TWO foreigners, one of them 90 years old, yesterday received Shanghai's top honor for outsiders.

Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong presented them with Honorary Citizen of Shanghai awards and also awarded 10 others Shanghai Magnolia Gold Awards in recognition of their contributions to the city's development.

The two recipients of honorary citizenship are Linda Tsao Yang, Chairwoman Emeritus of Asian Corporate Governance Association, and Wong Fatt Heng, General Manager of Roche Diagnostics (Shanghai) Ltd.