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In downtown Shanghai, Xizang Street, was the first travel agency in the city, "Spring Travel" opened in 80 years. Its premises were razed under the modernization program in the area, an opportunity to review an area of growing tourism.

The famous American newspaper and its archives are available free online from today.

The Director General of Renault, Patrick Pelata, provides, in an interview with the guardian newspaper dated Thursday 23 August, the automaker is "not very worried" about its ability to increase its sales by 800,000 vehicles between 2005 and 2009.

World Cup rubgy, to take place from 7 September in ten stages french as well as Great Britain, should not cause more than 200 000 hotel nights in total, half of the 400 000 recorded during nights World Cup Football 1998.

For Dominique Raspaud, meteorologist at Meteo France, is clear: "the summer of 2007 is rotten," one of the coldest since the 1980s (except in summer 2000). With two exceptions: the Mediterranean and the Midi-Pyrenees.

After decades of misfortunes (genocide, civil war, poverty, exile, corruption, AIDS ...), luck seems to smile Cambodia: the country is about to become a producer of gas and oil.