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SEEING four-year-old Du An'na enjoying somersaults on the mat with her peers in the gym, her mother sat nearby, smiling quietly.
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- Struggle for survival
SEEING four-year-old Du An'na enjoying somersaults on the mat with her peers in the gym, her mother sat nearby, smiling quietly.
- Gilded glory
THE recruitment of Chinese basketball star Yao Ming into the NBA competition in the US and all the attendant publicity - particularly his astonishing salary - has convinced many Chinese that a career in sport is an enviable and highly lucrative occupation.
- Sporting chances
AFTER retiring from their sporting careers - in which they may have been engaged since childhood - the 20-something-year-old athletes have to face the problem of stepping into a totally different profession that they know nothing about.
- Mapping out the metro flow
UNLESS absolutely necessary, Xie Yiqing would never walk along the interchange passage between metro lines 1 and 2 at People's Square station.
- Information
THE interchange passageway between Metro Line 1 and Metro Line 2 at People's Square station has started one-way passenger flow at peak times from February 19, with the aim of relieving the present over-crowding, according to sources with Shanghai Metro Operation Co Ltd.
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- 'Trilateralism' fears grow
BRUSSELS - The summit of Europe's big three powers is being viewed with a mixture of anticipation and foreboding as heralding a new form of leadership for the expanding European Union. The reality may be less far-reaching.
- San Francisco's gay marriages to continue, for now
SAN FRANCISCO - A California judge on Tuesday gave the city of San Francisco a green light to keep on issuing marriage licenses to gays and lesbians until late March at least.
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- The lie-detector - it's a lie
While reading the papers last week I came across a story in China Daily concerning the polygraph (or lie-detector as it is also called). The story featured Guangzhou Psychiatric Hospital where they're applying for a permit to use the polygraph. One doctor is quoted as saying that it "can reach 99 per cent accuracy." It might be news to you, but that can at best be called bending the truth.
- What a hoot!
What strikes me most about walking down the streets of Shanghai is the traffic. Cars seem to come from all directions, switching lanes like dodgem cars and it's not just cars but bicycles and scooters too.
- Multinationals with double standards
An ordinary Sunday morning, I turned on the TV to wake myself up. Five minutes later, I was fully awake. Indeed, I was shocked. Someone was reported to have died because of insufficient safety instructions about a UK-made drug for hepatitis B.
- A lot of fuss over one yuan
A 10-year-old primary schoolboy in Yangzhou, East China, came across one yuan lying on the ground when he was out shopping with his mother. He picked it up and gave it to a policeman at the street corner, who then, in front of the boy, threw the one yuan onto the ground. (Xinhua News Agency, www.people.com.cn, visited on February 10).
- Small in size but big on the job
Deng Xiaoping might roll over in his grave if he knew the state of affairs in Shenzhen, or throughout South China's Guangdong Province for that matter.
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- Feminist activist
FEMINISM is not aimed against men, it is all about equality, said Anne Summers, an active feminist, journalist, writer on women's issues and the chairperson of Greenpeace International.
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- Recipes for cruelty
CHINESE are renowned around the world for their love of food, sometimes strange food. The SARS outbreak last year led to great criticism of Chinese, especially Cantonese, over some of their unique dining "customs". The condemnation centred on the eating of various animals, especially wild ones, that other peoples could never imagine themselves eating - for example, mice and cats.
- First small steps for the big season
THE first public film show in Paris, in December 1895, led to the fast spread of film throughout the world. Just one year later it was introduced to Shanghai.
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