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TALKING about the rich and their wealth can always be entertaining, especially in China where a large number of affluent people seem to have sprung up overnight.
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- Room at the top
TALKING about the rich and their wealth can always be entertaining, especially in China where a large number of affluent people seem to have sprung up overnight.
- Money talks
DESPITE the absence of top officials from the central government, the Forbes Global CEO Conference, being staged in Shanghai this week, is still a high-level gathering.
- Growing concerns
A LACK of "giants" is casting an ever heavier shadow over the city's private businesses.
- Inadequate sex appeal
IT'S now official - the Ancient Chinese Sex Culture Museum, once located in the city's busiest street, Nanjing Donglu, is to move to Tongli Town in neighbouring Jiangsu Province because it can't afford to stay in Shanghai.
- Sexual wisdom
PROFESSOR Liu Dalin's early research focused on marriage. He read a lot of books about China's sex culture written by foreign scholars but found very few that were written by Chinese themselves.
- Moving doesn't mean losing
AFTER the news of the sex museum's move spread, many people worried Shanghai would miss its local treasure.
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- Euro minefield
BRUSSELS - By resoundingly rejecting the euro, Sweden's voters may hasten the advent of a two-speed Europe, in which a core of member states belonging to the single currency system push ahead with integration leaving others behind, analysts say.
- Bin Laden sends defiant message to the world
SINGAPORE - Two middle-aged Arabs walking down a rock-strewn hillside leaning on canes may appear harmless. When the pair are Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, the stroll is no less than a renewed declaration of war.
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| Voice of people |
- I'd like to teach the world to sing
I wish I had been brought up with karaoke. I think it should be added to the curriculum of every school in England immediately.
- Lost in a television desert
I feel I am being hopelessly stultified by the TV series that I am compelled to hook onto in the evenings to while away the time - the meagre pension I am entitled to means I have forfeited my right to gain admission to live theatrical performances.
- Heart of darkness in Cancun
For sheer foaming carpet-chewing frustration it is hard to beat world trade talks, as they have crawled their way like a crippled snail from the protectionist nightmare of the 1930s through the GATT mechanism and into the WTO.
- It's becoming popular to blame China
The US economy has not been too healthy for quite some time. Sackings, redundancies and closures of entire factories capture headlines in the newspapers daily. Of course, it is all the fault of China, the workshop of the world.
- Progress for customers
I recently recalled one of my articles entitled "Thoughts from Street Cleaning", in which I talked about the undesirable working time schedule of the city's street cleaners, which overlaps that of ordinary people's working schedule. Today I am still caught in layers of dust on my way to school. Various experiences have made me fully aware of the fact that change needs time and courage.
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- Partner in success
IN Jens Jepsen's office, he has hung his favourite pictures taken on top of Mount Kilimanjaro when he was 60 years old. Next to the photographs is an old world map he discovered in a bookstore.
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- Fear of fortune
UNLIKE Westerners, who typically feel proud of their prosperity and like to show it off, well-to-do Chinese appear to want to hide their wealth.
- Business on the Bund in war and peace
THE Bund area has been touched upon again and again in this column and the reason is easy to see - it is the epitome of Shanghai.
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