SHANGHAI - Tennis celebrities including world No 1 Rafael Nadal of Spain, Switzerland's Roger Federer and five other players are expected to make guest appearances at Expo 2010 Shanghai when the city hosts the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000 in October. Rafael Nadal of Spain hits a return to Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus during ugg boots sale their quarter-final round match at the Cincinnati Masters tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio August 20, 2010. [Agencies] The pavilions of the seven countries where the players are from will also feature in a special exhibition space during the Oct 9-17 tournament as part of the "Visit Expo with Tennis Masters" program, officials said. Related readings: Incentives for individual Expo visitors Anhui workers get free trip to Expo There's some place like home at Expo Shanghai Expo welcomes Namibia week "It's a win-win cooperation to bring more visitors to Expo 2010, to extend the cultural exchange and make our event a truly international spectator base," said Jiang Lan, secretary-general of the organizing committee of the Shanghai Masters. "So far we have only invited the top seven players from these cheap adidas shoes countries, but we would like to invite more, conditions permitting." He said fans who buy tickets for the tournament will also be invited to the Expo and any special tennis-related programs the pavilions may organize through "a selective process".

In addition to Nadal and Federer, the Expo will also see the presence of Tomas Berdych (Czech Republic), Robin Soderling (Sweden), Juan Martin del Potro (Argentina), Novak Djokovic (Serbia) and Andy Murray (United Kingdom). Federer withdrew from last year's Shanghai Masters - one of his favorites - as well as the Japan Open, citing fatigue. Fourteen months previously he had impressed Chinese fans by picking up his first Olympic gold medal at the Beijing Games. "We do hope that he will make an appearance at the Swiss Pavilion," said Manuel Salchli, the pavilion's director. "We personally have very good memories of Roger Federer from when he won the doubles gold at the Beijing Olympics and visited the House of Switzerland in Beijing. He came there very late, at 4 o'clock in the morning, and he signed autographs and then had discount ugg boots a great party." With some 40 winter boots on sale days remaining until the tournament gets underway, the pavilions are still deciding what to display at the Qizhong louis handbags Tennis Center, said air max 90 Annika Rembe, commissioner general of the Sweden Pavilion. "It's a little early to release the secrets, but we will come back (and tell you)," she said. The Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup, with $3.24 million in prize moncler money, was officially upgraded to ATP World Tour Masters 1000 status last year. It is Asia's only Masters, moncler jackets making it second in prestige only to the four Grand Slams in men's tennis

Foreign and Military Affairs Spain seeks more investments from China (chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2010-09-01 11:15 Comments() PrintMail Large Medium Small Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, in Beijing on Tuesday, expressed his hopes that China will uggs sale lend a hand to help the nation plagued by economic crisis weather the storm. Zapatero, who is on the last day of his three-day visit to China before heading to Tokyo, also wants the two sides to expand cooperation and increase bilateral investment. And the most encouraging act by China was the buying of 400 million euros worth of 10-year Spain treasury bonds last July. "The increase of China's holding of Spain t-bonds establishes the market confidence of investors, therefore I hope China will continue to do so," Zapatero said in an interview with a Chinese newspaper, adding that Spain, as solvent as Germany and France, will use 2 percent of its GDP to pay back the t-bonds. The curator of Beijing Planetarium said aliens do exist but they haven't yet come to our planet, xinhuanet.com reported on Tuesday. Related readings: Expert predicts possible UFO appearance Around China: UFO not from space UFO remains a mystery Experts cool on private sheepskin ugg boots plane theory in UFO probe Flights diverted, delayed as UFO detected hovering UFO disrupts air traffic in E China Zhu Jin says aliens are likely to be living on some terrestrial planets, explaining that since there are about one trillion planets going around fixed stars like the Earth around the sun, the possibility of our planet being the only one with living creatures is too slim to be true. But as to the UFO reports, he said they cannot be true. Some so-called UFOs were proved to be planes, kites or other normal objects, and many weird ugg boots sale situations can be re-demonstrated. He also said the distance that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled in the past air max 33 years only accounts for one-thousandth

