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THE attempt by 50-year-old herbalist Chen Jianmin to beat the record for fasting set last year by US magician David Blaine is off to a good start.
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- Weatehr
IT should be cloudy on Friday with some rain expected to arrive on Saturday and linger over the weekend. Fine weather should return from next Monday. Temperatures are expected to remain stable between 8 and 13 degrees centigrade. (Star News)
- Urban box dwellers
A HUGE advertising lighting box under the Yan'an Donglu elevated highway was set on fire on March 22 by a cigarette butt left by a homeless person who was sleeping inside it.
- Ascott tops serviced apartments
THE Ascott Group has taken over top place in the Top 100 Serviced Apartments ranking.
- Unqualified Yoga coach concerns
ALTHOUGH ever more local people are showing an interest in learning Yoga, the quality of its teaching in the city has been questioned by experts, according to a report in the Wenhui Daily.
- Orange sellers, make-up articles
AFTER being soaked in strong soap-suds, brushed and sprayed with liquid paraffin, a less than fresh orange suddenly becomes an attractive fruit. That is the "make-up" widely applied in the fruit market on Caoyang Lu, Xinhuanet has reported.
- Flight crew applicants face tough tests
MORE than 6,000 students from local junior middle schools who want to become members of flight crews applied this year for enrollment in the Polytechnic School of Civil Aviation in Shanghai.
- Herbalist to beat fasting record
THE attempt by 50-year-old herbalist Chen Jianmin to beat the record for fasting set last year by US magician David Blaine is off to a good start.
- 12-year jail for top cop rapist
THE People's Procuratorate in Zhouning County in East China's Fujian Province has successfully appealed against the leniency of a three-year jail sentence imposed on a senior police official convicted of raping a 14-year-old girl. When the case returned to court on March 23 the rapist was sentenced to nine years more in jail.
- Cultural freedom
STARTING on May 1, admission to all the country's cultural establishments, such as museums, memorials and art galleries, will be free to minors.
- Schools, parents at odds over cell phones on campus
EDUCATION authorities in Baoding city, of North China's Hebei Province, shocked many parents recently by banning the use of cell phones on campus.
- Expo highlights historical cities
THE 2004 World Historical and Cultural Cities Expo will open in Nanjing, capital of neighbouring Jiangsu Province, on April 4 and run until May 6, a spokesman for the Nanjing government announced this week.
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