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OVER 800 Karaoke venues will receive legal notices this month from some 50 local and international music companies.
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- Week in brief
SHANGHAI
- Promise keepers
TO sign an agreement promising to complete one's work has become a popular practise picked up in government departments.
- IT should remain dry in the city into next week with temperatures rising gradually. Friday is expected to be overcast with a high of around 12 degrees centigrade.
Residents can expect to enjoy sunshine for the following several days and the top temperature next Monday and Tuesday may exceed 15 degrees centigrade. (Star News)
- Musical impasse
OVER 800 Karaoke venues will receive legal notices this month from some 50 local and international music companies.
- Company eying talents
THE Shanghai World Expo (Group) Co Ltd is working out a three-tier human resources plan to recruit more professionals for the grand event in 2010.
- A chance for young entrepreneurs
THE second Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition has opened in Shanghai and any college student who had a good business idea has been invited to enter.
- Fruitless lives
THE pandas in Shanghai may never have offspring, the Jiefang Daily has reported. Sources at Shanghai Zoo and Shanghai Wildlife Park said there are now only three pandas in the two animal parks in the city.
- Vending machines looted
THIEVES broke into an automatic vending machine on Guanshengyuan Lu in the early hours of March 1 and ransacked it, the Oriental Morning Post has reported.
- Dorm atrocity
THE Chinese Ministry of Public Security has issued an urgent appeal for help from the public in catching a student wanted for the murder of four of his classmates in a university dormitory in Southwest China's Yunnan Province.
- Two new churches to be built
Beijing - Two more churches will be built for Christians in the Chinese capital this year, Yu Xinli, a priest of the Beijing Christian Council, said Tuesday.
- Calming inflation fears
CHINESE residents have recently been worried that negative real interest rates on their bank savings could be an indicator of gathering inflation, according to a report in the Beijing Youth Daily.
- Hearing call needs to be heard
EXPERTS specializing in hearing impairment warn that the law is in bad need of reform to regulate the standard of hearing devices in the market.
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