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ZHENGZHOU - Chinese schools are challenging the decades-old moral lesson that citizens, even children, should put their lives at risk in emergencies.
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- Week in brief
SHANGHAI
- Shanghai Press
World class wait
- To see or not to see
BECAUSE of con-cerns over safety and commercial secrets, visits to industrial plants have hit a bottleneck after years of promotion, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
- Schools welcome all classes of children
MORE foreign children living in the city will now be able to go to local schools to study together with Shanghai children. The city recently sanctioned 70 primary schools and middle schools as the second batch of schools allowed to enroll foreign students, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
- Hungry for fame
LOCAL resident Su Lianfei had hoped to break the Guinness record for fasting, but he was turned down when he went to consult the headquarters of Shanghai Great World Guinness, where an official said this particular record attempt was not recommended, the Shanghai Evening Post reported.
- Baldness no longer part of a jail term
BALD heads have always been the approved hairstyle for male prisoners in China but sources in Shanghai's Tilanqiao Prison have revealed inmates will soon be free to choose from three styles: bald, close-cropped or short hair.
- Sexual harrassment rife in offices
A SURVEY shows that some 22 per cent of local women are familiar with sexual harassment at work, according to a report in the Shanghai Evening Post.
- More wisdom, less heroics
ZHENGZHOU - Chinese schools are challenging the decades-old moral lesson that citizens, even children, should put their lives at risk in emergencies.
- The bargaining business
THE country's first bargaining company has appeared recently in Shenyang of Northeast China's Liaoning Province, with its boss, a 31-year-old man named Zou Chengzhi, becoming the country's first professional bargainer.
- Killer of 4 eludes nationwide manhunt
AN intensive three-day nationwide manhunt directed by the Ministry of Public Security for the student wanted for killing four of his university classmates has failed to find him.
- Call for 5 more annual holidays
NATIONAL People's Congress (NPC) deputies from Beijing, Jiangsu and Hong Kong want the government to add some of the country's traditional festivals to the number of annual statutory holidays.
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