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THOUSANDS of social workers in Shanghai will become the first in China to be granted official status and certification and allowed to engage in non-profit-making operations.
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- Building a profession
THOUSANDS of social workers in Shanghai will become the first in China to be granted official status and certification and allowed to engage in non-profit-making operations.
- Answering social needs
LEQUN, the first Chinese non-profit organization special-izing in social work, is now on the edge of being shut down because all its social workers have left due to a financial crisis.
- Housemaid revolution
UNLIKE other college graduates who have to struggle to find a job in Shanghai - China's favourite place to work, Guo Sujie and 12 of his classmates from the Hebei Institute of Vocation and Technology experienced an "unprecedented reception" on their arrival in the city to seek work.
- Cleaners' dirty secrets
HOW convenient Shanghai residents never have to walk far to have their clothes dry-cleaned with so many dry-cleaners in every district.
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- ]White House hits back
WASHINGTON - After months on the defensive over Iraq, job losses and his military record, President George W. Bush plunged into the 2004 campaign by accusing Democratic White House hopeful John Kerry of waffling on issues from Iraq to NAFTA.
- Immigrants to Britain - a two-way economic benefit
LONDON - The British Government may yet be forced by politics to limit migration from the countries of eastern Europe now poised to join the European Union although both Britain and British industry have long welcomed immigrants.
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- Escaping the timeless pattern
Another Hollywood movie, "Master and Commander", has recently been showing in Shanghai cinemas, starring Russell Crowe, who must be eyeing his chances in the upcoming Oscar awards.
- Tai Chi - what's all the fuss about?
While walking through parks on a Shanghai morning, you are likely to see the beautiful and graceful art of Tai Chi in action. Being as cynical as I am, I wondered how dancing around doing some exotic ballet type moves constitute as exercise. How can something so slow actually do any good at all?
- The movie "Mobile Phone" has triggered a "trust crisis" between couples across China.
The movie tells of the story of a TV talk show anchor, Yan Shouyi, who uses various tricks with his mobile phone to betray his wife. When he is on a date with another woman, he answers a call from his wife as if the connection is too bad to hear her voice or makes excuses like being in a meeting. To better cover his affair, he even plucks out the batteries in his mobile phone to make him "not able to be reached". In the end, the records and messages in his mobile phone betray him and his affairs are exposed.
- Seeing beyond the obvious
If the mysterious claims that Natasha, a little Russian girl, has the extraordinary ability to see through the human body, prove to be well-founded, I'm afraid we shall have to rethink our approach to what we label "pseudo-science".
- Re-making socialism in China
Having been raised in political cultures which primarily identify "socialism" with hostility to the market economy, Westerners are often confused by China's ideological evolution in the era of "reform and opening up". In particular, they tend to find the notions of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" and the "market-oriented socialist economy" difficult to comprehend.
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- Journey to the West
MENG Hongwei is an interesting combination he is an artist both in the kitchen and with a paint brush.
- Shiao shares calming magic
BUILDING 555 is an office tower along busy Nanjing Xilu in downtown Shanghai. On the second floor is a hidden oasis which provides a peaceful yet exotic environment.
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- Beloved waterway
MOST world-famous cities have an equally renowned river flowing through them. The Thames in London, the Seine in Paris, the Tiber in Rome and the Hudson in New York.
- Pudong - rise of the East Bank
THE Huangpu River, running south to north, divides Shanghai in two: Puxi (to the west) and Pudong (to the east). Over the city's history, Puxi was always the centre of Shanghai, especially after Shanghai became a treaty port, helping Puxi develop into the busiest section of this modern city.
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