The cost of relocating villagers to make way for the first phase of the planned Shanghai Disney Park is expected to reach six billion yuan (US$880 million), state media said Friday.

Five Filipino transvestites have gone on trial in Shanghai, accused of drugging men with adulterated foods before robbing them in a city with a reputation for an adventurous nightlife.

Construction of a high-speed rail link between Shanghai and the nearby city of Hangzhou is raising protests among residents who say the trains will run too close to their apartments — the latest hiccup in the long-debated project.

Tourists visiting Shanghai for next year's World Expo could be confused by signs on wet floors reading “Slip Carefully!”

Blackstone Group LP, the world's biggest buyout company, plans to form a yuan-denominated private equity fund with the Shanghai government to invest in Chinese companies, according to an official from the Shanghai Pudong government financial services division.

Shanghai's first sex-education camp for children aged eight to 13 began this week, but only six boys enrolled and the girls' section was cancelled, state media reported Thursday.

The “heaviest rains in 70 years” lashed Shanghai Thursday, flooding 3,000 homes and leaving nearly 2,000 travelers stranded at the city's airports, state media reported.

China State Construction Engineering Corp., the nation's largest housing contractor, raised 50.16 billion yuan (US$7.3 billion) in Shanghai in the world's biggest initial public offering in 16 months.

Family planning officials in Shanghai are making home visits and slipping leaflets under doorways to encourage certain residents to have a second child in a bid to balance the city's expanding senior population.

Heavy cloud and rain are likely to ruin the party for millions of people hoping to watch Wednesday's eclipse in Shanghai and other parts of eastern China, meteorologists said.