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VISITORS to the Shanghai Disney Resort will be able to collect stamps at different locations on an official passport as a souvenir, the management of the resort announced today. The resort has entered into a multi-year alliance with Invengo Information Technology Co Ltd, who will be the exclusive provider of the Shanghai Disney Resort Magic Passport, the…

SHANGHAI Tower will be one of the city’s top cultural landmarks, boasting rich artistic elements and plenty of exhibition space, developers of the highest building in the country said yesterday as it enters its final inspection phase before it opens. “Cultural and artistic elements can be seen from the underground to the top,” said Ge Qing, deputy general…

EXPECT to see Daisy Duck dressed like a 1920s Shanghai party girl when you visit the Disney Resort this summer. The amusement park will be a veritable mecca for merchandise when it swings open its gates for the first time on June 16, according to park officials. And many of the souvenirs on offer will have a decidedly Shanghai feel. About 7,000 products will be s…

A new museum celebrating the World Expo will be opening in Shanghai at the end of the year. Bureau of International Expositions chief Vincente Gonzalez Loscertales said the World Expo Museum will also serve as an Expo information center. “Our duty is to keep the achievement and memory of the World Expo alive,” said Loscertales during a visit to Shanghai, whi…

A PROGRAM of 41 free open air concerts at the Shanghai Concert Hall gets under way on Saturday, when the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra performs Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake.” Tickets for the ballet, which starts at 2pm, are available now from epiao1616.com, and via the WeChat account (shhuangpu) and website (huangpuqu.sh.cn) of the Huangpu government, X…

TWO giant pandas, Xing Er and Ya Er, arrived at their new home in Shanghai Zoo on Saturday night, Shanghai Television Station reported yesterday. The two male pandas, both 2.5 years old, are cousins who were raised in Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. The younger of the two, Ya Er, was timid and sensitive to t…