Heavy fog has stranded more than 300 vessels in Shanghai since Sunday morning, the local maritime authority said. Visibility was reduced to 1,000 meters, and 500 meters in some worse-hit places, near the Yangtze River Estuary early Sunday morning,... ...full story at People's Daily
from People's Daily on Mon, Feb 09 2009
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