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THE sticking point in the battle to end the practice of employers defaulting on the payment of migrant workers?wages is the existence of the “private employment relationship according to Dong Baohua, a labour expert from the East China University of Politics and Law.
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- Unrewarded labours
THE sticking point in the battle to end the practice of employers defaulting on the payment of migrant workers' wages is the existence of the "private employment relationship according to Dong Baohua, a labour expert from the East China University of Politics and Law.
- Earning it the hard way
SHANGHAI Railway Station is the best place to go to witness the early rush of migrant workers leaving the city as the Spring Festival approaches. Smiles can be seen on the weather-beaten faces of those who have been able to pocket this year's pay.
- Cooling the market
THE soaring prices of the real estate market has become one of the hottest topics at the city's ongoing Congress meeting.
- Annual banquet
SHANGHAI restaurants have been ordered to seek permission from sanitation inspectors if they plan to serve nianye fan (New Year's Eve dinner) to large family gatherings or to groups occupying more than five tables during the Spring Festival.
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- 'Disappointing everyone
SEOUL - South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun apologized on Wednesday for a political funding scandal that has embroiled close aides and gave a surprisingly cautious assessment of where Asia's fourth-largest economy is headed this year.
- Viet Nam reports two more suspected bird flu cases
HANOI - A 15-month-old girl and a man are the latest suspected cases of bird flu infection in Viet Nam, a senior health official said on Wednesday as attention turned to pigs as possible carriers for the illness.
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- The inconceivable sperm problem
What does a nation with 1.3 billion people - going on 1.4 billion - need with a sperm bank?
- End the tyranny of skin-deep beauty
Thanks to modernization and high technology, women now have a variety of choices to enhance their appearance. Apart from relying on fashionable clothes, skin-care products, make-up as well as various new-age diets, some are even willing to go to the most drastic extreme - cosmetic surgery.
- First impressions
Suddenly my plane touched down at Hongqiao Airport. I had flown via Denmark and Beijing from my home country of Norway, in order to work for two months as a volunteer. The rain was pouring down this day and a freezing wind made it all but welcoming. I arrived at the apartment I was going to stay in, and realized inside the apartment was nearly as cold as outside.
- Roads, roads everywhere, but nowhere to ride
The Pudong district government does not like to do things half-heartedly and good on them.
- Economic freedom and the wealth of nations
In his opinion piece ("A not-so-super Superpower") last week, admirably dedicated to criticizing the ignorant and self-defeating protectionism climate being stirred by the US electoral cycle, Jacob von Bisterfeld also made some far less plausible claims about the basis of US affluence.
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- President rosy about Chinese skin-care market
NOW that the headquarters of Estee Lauder in the Asia Pacific region is moving to Shanghai, Michel Grunberg, the company's senior vice-president, said his biggest worry is that there are only seven days in a week and only 24 hours in a day.
- Ancient guide to harmony
CAO Qi is an artist specializing in Taoist themes. When he gives classes about Chinese calligraphy and painting he will usually talk about the theory of fengshui (Chinese geomancy), to the delight of his students.
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- When women held the whip
IN Chinese history, there is special term "nuhuo" or "woman disaster". It refers to the situation when an imperial concubine rather than the emperor himself ran State affairs. Ancient scholars thought whenever a woman occupied such a position it would lead inevitably to disaster, as if a hen instead of a cock were to crow in the morning.
- A tradition of good works
CHARITABLE behaviour has long been regarded as a human virtue, even during the undeveloped Middle Ages in China when it existed at a comparatively low level.
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