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WITH the declaration of this year's Champion of the Shanghai International Fashion Model Contest, the curtain closed on the city's 20-day annual fashion festival.
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- City armed to prevent SARS
WINDY Huang, a local lawyer working in an office building on Nanjing Xilu, started wearing a mask one week ago despite her colleagues laughing at her or passers-by looking at her like a monster.
- Fight against infectious diseases urged
"THE fight against infectious diseases is endless and much more investment needs to be added to the public health budget to win the battle," said professor Yu Shunzhang of the Public Health School at Fudan University and the most authoritative epidemiologist in Shanghai.
- Paris of the East - again
WITH the declaration of this year's Champion of the Shanghai International Fashion Model Contest, the curtain closed on the city's 20-day annual fashion festival.
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| Voice of people |
- Terror over Iraqi civilians
The suffering of the Iraqi civilians during the ongoing war have made many people around me indignant and heart-broken.
- It's the media that's diseased, not China
So it's here. It's amongst us. Shanghai's first official case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) was announced recently and no doubt many now have their forefingers firmly placed on the panic button.
- Three cheers for bold experiment
Looking back upon the process of "reform and opening up" it is easy to underestimate the political courage this astonishing social achievement required. After all, how is it possible any longer to deny that the market-oriented transformation of the Chinese economy was destined to succeed?
- Do the public know?
We are living in an age where new health hazards are brought to our attention on an almost daily basis. And nine times out of ten, all that's needed to eradicate these risks is an alteration to our daily routines. So what I want to know is, why do we keep ignoring the warnings?
- After-life belief has grave outcome
While it is arguably true that most people, as busy as bees collecting honey, snatch at every opportunity to better themselves, and some others, resorting to tricks or luck, seek to become celebrities or millionaires overnight, there are some people already planning for the after-life.
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- Beautiful body of work
REPORTERS attending artist Yang Feiyun's press conference for his first solo exhibition recognized his wife ahead of the artist himself because her image dominated the works on display.
- New twist to old game
IT is 11:30pm, bone-piercingly cold and in the lonely shadows of Malmskillnadsgatan, the oldest game in the world is in play.
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- All the tea in China
A POPULAR proverb in China says: "Better to go without salt for three days than without tea for a single day."
- Old station crosses communication gap
GOING along Tianmu Donglu, passers-by may notice an old-fashioned building under renovation. Surrounded by high-rises, the three-storey British-style building looks a bit out of place.
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