The Peel Group, an infrastructure and real-estate outfit, hosted a pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo last year.
The Shanghai government partnered with the Bureau International des Expositions to build a massive 35, 000sqm World Expo Museum.
From May China will be visited by a series of foreign leaders going to the World Expo in Shanghai.
Does the President expect to stop in Shanghai at the World Expo ground?
He also received a briefing on the Yeosu World Expo and met the President of Yonhap news agency, Park Jung-chan.
Like the Beijing 2008 Olympics or the Shanghai 2010 World Expo.
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The revision came days before the opening of the six-month Shanghai World Expo, which organizers expect will draw more than 70 million people.
It has cancelled a Chinese government-sponsored visit by 1, 000 young Japanese people to the World Expo in Shanghai (again citing an inappropriate atmosphere).
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With the 2012 World Expo taking place in nearby Yeosu this summer, the city is sure to snag more of the international limelight.
Those are not the sole focus of my book, which explores topics ranging from Confucian thought to consumer culture, from generation gaps to the World Expo.
Since then, two events, the Beijing Olympics later that year and the Shanghai World Expo of 2010, might have served as coming-out parties for a rising China.
Currently under construction, the 40-storey Cajasol Tower is being built on the former site of the 1992 World Expo in La Cartuja, a neighbourhood that Seville has struggled to redevelop.
There is of course a tremendous amount of effort that goes into the marketing of a city to be a true contender for the Olympic games or to host the world EXPO.
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Trajectory: Shanghai has breathed life into the World Expo movement because this is the 21st Century, and it belongs to China as did the 19th Century to England and the 20th to America.
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Air China told Reuters the total investment and overall size of the joint venture's fleet had yet to be agreed, but it hopes to have a deal finalized before the Shanghai World Expo begins in May 2010.
The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the World Expo, funded by local state enterprises, commissioned a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer, Liu Heung Shing, to compile a book of images of Shanghai's history, giving him unprecedented access to the city's archives.
These corrupt officials and police don't want to lose that income, so they let brothels operate freely as long as they don't become hubs for more serious crimes, like drug sales, or violence--and as long as there isn't overwhelming political will to shut things down, as there was around the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the run up to the World Expo in Shanghai this year.
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Every business has its boondoggles, and for those in the world music trade, the World Music Expo otherwise known as WOMEX is it.
Tony Riffel owns Octane Coffee in Atlanta and was watching the 10th annual World Barista Championship, held in conjunction with the expo at the Georgia World Congress Center.
But gamers who already loved the expansive, altered-reality world of the series first met her in 2011 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the world's largest video-game gathering.
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But at the recent CEDIA Expo, the annual extravaganza of the home theater world, I spent hours looking at dozens of HDTV sets.
The city's lavish spending on the expo is all the more striking given how lacklustre a brand World Expos (or World's Fairs as they are sometimes known) have become in the developed world.
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