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NEXT spring will be bright and sunny, flowers will be out in full and women will be flirty and feminine if fashion designers have their way.
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| Life Style |
- Madonna: 'liberated' children's author
POP star Madonna, who built her fame with catchy songs, sexy outfits, steamy videos and a raunchy persona, said on Monday that producing her new children's book was a "tremendously liberating" experience.
- Road to Edinburgh
Fran Healy of Travis performs at the Royal Festival Hall, London at the start of the MTV Road to Edinburgh tour September 29. The tour will lead to the 10th annual music awards ceremony to be held in Edinburgh in October.
- All-round actress
Hong Kong actress Carina Lau attends a news conference to promote a cosmetic product in Hong Kong September 29. Lau recently starred in "Infernal Affairs 2", which won seven awards in the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards presentation in April.
- Mobo singers
The girls from British band Big Brovaz, nominated for three awards, arrive at the Royal Albert Hall, London, September 25, where some of the biggest names in R&B, hip-hop, garage and reggae attended the annual Music of Black Origin Awards (Mobo).
- Songs for soldiers
Actor Bruce Willis, wearing a US Air Force flight suit, plays a tambourine as he performs along with his band The Accelerators, September 24. Willis is touring with his blues band for the United Service
- 2004 Oscar host
Actor and comedian Billy Crystal poses between two large Oscar statues after Oscar telecast producer Joe Roth named Crystal the host of the 76th annual Academy Awards telecast during a press conference at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, September 24. The Oscars will be telecast from the Kodak theatre in Hollywood February 29, 2004.
- Disputed marriage
French actress Clotilde Courau smiles as she receives a kiss from her new husband Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, grandson of Italy's last king, following their marriage at Rome's elite Santa Maria degli Angeli church September 25. Less than a year after Italy ended a 56-year exile imposed on the heirs to the Italian throne for collaboration with Fascists, Emanuele Filiberto has grabbed headlines with his plans to wed the French commoner.
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| Fashion |
- Bright, sunny, colourful spring
NEXT spring will be bright and sunny, flowers will be out in full and women will be flirty and feminine if fashion designers have their way.
- Imaginative time-keeping
SWATCH is launching its New Original Series of Wristwatches Designed for the Autumn and Winter of 2003 at the opening ceremony of its first flagship store in Shanghai.
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| Health |
- Cheaper drugs
LOCAL residents will have more access to cheaper drugs now that the municipal government has acted to encourage fair-price drugstores.
- Pink ribbon of hope
A NEON pink ribbon (emblem of Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Prevention and Cure) will twinkle on a liner on the Huangpu River in October for 10 nights.
- Strengthening French ties
SHANGHAI Second Medical University (SSMU) is sparing no effort to seek co-operation with France.
- AIDS Prevention Education
A DRAMA, "Life Is So Good", designed to educate young people about AIDS prevention, will be touring the city's higher education institutions until December.
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| Travel |
- Happy days are here again ...
The ongoing Tourism Festival comes into full flower during the upcomingNational Day Holiday. Colourful cultural and tourist activities have been prepared for the show so let's sit back, relax and have an enjoyable National Day!
- Wong Tai Sin comes home from Hong Kong
ACCORDING to legend, Wong Tai Sin was a shepherd boy living in a part of Zhejiang Province called Red Pine Hill. When he was only 15, an immortal taught him the art of refining cinnabar into a medicine that was said to cure all illnesses.
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- Wedding blow-out
SHE'S decked out like a fairytale Arabian prince, with a silver dagger and dragon-headed staff. She's a princess in pink, dripping with gold and crowned with a glittering tiara.
- Mothers' sacrifice
ALONG the narrow corridors of Pearl Centre, a busy shopping complex in Singapore's Chinatown, women from China sit outside foot reflexology shops and massage parlours, beckoning customers to come in.
- Russian women turn to hired-husbands
NINA Rakhmanina is single.
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| What's on |
- EXHIBITIONS
Painting show
- Shanghai Grand Stage
1111 Caoxi Beilu
- Beauty of old Shanghai
"CHANG Hen Ge", or "Song of Everlasting Sorrow", will be re-staged in October after undergoing some major alterations to the script, the stage design and the cast.
- Lascivious blossoms
WANG Xiaohui, one of the best-known contem-porary women photographers in China, describes herself as a person "with many hearts jumping in one chest".
- Japanese jump into new 'Lake'
SUPPOSE the ballet "Swan Lake" was put in a real setting rather than in a fairytale palace? What if Siegfried was really the Crown Prince of the Holy Roman Empire?
- Glamour chamber music
NEXT Sunday, the internationally renowned Australian String Quartet will be performing in the Glamour Room at M on the Bund - the final act of the Shanghai section of their world tour.
- Sculptured in light
WHEN hearing of Baroque luminarie, probably many will shake their heads, saying: "I don't know. What is it?"
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