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BIG brand shows are always a highlight of the Shanghai International Fashion Festival and this year was no exception. Four international brands Jorya, Phaber, Liu.Jo and BCBG - displayed their latest collections for spring and summer in a spectacular showing of the latest trends in Xintiandi.
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| Fashion |
- Spirit and glamour of Spring
BIG brand shows are always a highlight of the Shanghai International Fashion Festival and this year was no exception. Four international brands Jorya, Phaber, Liu.Jo and BCBG - displayed their latest collections for spring and summer in a spectacular showing of the latest trends in Xintiandi.
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| Health |
- Sino-Australian IVF centre
CHINA's technology for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is expected to improve after a joint venture involving Chinese and Australian scientists was set up in Shanghai last week.
- Heart expert shares his secrets
FEDERICO Benetti, a famous heart disease expert from Argentina, shared with his Chinese counterparts last week the results of his research into assisted minimally-invasive coronary operations without a cardio-pulmonary bypass.
- Keep your shoes on
WEARING sandals before the weather warms up after winter and early spring could cause illness among menstruating women. The Shanghai Morning Post reported that the number of women patients suffering from the problem (emmeniopathy) in the Anshan People's Hospital, in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, had surged recently.
- Good health starts in the feet
THERAPEUTIC massage has a long history in China, and one of the most interesting forms of treatment is foot massage.
- Breath-taking threat worsens
ON World Asthma Day next month, the Global Initiative for Asthma will release a worldwide survey showing that an estimated 300 million people are now suffering from the disease.
- Heath brief
Water safety
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| Travel |
- Norway: unspoilt and uncrowded under the northern lights
IF you come to Norway from Shanghai, you might think the whole country has recently been evacuated and no one told you. But don't worry - Norway's 4.5 million citizens only populate about 3 per cent of an area the size of Malaysia, leaving enough space for everyone.
- Bridges into the past
WHEN I finally arrived at Nanxi River, everything was in darkness except for the light cast by street lamps and the stars above. My first impression was one of peace and quiet.
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| Feature |
- The local face of Operation Smile
OPERATION Smile first arrived in China in 1991 and has conducted 34 missions to 14 cities in the country. More than 7,000 Chinese children and young adults have received life-altering surgery.
- Service with a smile
WHAT an easy expression the smile is! Yet for an unfortunate few it is impossible to express themselves in this almost universal way because of facial deformities.
- Honour comes too late
A GERMAN bureaucrat the CIA once called "the most important spy of World War II", but who was scorned at home as a traitor, may soon receive belated honours from the government - three decades after he died as an outcast.
- Canada's gays are a golden wedding market
SUZANNE Welstead is thinking about yellow and green, perfect colours for a spring wedding.
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| What's on |
- Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Rodney Dangerfield, Robert Downey, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Juliette Lewis, Edie McClurg
- Listings
Exhibition
- Moving art to move the viewer
KINETIC sculpture is a relatively new concept in Shanghai. People stop out of curiosity in front of the Urban Planning Exhibition Centre where a rectangular frame stands supporting a metallic structure in the centre that moves up and down.
- Vision of change
SHANGHAI Gallery of Art (SGA) presents a new exhibition "Tradition, Poetry, and Sensibility", featuring three outstanding modern painters, Liu Wei, Zheng Zaidong, Zhou Chunya.
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