TOKYO -- Japan's Nissin Foods Holdings plans to set up new factories in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland this year, part of the instant noodle maker's push to expand its footprint in China.

A building that was being refurbished collapsed Thursday in downtown Shanghai, and at least five people were killed though 14 have been pulled from the rubble alive, according to wire services.

In the spring of 1998, Australian restaurateur Michelle Garnaut signed a lease for premises on the seventh floor of the 1920s Nissin Shipping Building on the Bund in Shanghai. She already had an ...