Now compare that to Shanghai in the same time, Shanghai's benchmark composite index rose 130 percent.
It will be the tallest building in China, and the second time Shanghai skyscrapers ranked in the top five pieces of commercial real estate worldwide.
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Apple (AAPL) faces another patent dispute in China, this time from Shanghai Zhi Zhen Internet Technology Co.
This has been going for 14 series in America, and has just been staged and shown in Shanghai for the second time.
Over the last two years, the government has raised downpayment and mortgage requirements, imposed a property tax for the first time in Shanghai and Chongqing, increased construction of low-cost housing and enacted home-purchase restrictions in about 40 cities.
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It also led the Latin American contingent in another list, this time compiled by Shanghai's Jiao Tong University and released in August, ranking in the cluster between 101st and 150th.
Fernando Alonso will start third for Ferrari, and the Spaniard is confident of repeating his victory last time out in Shanghai after also deciding to conserve his tires by giving up his final run, with track temperatures rising above 40C and playing havoc with the rubber.
Werner also found time to visit Hangzhou, Shanghai's mirror-lake-and-misty-mountain version of the Hamptons ( Escapes), and its ethereal Amanresort, Amanfayun.
Another part of the delay was needing to finish some projects which first prevented by relocation from Shanghai to Tokyo, then fully occupied my time for a few weeks.
At the time, he cited findings from a Shanghai testing firm that determined that Johnson Controls had abided by local laws and wasn't the source of the local lead pollution.
In Shanghai, where it was gathering for the fourth time, there still were plenty of family touches--at least a dozen of the brood were there to greet the clientele at the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel.
But I am clueless as to what Shanghai will turn out to be in two years' time, totally clueless.
In October 2004 Ji and a purchasing director flew to Shanghai to line up orders for Wal-Mart in time for Thanksgiving weekend.
Smith owns a four-bedroom house in North Lawrence and a small apartment in Jining (600 miles into the interior from Shanghai), but he is essentially a full-time road warrior.
The Kentucky-born athlete was second in the 100m at the Worlds in Berlin, before equalling the second-fastest 100m of all time clocking a national record 9.69s in Shanghai in September.
It was the first time that Chinese students had participated, and children from Shanghai ranked first in every single area.
In the final match of the day in Shanghai, Thomas Johansson took part in the event for the first time.
Shanghai's small Russian Orthodox community has also, for the first time, received permission to use one of the pre-war churches built by White Russians.
"We see (overall) market transactions picking up, as the government is making it easier for first-time home buyers, " said Vincent Lo, chairman of Shanghai-based developer Shui On Land Ltd.
The Shanghai municipal government revealed its blueprints for the latest Disneyland Resort for the first time on Wednesday, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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In November the Indian-owned company announced a deal to complete a car plant near Shanghai by 2015, allowing it to manufacture vehicles in China for the first time.
The most recent star chef to grace the city's shores, though, is Jason Atherton, a wunderkind who broke free from Gordon Ramsay's empire in 2010 and whose restaurants in London, Shanghai and Singapore have attracted a lot of accolades in a short amount of time.
Long-time resident Luise Schafer was one of the first foreigners to move to Shanghai after China re-established ties with the rest of the world in the late 1970s.
At his academy in Shanghai, Dickie has a team of 15 Olympic hopefuls, eight of whom attend full-time training, which is funded by a state who get value for money -- with the girls training six days a week if they are not contesting a tournament.
Japan's Nikkei Stock Average jumped 2% to 9768.96, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index rose 1.3% to 20900.73 and China's Shanghai Composite Index climbed 1.1% to 2420.28, all three rising for the first time this week.
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