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"SHANGHAI really is a big city," Luo Zhou said in a low voice. Coming from Jiayu County of Central China's Hubei Province, Luo's first journey to Shanghai failed to light up his face. "I was very tired," he said.
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- Book ban backdown
LAWYER Zhu Yuantao, appearing for the first time in court as a plaintiff, has finally managed to force the customs office at Beijing Airport to return to him a book it had confiscated more than a year ago.
- Education on credit
"SHANGHAI really is a big city," Luo Zhou said in a low voice. Coming from Jiayu County of Central China's Hubei Province, Luo's first journey to Shanghai failed to light up his face. "I was very tired," he said.
- Funding excellence
ZHANG Yan had arrived in Shanghai for the first time to begin life as a university student and was looking around at what was to be her new home for the next few years. "What a big city," Zhang said excitedly.
- Obstacle courses
WHILE some college students have started to adopt personal computers and digital videos as their new playthings, there still exists a group of students struggling to find the basic necessities of life.
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- Sliding to the sidelines
BANGKOK, Thailand - It's a summit that's supposed to be dedicated to economies and Japan's is the second largest in the world behind the United States. But as the annual gathering of Pacific Rim leaders wrapped up last Tuesday, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi found himself largely relegated to playing follow-the-leader.
- Mahathir maintains 'Jews rule the world'
BANGKOK, Thailand - Despite a barrage of international criticism over his allegedly anti-Semitic remarks, an unrepentant Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad maintains that Jews are arrogant and insists they do control the world.
- Vital partnership
BANGKOK - The Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) forum has extended a strong boost to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to restart the stalled negotiations on the Doha Round trade talks, and urged better co-ordination on international anti-terror efforts.
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- Free to grow
Social development is essentially identical to urbanization. This assertion might sound brutally dogmatic, but its economic basis is exceptionally solid. Since the proportion of average incomes dedicated to food declines with a rise in overall prosperity, rural populations must either move into alternative fields of endeavour or fall behind. Rural life is badly suited to non-agricultural production, so economic development necessarily entails the progressive urbanization of the population.
- Sad time for ad lovers
A bad news recently came for lovers of TV commercials, like me. The State Bureau of Broadcasting, Movies and TV recently released a regulation on the restriction of TV commercials, saying that no commercials can be inserted into TV dramas during the prime time from 7:00-9:00pm every evening. Other restrictions include a 20 per cent cap on the proportion of commercials played on any channel each day and a tighter 15 per cent cap on commercials played between 7:00-9:00pm. During dining times, commercials for certain drugs and hygiene products are forbidden.
- Has pragmatism gone too far?
Xinhua reported on September 15 that 11 reporters had been found guilty of being involved in the botched cover-up of an underground explosion that occurred on June 22, 2002, in the Yixingzhai gold mine of Fanzhi County, Shanxi Province. The explosion killed 38 miners.
- No auto-culture yet, thank God
China's transportation used to be bound up with bicycles and non-motorized vehicles. But when, in the mid-1980s, low-cost car models entered the Chinese market it became possible for more Chinese to buy an automobile.
- Chinese Characters, beauty or burden?
Until 1443 the Koreans are reputed to have used Chinese characters to commit their thoughts to paper, oracle bones, tortoise shells, lavatory walls or whatever could be written upon.
- No justice in pop frenzy
Thanks to the introduction of high-tech, I was able to watch on TV as Cai Qin and Fei Yuqing - both from Taiwan - crooned old, nostalgic tunes from the 1930s, exercising an indescribable fascination over me.
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- Ordeals of justice
IF an injustice is done to a Chinese citizen today, he can make a shangfang (an appeal to a higher judicial authority) for redress but in ancient times people were in a miserable position when seeking redress for wrongs.
- When Grant came to Shanghai
MORE than 30 years ago, US President Richard Nixon's "ice-breaking journey" to China brought forth the Shanghai Communique and the easing of Sino-US tensions. Following in his footsteps, Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also visited Shanghai as part of US foreign policy strategy.
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