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THE spectacular impact of urban construction in the past decade has ranked Shanghai among the top cities in the world for the number of its skyscrapers but it still looks small in other ways.
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- Lost in a concrete jungle
THE spectacular impact of urban construction in the past decade has ranked Shanghai among the top cities in the world for the number of its skyscrapers but it still looks small in other ways.
- Further education
EACH morning, 50-year-old Wang Yaqiong gets up early and takes the No. 79 bus to Luxun Park in Hongkou District making sure she arrives before 6:00am when admission is free.
- The need to read
WITH a population more than five times that of San Francisco, Shanghai spends 40 per cent less than its American counterpart on its public libraries.
- Dusty museums
IN the pleasant air of spring, warm sunshine could be felt in every nook and cranny of Shanghai Normal University. Except, that is, for one place, where over 150 exhibits featuring ancient bronze ware, china, pottery and traditional Chinese paintings were quietly displayed.
- Long way to fair play
CHINESE shoppers who were worried about their rights as consumers were most concerned that their complaints would not be dealt with properly, according to a survey conducted by the China Social Investigation Institute.
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- Pain in Spain
MADRID - If al Qaeda did mastermind Spain's bloodiest bomb attacks, its militants could claim to have caused a spectacular election upset in Madrid, but some analysts said the defeated government has only itself to blame.
- Critics blast US over handling of Haiti crisis
WASHINGTON - A decade after the US restored Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power as Haiti's president, the former priest is back in exile and America's commitment to democracy there is under fire.
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- Ethics and the little red envelope
I was recently talking to a professor who was organizing an event for the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). Knowing I used to work in the media sector, Dr Linda G. Sprague asked me an embarrassing question: "Why must we give journalists little envelopes containing 300 yuan?"
- Two wheels are better than four
As I look out of my window now, I see a layer of thick smog clinging to the buildings around the city. My journey to and from work has become longer and longer due to traffic jams, not only at the usual peak times as my work hours are quite flexible, but it seems at other random times of the day. The overpasses are choked and the residents are choking.
- Paradise on earth is close at hand
I had heard on numerous occasions that Suzhou is one of China's top destinations for escaping the pace of city life. Situated in the south of neighbouring Jiangsu Province on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River it proved to be as gorgeous as everyone had made it out to be.
- Growing pains and growing pills
The people who accept having their shin bones cut apart in order to make themselves grow taller (being persuaded by some "doctors" that the separated shin bones will heal by adding length between the cut points, thus making one grow taller) and afterwards suffer from unspeakable pain or handicap may feel uncomfortable if they see what today's TV commercials are showing us: that we can actually grow out of the pain of "I am too short" by much easier means than those they had gone through.
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- singing for the world
WHEN Zhang Jianyi sang in a workers' group advocating the new Constitution in the 1970s, he didn't realize he had the special talent required for a career in music.
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- Emerging from the shadows
SHADOW puppets have existed in China for thousands of years.
- Racing through history
IT is widely known that the old horse racing course in pre-war Shanghai, near today's People's Square, was a place of thrills, parades and entertainment.
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