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WHAT does gold signify? This year, it is love, passion, individuality and achievement.
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| Life Style |
- Moore tells Bush: watch out for the pretzels
AFTER winning the top prize at Cannes for his anti-Bush documentary, US filmmaker Michael Moore said he hoped the President had not been eating a pretzel when he heard the news on Saturday.
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- Sodas raise cancer risk
WASHINGTON - Carbonated drinks may raise the risk of esophageal cancer, a usually fatal disease, American researchers reported on May 17.
- Heads in the clouds
THE ban on smoking in enclosed public spaces seems to be only weakly enforced in pubs and restaurants in Shanghai.
- Baby boy born from sperm frozen record 21 years ago
LONDON - A baby boy was born after being conceived with sperm frozen 21 years earlier in what scientists said on Tuesday was a new record.
- Success in hand
THE 9th National Hand Surgery Conference organized by Huashan Hospital was held in the city last weekend. Some 400 experts surgeons and medical experts discussed finger transplanting, hand nerve damage therapy and finger joints research. There were also lectures based on new digital technology being implemented on wrist pathology.
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- Club Med journey deep into Southeastern Asia
A PIONEER in the provision of all-inclusive package holidays for tourists, one of the world's largest hotel chains - Club Med - is now tapping China's tourism market.
- Town under Mao's watchful gaze
NANXUN, a town of rivers and lakes in East China's Zhejiang Province, has become the second place in China to hang a portrait of the late Chairman Mao on a miniature Tian'anmen-style Rostrum, similar to that hung in Beijing when the New China was founded on October 1, 1949.
- Culb Med journey deep into Southeast Asia
A PIONEER in the provision of all-inclusive package holidays for tourists, one of the world's largest hotel chains - Club Med - is now tapping China's tourism market.
- Weekend trip to the treasures of Nanjing
IT is not necessary to travel far from the city centre to find an intersting destination for a weekend trip. Actually, in the city's suburbs, there are a number of pleasant places to visit. Nanxiang Ancient Town is one such place.
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- Las Vegas of Europe
MANY English seaside towns seem as if they are stuck in a time warp, in an era when families and charabancs full of factory workers would converge on the shore for fun and frolics.
- 'Trailing spouses' clutch new lifeline
LIFELINE Shanghai, a new psychological support hotline for expatriates, marked two months in service on May 18, doubling its operating hours from 28 to 56 hours a week and preparing to train 20 new volunteer counselors in June.
- Hardly a burning issue
IN one of Asia's most polluted cities, most people fail to see the point of a ban on smoking but some are fuming.
- Singapore ambivalent about coming out on gays
NEAR-naked men simulating sex acts can now be found on postcards in strait-laced Singapore but a prominent gay activist says the government's recent liberalization of homosexuality is a mirage.
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| What's on |
- oooooo The Man Who Wasn't There oooooo
Director: Joel Coen
- South of the Clouds
A film from Zhu Wen, winner of many international literary competitions. A man regrets not moving to Yunnan Province when he was young. His dream is fulfilled after retirement and he meets with many unexpected incidents. His view of life and the world are greatly changed.
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Stage
- Musical climbed every mountain
"THE Sound of Music", one of the most popular musicals of the 20th century, will have its Asian Premiere in Shanghai's Grand Theatre. The four-week run has again made the term "musical" a buzzword among the local audience.
- Depths of Dance
A DANCE play to refresh people's memory of Anderson's fairytale of "The Little Mermaid" will be staged next week.
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