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WHEN store manager Si heard that the rent of his store in Xintiandi was to rise again, he confessed things seemed a bit desperate for his business.
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- Too dear to quit
WHEN store manager Si heard that the rent of his store in Xintiandi was to rise again, he confessed things seemed a bit desperate for his business.
- Sleaze-free zone
BEING a customer in Xintiandi can make Steven Liu, an immigrant from Beijing, feel that he has joined the mainstream culture of Shanghai.
- Xintiandi still 'retail heaven'
ONE shop owner who cannot understand what all the fuss is about is foundation Xintiandi tenant Anthony Edwards. He is the proprietor of the high-fashion store, "X", the first retail outlet in Xintiandi.
- Something for everybody
THOUGH Xintiandi hasn't yet reached the break-even point, it has been recognized as a successful business venture throughout the country.
- Where wealth and poverty lived together
RIO Xie, a local resident, still remembers the favourite food of her childhood - a 1.5 yuan bowl of noodles sold in a small shabby store in a place called Taipingqiao (Peaceful Bridge).
- Learning from tragedy
FEI Xiaoci, a senior student at East China Normal University, lives in a small dorm with seven of her classmates. The dorm is only supplied with electricity for a few hours in the evening, lasting until 11:00pm.
- Burnt into the memory
IT's estimated that 177 students have lost their lives in campus fire accidents in Russia during the past five years. In China, fire accidents are also a menace to college safety.
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- A relationship at risk
OTTAWA - Two decades ago the leaders of Canada and the United States, Brian Mulroney and Ronald Reagan, had such a good personal relationship that they once sang together on stage.
- NATO flag won't fly in Iraq before summer
BRUSSELS - Don't expect to see the NATO flag flying in post-war Iraq for some time yet.
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- The meaning of being grown-up
When do we think we are adults? What facts give us the impression that we have already left our childhood behind? These questions are difficult to answer. They count as questions of life everybody has opinions about, but nobody can give a definition. Does it depend on a degree, on income or the fact of moving out of your family home?
- Street harrassment - please go away
"Go away, go away!" I kept saying this as I walked down Nanjing Donglu, the most bustling shopping centre in Shanghai.
- Reverse engineering on a sale
It would appear that shop assistants are always around and bothering one when one wants to be left alone but are nowhere to be seen when one actually does need them. Well, that used to be the case.
- A promise of hope
The China's Ministry of Health announced recently that the government has promised free medical treatment to Chinese AIDS victims who are in financial difficulty. Their children will be given free education.
- LETTERS
Fresh atrocities
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- New concept teaching
HE grew up during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76) and he did not receive his education in any regular school but spent his days reading "lots of books".
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- Cruelty and crowds
IT is a familiar scene in many places in China, as elsewhere in the world, that a group of curious people gather around to watch whenever an accident or a fight takes place.
- Life on the city's underside
ALTHOUGH Shanghai has long been one of the greatest metropolises in the Far East, attracting foreign people with its prosperity and vitality, its poverty also drew their attention.
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