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WHEN the curtain of night falls on the city every day, some dim pink lights turn on in tiny hair salons dotting small streets in every neighbourhood. These lights actually mark the sites of brothels.
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- Anonymous workers in non-existent industry
WHEN the curtain of night falls on the city every day, some dim pink lights turn on in tiny hair salons dotting small streets in every neighbourhood. These lights actually mark the sites of brothels.
- Face to face with a sex worker
FOR 19-year-old Xia Yan (not her real name), the scope of the world is rather small. Her lifestyle is quite simple.
- Lost to the world
WOULD not take the chance," replied a blind masseur identified by his surname Guo, when asked the "Helen Keller question": "What would you do if you could have your sight back for three days?"
- Empire of the senses
I HAD been told by my work colleagues that the unassuming green door near my flat was that of a blind masseuse. As I have had a painful lower back for as long as I can remember I thought I would give it a try.
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- Scientist set to lead Iraq
WASHINGTON - The United Nations is expected to pick Hussain Shahristani, a Shi'ite Muslim nuclear scientist who spent 11 years in Abu Ghraib prison under Saddam Hussein, as premier of a new interim Iraqi government, US sources said on May 25.
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- Drowning in online pornography
Yesterday I was trying to download some free software on the Internet. The powerful search engine Google offered me an amazing number of related websites. I felt grateful for living in this information age. How wonderful to have such a great amount of information available!
- Literature is one thing, history another
I was a kungfu fan in my boyhood days. It was a time when martial arts movies and TV series, which had a tremendous appeal to the curious and fantastic minds of young people, became very popular in China. Consequently my boyhood friends and I were among the most fervent and devoted fans of martial arts TV series.
- Time to re-define soccer's goals
The date May 15, if anyone can remember, was a day of heavy rain and chilly winds. But to Chinese soccer, it was certainly more than that. Because from that day, the Chinese Soccer League entered into a new era: the so-called Super League. This, of course, is not the equivalent of the five famous premier leagues in Europe and although it might be an epoch-making day for Chinese soccer fans, their attitudes towards the celebration on that day proved to be as chilly as the weather.
- Elders miss out on the good life
I was invited by my friend during the May Day holidays to see a performance in the Lyceum Theatre. It is nearly two decades since I was last there. While the surroundings remain more or less the same as they used to be, the theatre itself is almost unrecognizable after its tremendous recent facelift.
- To shoot or not to shoot?
It's probably the toughest decision a cop has to face.
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- From the watery world of fun
TOM Mehrmann thought it was an interesting coinci-dence that he had entered the theme park business the same year Hong Kong's Ocean Park was opened, 27 years ago. He has been reecently appointed to the position of Ocean Park's chief executive.
- Unjamming communications
BACK in 1984, it was hard work and responsible stewardship that enabled Carol Molnau and her husband to be recognized as "Farm Family of the Year" by "The American Farmer" magazine.
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- Room for survival
THE Hakkas, usually mistakenly regarded as a minority race in China, are actually a unique ethnic sub-group of the majority Han nationality. Their ancestors lived around the Yellow River area and are thought to be one of the earliest Han settlers in China.
- Optium trade offends Russian eyes
DRIVEN by his strong desire for international travel, Ivan A. Goncharov, the outstanding Russian writer of critical realism, started out on his ocean voyage in 1852, working as the secretary of the commander of a Russian sailing cruiser - the Pallada.
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