Known for grandiose projects such as the Shanghai World Financial Center, China's tallest building, which opened in 2008.
The Peel Group, an infrastructure and real-estate outfit, hosted a pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo last year.
The revision came days before the opening of the six-month Shanghai World Expo, which organizers expect will draw more than 70 million people.
It is also well-known for its other iconic buildings including the futuristic CCTV headquarters in Beijing and the Shanghai World Financial Center, which is China's tallest skyscraper.
Since then, two events, the Beijing Olympics later that year and the Shanghai World Expo of 2010, might have served as coming-out parties for a rising China.
Air China told Reuters the total investment and overall size of the joint venture's fleet had yet to be agreed, but it hopes to have a deal finalized before the Shanghai World Expo begins in May 2010.
Gale hired Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects to design the city. (Among its projects: the Mohegan Sun Casino and the Shanghai World Financial Center.) The plans proved to be a little difficult because the landfill didn't yet exist.
They range from Hong Kong's 118-story International Commerce Center, home to a penthouse infinity pool and one of the world's highest hotels, to the slightly taller Shanghai World Financial Center, which is known as "the bottle opener" for the trapezoidal gap at the top.
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Like the Beijing 2008 Olympics or the Shanghai 2010 World Expo.
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Does the President expect to stop in Shanghai at the World Expo ground?
She likes to attempt sartorial derring-dos, adding a touch of old world Shanghai to an off the moment Louis Vuitton ensemble or rocking the 80s look with a body con Versace dress.
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Last year, Blizzard held its Battle.net World Championship (BWC) in Shanghai, China to crown a world champion.
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Eleven people have died, most of them in Shanghai, the World Health Organization said Friday.
The Dachis Group is also having events in cities around the world: Shanghai, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, London, Tokyo and New York.
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And Shanghai will hold the World Exposition next year.
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After months of gains in contrast to steady downturns elsewhere in the world, Shanghai's Composite Index was down 8 percent at one point before rallying slightly to end the day down 5 percent.
And despite missing three months of this year through injury, Murray was still just one victory from securing a place in the Masters Cup - currently under way in Shanghai - for the world's best eight players.
Visit any burgeoning city in the developing world from Shanghai to Mexico City and the same reality emerges: as cities get larger, they spread out, as people begin to aspire, as best they can, for the quality of life that most North Americans and Europeans already take for granted.
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Blizzard developers celebrated the new game early at the Battle.net World Championship in Shanghai.
From May China will be visited by a series of foreign leaders going to the World Expo in Shanghai.
Mr. Hudec arrived in Shanghai at the end of World War I "in a city that wanted to change, and he wanted to change with it, " Ms. Warr says.
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Shanghai made headlines around the world after embarking on a recruitment drive which included the signings of strikers Didier Drogba and Nicolas Anelka from English club Chelsea, which won the European Champions League last season.
The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the World Expo, funded by local state enterprises, commissioned a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer, Liu Heung Shing, to compile a book of images of Shanghai's history, giving him unprecedented access to the city's archives.
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.
But in Shanghai, unlike much of the world, nearly all the Jews survived the war.
He also believes that Shanghai artists are performing on the world stage.
Share prices in Shanghai, until 2001 among the world's best-performing, have slumped.
It now plans to build on this success with a Battle.net World Championship event in Shanghai next week featuring dozens of WoW and Starcraft pro-gamers.
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