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A STORY on a website claims that the HSK test (Chinese Proficiency Test) given to students in the Republic of Korea on November 16 was exactly the same as the one given in Beijing in July, the Oriental Morning Post has reported. The issue has caused great debate among South Korean students.
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- week in brief
SHANGHAI
- Testing time for testers
A STORY on a website claims that the HSK test (Chinese Proficiency Test) given to students in the Republic of Korea on November 16 was exactly the same as the one given in Beijing in July, the Oriental Morning Post has reported. The issue has caused great debate among South Korean students.
- Plague shows signs of slowing
THE rate of increase in the number of HIV carriers and AIDS patients in the city has slowed this year, up by only 6.25 per cent compared with a rise of more than 30 per cent last year over the figure for 2001.
- Bad blood gives AIDS to 54 more haemophiliacs
AT least 54 haemophilia patients in Shanghai have been diagnosed with AIDS after being given contaminated blood products.
- Sino-Singaporean trade
TO encourage more Chinese entrepreneurs to invest in Singapore, the Singapore Ministry of Manpower (SMM) and Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) recently co-launched the EntrePass plan for Chinese business people who would like to open companies in the Southeast Asian country.
- Quake victims battle cold
SNOW has hindered relief work in earth-quake-stricken Zhaosu County in China's far western Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
- Mission of hope
MAKING use of his holidays, Nanjing citizen Chen Si has saved more than 10 people who intended to commit suicide by jumping off the Nanjing Bridge across the Yangtze River, according to the Nanfang Daily.
- Artificial 'river town'
THE design of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Aquatic Park has now been settled, based on a masterplan by EDAW.
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