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FOR a long time, blood donations in the city had a compulsory element - people chosen as donors had to give blood and, in return, were compensated for it and were given holidays.
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- Answering the call
FOR a long time, blood donations in the city had a compulsory element - people chosen as donors had to give blood and, in return, were compensated for it and were given holidays.
- RH negative in demand
RH negative blood is urgently needed in the city, according to Xie Yunzheng, manager of social services for the Shanghai (Red Cross) Blood Centre.
- Cleaning up the supply
THE 25-year-old Luo Jie said he had never donated or received blood. "I am worried that blood donation and using other's blood is not very safe." He said some of his friends also had similar worries.
- Process of blood donation
PREVIOUSLY, the Shanghai (Red Cross) Blood Centre used bottles which were repeatedly sterilized. Now it uses disposable equipment which has been sterilized at 121 C. The blood donation site is also sterilized twice everyday.
- Bloody business
AS WITH "snake head", a special new word - "blood head" - has appeared in the Chinese vocabulary over recent years, referring to a person who profits from organizing people to sell their blood.
- Farmers targeted
"SELL blood - as long as I'm alive and till the end of my life," has long been a popular saying among farmers making a living by selling their blood or blood plasma in Henan, Qinghai, Gansu and other poverty-stricken provinces.
- Quality canines
A DOG equivalent to the price of a limousine? That was the question asked by a news reporter at the first ever dog auction held in China on Monday.
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- Information crucial to development
It is a basic and very simple point in economics that the efficient operation of markets is dependent on the availability of information''.
- Yet another US trade outrage
US President George W. Bush's administration looks set to go down in history for the most disgraceful trade record since the Great Depression. There is something bitterly ironic about the fact that while "anti-globalization" protestors take to the streets to denounce his government, Bush's own trade policies seem to conform to an anti-globalization agenda almost indistinguishable from the one his hooligan opponents are demanding.
- Pull out all stops on organ transplants
"SHANGHAI should legislate on organ transplants" it was reported last week in all media.
- A tale of two city's taxi drivers
If Beijing taxi drivers happen to lose their jobs, they may do very well in another profession: as robbers. However, if robbers find themselves unemployed some day, they may find themselves unfit for the job of Beijing taxi drivers. The reason is, although robbers are as heartless, ferocious and money craving as Beijing taxi drivers, the former are not as brazen as the latter. The former at least need masks or stockings and come out at night but the latter do not need anything and rob you in broad daylight.
- Weird world of revelations
Just imagine that a girl of 25 was talking with relish on the Web about her sexual relationships with various partners of different ages. She does so without showing any trace of feminine shyness, all under the divine banner of individuality.
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- Firing at smoke
IF you are a smoker, it's better for you not to meet Zhang Yue who is being hailed as China's first antismoking crusader.
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- Testament to commercial virtue
FOREIGN audiences were enthralled by Zhang Yimou's Oscar-nominated movie "Raise the Red Lantern", in which the four women of a closed family struggled to win the master's favours.
- Reminiscences of a 'foreign devil'
IN today's Shanghai, probably no Chinese would show surprise when seeing a foreigner walking around town now that Shanghai's openness has attracted so many of them to live and work here.
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