Setember 11-17,2003


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Facing cancer

Hong Kong artist Anita Mui, 40, speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong September 5. Mui announced on Friday she has cervical cancer.
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Andrey returns with Golden Lion

Left: Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev holds up his Golden Lion for the best film at the 60th Venice Film Festival September 6. Zvyagintsev won with the film "The Return".
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Star-crossed 'Butterfly Lovers' - where the legend began

THE most famous love story in China is "Butterfly Lovers", China's equivalent of the West's "Romeo and Juliet".
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Through a lens darkly

IN Jin Wei's eyes, a building 10 metres away is just a quivering, fuzzy blur.
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Socks king raises himself up by his bootstraps

ORIGINALLY an impoverished farmer who was forced to drop out of high school but who is now the president of an enterprise with annual revenue of 60 million yuan (US$7.25 million), Shi Haiyun said lack of education had been the biggest obstacle on his way to success.
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Waking a sleeping dog
RABIES is an infectious disease with a high death rate in China, according to the inistry of Health.
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The future is retro -with a dash of sport
FASHION does not allow anything to spoil our sense of fun and it is always there to lift our spirits.
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Big stink over smell
MANY residents in Nanjing, the capital of East China's Jiangsu Province, awoke last Monday to find an extremely offensive smell had returned to their neighbourhoods, the Xiandai Kuaibao has reported.
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Mooncake lunacy
Beware when you receive mooncakes as a present from your subordinates or businessmen if you are a man invested with absolute authority. I do not mean these mooncakes are laced with poison, or you're running the risk of being reprimanded for accepting a box of ordinary dim sum. No, far from it. see more
The ultimate tourist challenge
It's tough being a tourist. I know, I've tried. It really isn't as easy as it sounds. I tried really hard to be a tourist this weekend, when I visited the island of Putuoshan. Now I'm worried that I'm just not cut out for it. All that relaxation and no stress, it's just so demanding! see more
Peasant productivity
Many commentators on contemporary China, even - or perhaps especially - locals, tend to regard the country's farmers as a problem. The relative poverty and sheer immensity of the Chinese peasant population is considered to be a serious matter for concern. Furthermore, when rural people flood into the cities as "migrant workers" they are often the objects of suspicion or even contempt by established urbanites.
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Zhang Zhenlian
'Piercing the veil' of beggary
Not long ago, a group of reporters were sent by a newspaper to observe, day and night, some beggars in their city, in an attempt to identify whether they were real beggars, or, to put it more accurately, to expose their falsity. The money and energy spent in this activity brought "satisfactory" results - the beggars proved false! The media was quickly praised for the "truth" it had brought us.
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 Focus more...

Waking a sleeping dog
RABIES is an infectious disease with a high death rate in China, according to the inistry of Health.
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MORE FOCUS
  Waking a sleeping dog
  Love me, love my dog
  Safely labelled
  City on high alert


 Life more...

The future is retro -with a dash of sport
FASHION does not allow anything to spoil our sense of fun and it is always there to lift our spirits.
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MORE LIFE
  I am not interested in husband hunting: Zeta-Jones
  Youth for sale
  The future is retro -with a dash of sport
  Answering the call from beyond
 Nation more...

Big stink over smell
MANY residents in Nanjing, the capital of East China's Jiangsu Province, awoke last Monday to find an extremely offensive smell had returned to their neighbourhoods, the Xiandai Kuaibao has reported.
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MORE NATION
Pollution crackdown nets 486 violators
 Ban on 'capitalism'


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Screaming stunts
A SKATER approaches the rail head on, turns 180 degrees in the air, comes down and races away. Perfect! Bravo! Every stunt happens in the blink of an eye. This is the action at ESPN's 2003 Asian X-tour in Shanghai.FULL STORY

 

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