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A NEW season
has arrived, so of course a new wave of fashion has also rolled
in. What does the Lane Crawford fashion show tell us about it?
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| Life Style |
- 'Wicked' tops Broadway's Tony nomination list
"WICKED", a musical that provides a back-story of "The Wizard of Oz" from the witches' point of view, received 10 Tony Award nominations last Monday to lead the chase for Broadway's highest theatrical honours.
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- Diabetes epidemic
GENEVA - The world faces a devastating diabetes epidemic, with the annual death toll already exceeding the three million killed by AIDS and set to rise, the World Health Organization warned on Wednesday.
- Giants develop new diabetes drug
NEW YORK - Two giant pharmacological companies - Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck & Co - have reached a global agreement to develop and commercialize a novel drug to treat Type 2 diabetes sufferers.
- New animal diseases hitting humans
GENEVA - Animal diseases that spread to humans are a growing global threat but for the moment, scientists cannot predict when or how they will occur.
- Mostly wholesome
MOST food in the city is free of impurities, local public health authorities have announced after a three-month city-wide sampling of food and looking for pollutants.
- Fight against Syndrome X
DOES Syndrome X sound like a strange disease? "X", of course, has always represented the unknown and scientists used "X" when the syndrome was first recognized in 1988.
- BRIEFS
THE annual "Shanghai Blood Donation Week" started on May 8. This year's activities emphasize the concept of donating and using blood in a healthy way. Donors are encouraged to donate 400ml each time rather than the 200ml considered standard in the past. Statistics from the city's Blood Management Office show that the daily blood consumption in clinical use is about 200,000ml of which one quarter consists of donated blood. Each year, about 290,000 local individuals donate their blood. Medical experts say that blood donation combined with a suppression of the blood trade are the pricipal ways to safeguard blood use.
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- Tropical adventures in Malaysia
THE first two Malay words I learnt, just after landing at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, were "duan-duan" and "poin-poin", meaning "mister" and missis". But later on I found there was no need to speak Malay or even English in the country. Chinese is widely used and I, with a Chinese face similar to the locals, was even given cold looks for speaking in English to them at first.
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- Imaginative creation
NO ONE ever saw a bride bursting forth from a fountain in real life. But in a child's painting, it can happen.
- Building fortunes
CHINA'S real estate development industry is barely a decade old and its movers and shakers are not a great deal older.
- Celebrities haunt 200-year-old Paris cemetery
THE man in charge of preserving France's most famous cemetery wishes that Jim Morrison would just go away.
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- A `Godot' worth waiting for
THE Gate Theatre from Dublin in Ireland will stage the "definitive" performance of "Waiting for Godot" by Irish author and playwright Samuel Beckett in Shanghai next week.
- Balancing acts
CHAO Chung-hsiang's paintings are on exhibition in the Shanghai Art Museum till May 18.
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