the same family as the old airport, Terminal 2 does feel a little calmer and brighter with a warm light from the wooden roof. How much of the calmness is......

All ye lucky yuletide souls whose employer's lack of the Scrooge gene has enabled ye to escape Shanghai over the Xmas break, rejoice! Those of you flying back into China after January 1 no longer need to fill in that pesky health declaration form. Although Shanghaiist kind of enjoyed the pre-landing self-diagnosis ritual. Just how many avian flu carrying fowl had we fraternized with over the past month? And could the hail of sputum from......

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The free Metro Express commuter paper has a big front-page spread today on the People's Square metro interchange make-over. The headline announces that "People's Square Three Line Interchange Hall To Open By Year's End", which is old news to those who have been following the progress of the new metro Line 8. Instead, the reason for the story being published today is that the Shanghai Rail Transport Construction Headquarters just released a bunch of numbers......

Three more Metro lines to begin running this year "The city will ensure the construction of Line 6, Line 8 and the first phase of Line 9 by the end of 2007, the Shanghai Construction and Transport Commission announced." We'll see. Shanghai issues special 'tourist passport' "Shanghai issued a batch of special 'tourist passports' yesterday to provide discounts, ranging from 10 percent to 50 percent, on tickets to the city's tourist attractions." Party's over......

Or at least the windows in old skyscrapers. The Shanghai Construction and Transport Management Commission ordered a safety check in the 2,300 glass-walled high-rises in the city yesterday after a huge glass panel fell from the 36th floor of Citic Square last July, injuring two pedestrians. So look up for falling debris when walking down Nanjing Road. Photo from spiky247. Shanghaiist features a "Photo of the Day", daily pictures of life around the city. We......

Tipped by scRambler, we checked out Shanghai Daily's slick new Live in Shanghai website ... and we have to say we are impressed. Helpful and comprehensive, the site covers most of the basics any newcomer to the city would want to know. We wish a site like this existed, oh, four years and six weeks ago. Live in Shanghai is split up into four major sections -- Fast Facts, Transport, Housing and, of course, Miscellaneous......

Here's the good news: Shanghai is reportedly going to ban the use of heavily polluting vehicles between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. The restrictions will go into place starting February 15. Here is the news that makes the good news seem a little less good: The restriction will only take place on the city's inner-ring "elevated" roads, which makes it seem like all the heavily polluting vehicles will be forced to ground level ... where......

Considering the situation on Shanghai's roads outlined earlier by Shanghaiist, it's no wonder that parking a car in this city can be a tough assignment. It almost requires emulating the feats of Cadet Mahoney (Steve Guttenburg) in that immortal scene from Police Academy: It fits! The damn thing fits. And I thought there were no more spaces. Am I an idiot or what? (Okay, perhaps "immortal" is overplaying it). And while we're mentioning classic comedic......