of the solar system's reach. It will take 10,000 years for human beings to visit planets outside the solar system. So if aliens living in a faraway planet have a similar level of intelligence as human beings, it's impossible for them to travel to Earth. The best way to find and communicate with aliens is to send radio signals, he added. A new system to protect privacy and reduce spam messages will require all mobile users to subscribe with their real names, effective September 1, 2010, the Beijing News reported on Tuesday. Related readings: Official denies report on mobile real name registration Gamers back real-name registration: Poll Real-name train ticket ends in S. China Employees at entertainment venues must register real name The statement released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said the real name cellphone registration policy will be implemented uk ugg boots in two phases: New users after September 1 must subscribe to the cellphone adidas soccer numbers using their identities; in three years, all old users' information will be with their real names. About 321 million cellphone carriers did not register louis vuitton store using their real names, according to one estimate. Measures such as cutting calling rates for users will be employed to encourage them to provide their identity. This regulation is effective for all mobile phone subscribers as well as users of Little Smart, a wireless phone for fixed telephone networks. Some cheap winter boots users are concerned that the identification system may lead to their private information being leaked. But Xiang Ligang, president of CCTIME, an online consultant in the communication industry, confirmed its benefits, adding that this system will bring convenience to e-businesses and other services such as GPS.

BEIJING adidas outlet - Outside the consulting room of a maternity hospital in Nanjing, an expectant mother, surnamed Lin, was trying to persuade a doctor to perform a cesarean section on her. "My stomach hurts a lot," Lin said, looking hopefully into the eyes of the doctor. "Please expedite the delivery." Two nurses take care of newborn infants in No 1 People's Hospital in Xiangfan city, Hubei province, on Aug 27. [Gong Bo / for China Daily] After a physical examination, the doctor found Lin did not have any physical parturient symptoms, and she only wanted a C-section so that her child, who was due on Sept 5, could be born before Sept 1, the cut-off date for primary school admissions. Related readings: C-section rates highest in China, reasons mixed C-section epidemic hits China: WHO After C-section, stitches or staples? Lin is not the winter boots only pregnant woman who wants her child to be born before Sept 1. "It's the same case every year at the end of August," said Wang Xin, head uggs on sale of the maternity department of the Nanjing Maternity and Child Health Hospital. Primary schools in China only give admission to children who turn 6-years-old on or before Aug uggs on sale 31. Those born later - even on Sept 2 - have to wait a full year before entering school. August saw a 17-percent jump in the number of C-sections compared with July in the Weihai maternity hospital in Shandong province, according

to hospital records. Shan Ruiqin, director of the maternity department at the Jinan Maternity and Child Health Hospital, louis vuitton outlet said nearly 900 babies were born in the hospital in August, compared with a monthly average of 700 births in the first seven months of this year. Many hospitals in Beijing had witnessed a "clear surge" in the number of births over the past two weeks, with nearly "80 percent" of expectant mothers requesting the operation. "We were trying to control the number," said Wang Jie, an official from the press department of the Beijing Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital. "We refused to perform C-sections on those who did not show any physical parturient symptoms". Zhao Kai, 39, whose daughter was born through a C-section nike air max shoes last week, said: "It would be unfair if my daughter had to wait a full year to enter school just because she was born a few days after the ridiculous admission deadline. All her classmates would be so much younger, and would probably treat her differently." However, a primary school teacher was of a different opinion. "I believe an older student would perform better than her younger classmates," said Zhao Yurong, discount uggs a Chinese language teacher at Beijing Zhenzhilu Primary School. "The mental development of junior grade students depends on their age. So younger students, in general, do not have an advantage over those who are half a year older," Zhao said. She added that poor performances can hurt children deeply at an age when they are building their self-confidence. "I really don't think parents snow boots should be so bothered about meeting the Sept 1 deadline when it comes to the birth of their child."

XIAMEN - One typhoon and two tropical storms are forecast winter boots to land or brush past East and South China coasts on Tuesday and Wednesday. The converging forces will bring heavy rain to the region as they move further northwest A woman struggles against the wind and rain in advance of tropical storm Namtheum on Tuesday in Shatian town in East China's Fujian province. [Wei Peiquan / Xinhua] Because of the storms, all high schools, primary schools and kindergartens in Shanghai suspended classes for Wednesday to ensure the safety of students, following a decision by the Shanghai municipal government on Tuesday night. Related readings: China to battle storms following heat wave Further storms forecast as death toll continues to climb Storms wreck havoc in Xinjiang Bizarre storms batter South China, kill dozens The storms also led to the evacuation of nearly 138,000 people in Fujian province and stranded hundreds of passengers in Zhejiang province after shipping services were cut on Monday. The national meteorological center of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) on Tuesday sounded an orange alarm - second air jordan 11 in urgency to red - as the escalating tropical storms joined the typhoon to winter boots threaten the region. "Three storms affecting Chinese costal areas at the same time is very rare," said Chen Zhenlin, director of the disaster relief and public service department of the CMA. He added the typhoon and cheap ugg boots tropical storms developed in just 40 hours after the first one took shape on Sunday.

