Exposure
Ding Xiaohuo is never going to ski the Alps or see the changing of the guard outside Buckingham Palace. Like most Chinese his age, he'll never even see a real passport with his photo on it.
The vagaries of the city's weather cannot stop enthusiastic visitors from all over the world coming to Expo 2010 Shanghai. With a continuously increasing number of visitors, the demand for staff at the Expo Garden has increased as well.
Remember the fun you had with soap bubbles when you were a kid? Well, it seems like Pep Bou just can't seem to let it go. So much so that the Spanish artist has created the world's only Soap Bubble Theater.
Controversial Taiwan writer Li Ao found time to pray for cross-Straits peace at the Taiwan Pavilion recently as he returned to the mainland for only the second time in his life to visit the Expo 2010 Shanghai.
With the theme "Heaven in Tibet," the exhibition of Tibet's cultural heritage is undoubtedly the highlight of the Tibet Week, which began on Sept 1 at the Expo 2010 Shanghai, Tibet is a region endowed with a rich ethnic and folk cultural heritage. In its long history, Tibetans have created and inherited a large amount of cultural heritage, which has a great variety and many unique characteristics.
A chilled room in the Kazakhstan Pavilion, replete with artificial snow, gives visitors an idea what it is like to live in the second-coldest capital city in the world - Astana.
Some of Shanghai's best eateries are hidden away, but are well worth the hunt, Xu Junqian tracks them down.