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Shanghai is slowly drowning

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Oriental Morning Post
January 16, 2008

The main headline of today's Oriental Morning Post announces that the ocean level around Shanghai has risen 115 mm over the past 30 years, the second highest among China's coastal cities. Tianjin is ranked first; the ocean level there has climbed 196 mm, says the State Oceanic Administration, which published the 2007 China Sea Level Report yesterday.

The front page photo shows British Prime Minister Gordon Brown flanked by Dong Fangzhuo and Zheng Zhi, Chinese footballers who are now playing in the UK. In preparation for his first trip to China as PM, Mr. Brown invited Chinese guests to afternoon tea at No. 10 Downing Street.

The headline at the top of the page quotes President Hu Jintao, who spoke out against corruption at a high-level session of the CPC's anti-graft arm yesterday. Xinhua has the details.

Other headlines:

  • Medals for the upcoming Olympic Games will be produced by the Shanghai Mint and are expected to be completed within six months;
  • According to long-term weather forecasts, rain is predicted in Shanghai for twenty days of the 40-day Spring Festival transportation rush.
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Why does it say 115mm on the picture of the front page and 192mm in your English resume?

As it says in the text, 115mm in the Chinese headline is the amount "the ocean level around Shanghai has risen".

According to the newspaper, Tianjin's sea level has risen 196mm.

The Oriental Morning Post is a Shangahi paper, so the editors highlighted the Shanghai number in the headline rather than the highest number from Tianjin.

First Goldkorn savages our ex-pat media (correctly aas it happens but that's hardly the point) and now he wants Shanghai to drown - did you have a bad night out in the Whore of the Orient or something?

My mistake, I reread the English and it makes more sense. Thanks

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