SHANGHAI, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- At a symbolic signing ceremony today on the banks of the Huangpu River, leading pioneer automobile brand Mercedes-Benz became the naming rights partner of the arena currently under construction in Shanghai.

By Cao Li SHANGHAI: Shanghai's World Expo 2010 will feature a floating pavilion housing exhibits from the Netherlands. Bart van Bueren, chief architect of DeltaSync, told China Daily the pavilion will be built on a platform anchored to the bed of the Huangpu River.

By Zou Huilin and Wu Chong Shanghai, the pulse of China's economy and a city built on the coast, has a romantic name, which means "go to sea" - shang (going) hai (sea). Now the city faces the risk of actually going under the sea, according to new scientific claims.

By Miao Qing Shanghai: Shanghai is planning to finish the decade-long cleanup of Suzhou Creek by the end of 2008 and then set up a monitoring and cleaning mechanism to make sure it does not return to its polluted state, a local water authority said yesterday.

By Miao Qing SHANGHAI: When people think of the Bund in Shanghai, thoughts turn to the barges chugging along the Huangpu River and architecture that is a reminder of time when life was slower and less intense.