In last year's World Championships in Shanghai, Great Britain's Rebecca Adlington swam the final 50 meters of the 800m freestyle final in 28.91 seconds, .02 second faster than Ye and 19 hundredths faster than Lochte's time from the 400m medley.
The fox was first spotted in the wild at last year's Mobile Asia Expo in Shanghai.
Davydenko was making his second successive appearance in the final, having lost to Novak Djokovic in Shanghai last year, and the Russian was full of confidence after finally beating Federer at the 13th attempt in the semi-finals.
Brands like Prada and Samsonite, which listed its shares in China last year, are growing more interested in what Shanghai women are buying than what New Yorkers on the Upper West Side are wearing and toting their Jimmy Choos in en route to the airport.
Baltimore-based Under Armour used its hometown hero in a print campaign in Shanghai last year.
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Hundreds of people in Shanghai fell ill last year from such meat.
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Djokovic won the tournament in 2008 its final staging in Shanghai, but last year failed to qualify out of a group including Berdych.
"It was the same for me last year and the year before, " Davydenko, who qualified for 2008's season-ending event in Shanghai, told the ATP Tour Web site.
Last year marked 140 years since a group of Chinese merchants in Shanghai founded a shipping line to compete with those of Western capitalists, a first for China.
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Last year, the first year Knight Frank released this report, Shanghai saw the biggest year-to-year increase in rental prices, at 8.2%.
Shanghai claims last year to have become the first city in China to provide free education for all migrant children, mostly in state-run schools, with some in subsidised private ones.
Last year, Blizzard held its Battle.net World Championship (BWC) in Shanghai, China to crown a world champion.
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As his dispute with Changhong worsened last year, Ji ignored an adviser's warning and blithely flew to Shanghai in October 2004, confident his China contacts and his own stature would protect him.
Retail sales in the city rose 12.3% last year as it is, making Shanghai an attractive city for luxury brands, real estate and professional services.
Nowhere is this attempt more forceful than in Shanghai, where the government introduced its first-ever property tax last year.
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Although there may be a bubble in luxury housing, especially in Shanghai, house prices nationwide rose by only 4% on average last year.
Last year the Netherlands-based division moved a collection of Faberge eggs from a museum in Moscow to Shanghai.
"We have to rescue this history, " insists Xu Buzeng, 70-year-old doyen of Jewish scholars in Shanghai, who realized a lifelong dream last fall when he visited Israel on a fellowship to Hebrew University.
Unveiling today in Shanghai, the two-seater EN-V concept is a play on last year's altogether riveting (albeit forgotten) P.
Last year reports in the state-controlled press suggested that Beijing and Shenzhen, as well as Chongqing and Shanghai, would be among the first cities to introduce such taxes.
This year and last saw Chinese stocks retreat after an extraordinary 80.0% run-up in the closely watched Shanghai Composite Index in 2009.
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