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LATEST research
shows that every day in China at least 300 people are killed in
traffic accidents, ranking the country top in the world for both
the death toll and the death rate. And the figure is accelerating
by 10 per cent every year. |
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- Week
in brief
SHANGHAI
- Press clips
In bad taste
- Weather this week
LOCALS can expect a warm and cloudy weekend. The top temperature will be around 22 degrees centigrade with a low around 12 degrees.
- Graduate lays down her body for study
TO obtain financial support for her studies in Germany, a young woman has offered to do housework and even to have sexual intercourse with any man who will take care of her travel and living expenses, the Shanghai Morning Post has reported.
- High school `puppy love'
A SURVEY of high school students has revealed that about 30 per cent of them already know about falling in love and 3.5 per cent of them have had sexual intercourse.
- Bush senior to visit
GEORGE H. Bush, former President of the US and father of the current president, will attend a Sino-US forum on environmental protection to be held in Shanghai on April 19.
- Action on debt pays off
LOCAL courts in a 10-day campaign cleared up more than 700,000 yuan (US$84,643) of debts owed by people who had refused to make court-ordered payments.
- On the lookout for linguists
SHANGHAI'S successful bid for the 2010 World Expo has focused attention on the need for more people to have communication skills in English.
- Practicality rules
SCIENCE and engineer-ing seem to enjoy a higher prestige than social studies in China, according to a survey carried out in East China's Zhejiang Province, Xinhua News Agency has reported.
- Fast-track to fame
THE world record set by US magician David Blaine, after fasting in a glass box suspended above the River Thames in London for 44 days, will most probably be broken this year in China.
- China
tops the world...in road deaths
LATEST research shows that every day in China at least 300 people are killed in traffic accidents, ranking the country top in the world for both the death toll and the death rate. And the figure is accelerating by 10 per cent every year.
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