September 11-17.2003

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FASHION does not allow anything to spoil our sense of fun and it is always there to lift our spirits.

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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Professional skills support
TO assist Chinese health-care professionals in receiving continuing education and professional training, the AstraZeneca Academy was set up last week, to introduce the latest international advances in medical field.
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  Feature

Youth for sale
AYANO, a high school student, loves Tokyo's trendy Shibuya District so much she goes there several times a week.
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Italy's City of Ice vanishes as glacier melts
FOR decades, a frozen labyrinth of ice tunnels lay buried deep within the Marmolada glacier on the crest of the Dolomite mountains, hacked out by Austrian troops during World War I.FULL STORY

 


  Fashion

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.
FULL STORY

 

  What's On

EXHIBITIONS
Images vs Impression
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I Have a Date with Spring
The classic Hong Kong play, staged for the first time in the Chinese mainland, tells the story of four young women singers in a club. The play is a semi-musical with lots of song and dance.
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State of the art
THE First Shanghai Spring Art Salon will be held this week in the Everbright Exhibition Centre.FULL STORY

Shaolin spectacle

THE Shaolin Warriors, "the kungfu monks" who have trained at the world-famous Shaolin Temple in Central China's Henan Province, will grace the Shanghai Majestic Theatre again from September 12 to 21.FULL STORY

Rubbings return home

GOOD news for visitors to Shanghai Museum - they will have the chance to see the best Northern Song rubbings from the Chunhua ge tie, recently bought from a US collector for US$4.5 million.FULL STORY

Through Korean eyes

A KOREAN contemporary art exhibition is being held in the Moganshan Lu art community.FULL STORY

 

 

  People

I am not interested in husband hunting: Zeta-Jones
CATHERINE Zeta-Jones may make a marvellous husband hunter in the new screwball comedy "Intolerable Cruelty", but the dark-haired actress says its not a job she would warm to in real life.FULL STORY


Oscar winning exile
Franco-Polish film director Roman Polanski (R) receives an Oscar from American actor Harrison Ford (L) during the American film festival in Deauville, western France, September 7. Polanski won the Oscar for best director for his Holocaust drama "The Pianist" but could not receive it at the Oscar ceremony in May, in the US. Polanski fled the United States for France in 1978 when he faced a a prison sentence for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. He faces arrest if he sets foot in the United States. FULL STORY

'Calender Girls' contribute to charity
Tricia Stewart (L to R), Angela Baker, Beryl Bamforth, Ros Fawcett, Lynda Logan and Christine Clancy pose for photographers in a park in central London, September 2. They are members of the Womens Institute and subjects of the film "Calender Girls", which tells the real life story of them posing naked in a calender to raise money for charity.FULL STORY

Lopez publicizes love affairs

Jennifer Lopez is featured on the cover of the October 2003 issue of "W Magazine". Lopez, FULL STORY

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".FULL STORY

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. FULL STORY

  Health

Cutting your appetite
BOSTON - A protein found naturally in the body could bring scientists a step closer to developing a natural and effective diet pill, a new British study said recently.
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Fat to stop hunger
SCIENTISTS have found clues to how a naturally occurring fat compound blocks hunger, which could pave the way for a new class of safer anti-obesity drugs.
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Professional skills support
TO assist Chinese health-care professionals in receiving continuing education and professional training, the AstraZeneca Academy was set up last week, to introduce the latest international advances in medical field.
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Exercise before surgery aids recovery

WASHINGTON - Exercising before surgery can get the body into shape and help recovery after an operation, US researchers said.FULL STORY

Find where your fat is

YOU could soon go to the gym, step in front of a scanner and find out exactly where the fat needs to come off.FULL STORY

 

 
  Travel

Answering the call from beyond
A VISIT to Mount Emei, one of China's four sacred Buddhist mountains which is located in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, is a perfect escape from the urban jungle of steel and cement.
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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".FULL STORY

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