Chen also warned that more typhoons could hit China in autumn. The storms were influencing one another, increasing the uncertainty of their directions of movement, strength and duration, which exacerbated difficulties for forecasting and defence, the CMA ugg boot said in a report. Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu called for enhanced weather monitoring and forecasting, for people to be evacuated from threatened areas and for ships to take shelter at ports. Hui said special attention should be paid to secondary disasters, such as landslides being triggered by heavy downpours. The coming tropical storms are Lionrock, the name of a hill in Hong Kong, and Namtheum, the name of air max shoes a river in Laos. They are joined by Typhoon Kompasu, which means compass prada handbags in Japanese. Kompasu, moving northwest at a speed of up to 20 kilometers per adidas shoes hour, had already stranded 170 tourists, including six Russians, on Monday in Nanji Island of Zhejiang province, as its strong winds cut off ship services linking Nanji to the mainland, local police said. Also in Zhejiang, more than 200 tourists and residents had been evacuated from Dachen Island of Taizhou city in case Kompasu paralyzes the navigation routes, Xinhua News Agency reported. About 48,000 fishing ships in Fujian had safely returned to port by Tuesday afternoon, local media reported. Wei Tian and Cao Yin contributed to this story.

BEIJING - An alarm over massive environmental damage along the Yangtze River ugg boots and its Three Gorges reservoir has been raised by officials as authorities plan to spend billions of yuan treating sewage and planting forests in a major clean-up campaign. "Generally speaking, the ecological state (of the river) is still far from what the people are demanding," said Jia Zhibang, director of the State Forestry Administration at a press conference organized by the State Council Information Office on Tuesday. Related readings: Yangtze city at center of China's latest flood battle Millions affected by floods along Yangtze River Yangtze River is 40M years older than thought Toxic liquids dumped near Yangtze River "For numerous reasons, the forests on both sides of the river have been seriously degraded, as is reflected in barren mountains and hills that have led to repeated natural disasters." The environment of the Yangtze River, China's longest waterway which flows through 19 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, is crucial to the safety and wellbeing of more than 400 million people living in the river prada purses basin which covers 18.75 percent of the country's total land area, Jia said. An increase in forest coverage along the 600-kilometer-long water area behind the Three Gorges Dam to 65 percent from the current 22 percent is a crucial part of the plan, Chongqing mayor Huang Qifan said at the same news briefing. The forestry campaign is air jordan 12 predicted to cost more than 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) over the next three to five years. But plans ugg boots to clean the river also target sheepskin ugg boots urban pollution. Chongqing, a mega-city of more than 30 million people upriver from the reservoir, is set to invest heavily in wastewater treatment, Huang said. While about 75 percent of the city's sewage is treated before disposal in the river and about 80 percent of garbage is buried or treated, this is still not enough for a healthy river, Huang said. To combat river pollution, Chongqing, which has invested 50 billion yuan

on sewage treatment facilities in recent years, will invest another 28 billion yuan over the next three years, Huang said. A weekly report released by the Environmental Monitoring of China agency on Aug 17 revealed that just two of the 18 monitoring stations along the Yangtze River graded the water quality as good. The total volume of sewage discharged into the river reached nearly 30 billion tons, including at least 9 billion tons of domestic ugg boots sewage in 2005, according to louis vitton an annual report by the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission. The river is facing serious pollution with tons of sewage discharged into it every second, Ma Yi, deputy chief of the regional bureau of East China Sea fishery management, which is affiliated to the Ministry of Agriculture, told the Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post in July. Launched by the Ministry of Environmental Protection, a two-month national crackdown on potentially polluting chemical factories situated near rivers and lakes starts in September, the 21st Century Business Herald reported. About 400,000 chemical factories are estimated to be inspected in the campaign, said Zou Shoumin, director of the ministry's environmental supervisory bureau. In a related development, environmental group Greenpeace China has released a report on its website claiming that two kinds of Yangtze River fish, catfish and carp, were found to be tainted with chemicals from industrial waste, namely, alkylphenols and perfluorinated compounds. Greenpeace took 32 samples near four cities situated along the river, and tested them with an independent organization. The tests showed that synthetic chemicals were found in all the sampled fish. The fish, part of the diet of many people, could carry "hormones, such as natural estrogens, or upset the normal functioning of the endocrine (glands) system in other ways," warned Wu Yixiu, a campaigner for Greenpeace China. However, Zhai Yuxiu, deputy director with the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute at the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, expressed doubt over the report's credibility. "It's undeniable that some fish in nike air max the Yangtze River are polluted by industrial chemicals, but still, such a small sample hardly reflects overall fish quality and it is unclear whether the fish could damage people's health," Zhai told China Daily on