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SIX million yuan (US$72,000) in compensation has been handed to farmers in Kangqiao Town in Nanhui District for poultry slaughtered in the early days of the outbreak of suspected bird flu.
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- Poultry sums
SIX million yuan (US$72,000) in compensation has been handed to farmers in Kangqiao Town in Nanhui District for poultry slaughtered in the early days of the outbreak of suspected bird flu.
- Government compensation plans for local avian flu loss
THE city government has taken steps to pay compensation to farmers and enterprises around the city who have suffered losses during the suspected bird flu outbreak, releasing a bulletin on February 5, six days after suspected bird flu was found in Nanhui District.
- Casualty figures
THE "chicken killer" (who was unwilling to give his real name) said he had just returned from his hometown in neighbouring Jiangsu Province where he had been killing chickens for three days.
- Towards transparency
WHETHER a government document is a work report or a landscape blueprint, as long as its release would not infringe an individual's right to privacy, breach commercial confidentiality or reveal State secrets, it will soon be open to the public.
- Corrosive hatred
HEAVILY wrapped in winter clothes with only her two eyes exposed, a dis-tressed Shen Peifang edged away from a local court last Friday, assisted by her parents, before a hearing began on her disfigurement case.
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- Tragic migrants
BEIJING ?Britain and China are exchanging police officials to tackle the problem of human trafficking highlighted by the deaths of 19 mainly Chinese migrants in England, a British diplomat said on Tuesday.
- US says al Qaeda plans civilwar in Iraq
BAGHDAD - The United States said an al Qaeda operative was plotting to provoke a civil war in Iraq as UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed concern over divisions among Iraqis on a plan to assume power.
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- Dialectics of inhumanity
The old masters of dialectical thinking - China's Laozi pre-eminent among them - revelled in the intellectual gymnastics which demonstrated things turning into their opposites: compassion into cruelty, decency into depravity, legality into criminality and vice. Such thinking can sometimes locate a thread of intelligibility in cases of otherwise senseless tragedy, when the absurd sadness of events threatens to overwhelm and paralyse the mind.
- Medical misdeeds are tricky operations
Before the Spring Festival, an Australian friend called me to say that his medical dispute with a local hospital which had lasted 29 months had finally been resolved.
- Migrant workers are citizens too
When seeing migrant workers or people from impoverished towns dressed in shabby, and sometimes, dirty and smelly clothes on buses or the Metro, many Shanghainese frown and keep as far away from them as possible.
- Shengyang's rainbow monkeys a mockery
It's the Year of the Monkey.
- Winter in Shanghai: wrong place, wrong time
Rumour has it that in the early years after Liberation in 1949, learned weathermen advised Chairman Mao Zedong that everything north of the Yangtze River was freezing cold while south of the river it was, if not warm, quite bearable in winter.
- Why I hate St Valentine
I hate Valentines' Day. If there was a Valentines' Scrooge, then I'd be it. Bah humbug to the whole lot of it.
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- Passion for preservation
HIS gentle smile and cultivated manners make it hard to associate him with the young man of 10 years ago, the one who stood against a huge bulldozer with one hand while calling for support through a megaphone in the other to save an old house from being demolished.
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- Stereotypes demolished
AMERICANS don't know much about China. What they do know comes from three main sources: movies, the news, and history classes. This can be a sensitive subject, and I do not wish to offend anyone - my goal is only to give you an overview of American stereotypes of China.
- Concessional signs of the times
OCCUPYING the central area of Shanghai, the foreign settlements had a history of almost 100 years in the city.
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