Shanghai Expo news in brief

Jackson returns

The wax replica of deceased American pop star Michael Jackson is on show in the DEVNET Pavilion until Tuesday in memory of the controversial star's sudden death a year ago. Madame Tussauds, a wax museum, made the wax replica. The museum's other works will also be shown in the Expo Garden, including the wax replicas of English soccer stars Wayne Rooney and David Beckham.

Gold standard

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The Expo organizer issued 2010 pairs of commemorative gold bars themed after the China Pavilion on Sunday. The gold bars weigh 25 grams each. One of the bars in the pair is carved with the China Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle 1867 in Paris, the other with the China Pavilion at the Expo 2010 Shanghai. Every pair of the gold bars has a unique serial number and certificate of authentication.

Numbers up

The number of visitors to Expo 2010 Shanghai exceeded 20 million as of 10 am on Monday, the 59th day since the event's formal opening on May 1. The Expo organizer expects the number of daily visitors to rise sharply in the coming months, as students across the country begin their summer vacations.

Easy tickets

Five train ticket vending machines were placed in the China Railway Pavilion to help visitors from other parts of the country when booking tickets back home. The machines sell bullet train tickets up to 10 days before departure.