Another said as many as three astronauts could be aboard, though a Shanghai newspaper put the number at one.

This attempt at culinary seduction ended, according to a Shanghai newspaper, when the police seized 1,523 pounds of opium and closed the restaurants.

"Seeing is believing," one of the students, Qian Yingyi, wrote in a report published in a Shanghai newspaper.

The New People's Evening News, a Shanghai newspaper, reported in October that 72,000 workers had been laid off because of factory closings.

Now the grocery stores offer Shanghai newspapers and Chinese specialties like live eels.

A Shanghai newspaper, Wenhui Daily, reported that a panda had been caught after killing and eating sheep on farms.

"Playing mah-jongg is an ugly social trend," Wenhui Bao, a Shanghai newspaper, declared several months ago.

That did not work, so the factory then dispatched a group of women employees with their babies crying piteously for food, according to an account in an official Shanghai newspaper.

None of the Shanghai newspapers reported this tragedy .

The Shanghai newspapers refused to mention this incident because of political pressure.