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AS the head of Shanghai Sipopolytechnic, Pan Jiajun said that he had to accept a lot of pressure. Sipopolytechnic was established as a non-government technical college last year. In the first year in which it was formally approved by the Shanghai Municipal Government to recruit students, its allocated enrollment quota was 400 students.
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- Achieving equality
AS the head of Shanghai Sipopolytechnic, Pan Jiajun said that he had to accept a lot of pressure. Sipopolytechnic was established as a non-government technical college last year. In the first year in which it was formally approved by the Shanghai Municipal Government to recruit students, its allocated enrollment quota was 400 students.
- Educational investments
NON-government education began to recover in the mid-1980s. Since this time, non- government schools began developing rapidly, despite operating in what remained an ambiguous environment.
- Enterpreneur seeks more than profits in education venture
IT was not an exaggerated figure: 350 million yuan (US$42 million) was being invested in a non-government college. As the field was a new business in the country, this was a risky investment.
- Gold-plated
SHANGHAI'S car licence plates, everyone would have to agree, could well be the world's most expensive pieces of metal - worth even more than gold - even though they are made of plain aluminium.
- Safety drive in a jam
A POLICE officer surnamed Yuan stopped his motorcycle beside Huaihai Park when he noticed that the driver of a passing car was not wearing his seat belt. He ordered the car to pull over and asked Sheng Xinglong, the driver, to produce his driver's licence.
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- Karachi sectarian violence aims at Musharraf
ISLAMABAD - Most of the victims are from Pakistan's Shi'ite Muslim minority, but the real aim is to undermine President Pervez Musharraf, say analysts assessing Karachi's descent into a bloody spate of sectarian violence.
- Cutting US puppet strings
BAGHDAD - Many Iraqis voiced concern last Tuesday that their new interim government was merely a US puppet, while others urged the leaders to spend their short time in power bringing peace and stability to Iraq.
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- Growth is good
Is China growing too fast? A swelling chorus of policy makers and commentators, both domestic and international, seem to think so. Yet despite the apparent consensus on the subject, the situation is actually extremely uncertain, even contradictory.
- First moments in Shanghai
It is tough and relentless. It is innocent and sweet. It is Shanghai as it seemed to me in my first weeks.
- The joy of healthy sex
Since ancient times, sex has been a social taboo in China. At times, talking about sex in public could even be condemned as one of the deadly sins. However, things have changed dramatically.
- Bitter lesson to drive home
The popular comedy star Niu Zhenhua was killed in a traffic accident not long ago, after slamming his limousine into the back of a truck under the influence of alcohol. It seemed to be a straightforward case, sending a clear message: Niu had only himself to blame for his death from drunk driving. Those who own a car should draw a lesson from Niu’s violation of the road safety law, and refrain from drinking before sitting behind the wheel. Isn’t the lesson clear enough? But strangely enough, things are not quite that simple.
- Man-made beauty and man-made fuss
Yang Yuan, a professional model, was prevented from entering the 2004 Miss Global Competition in Beijing recently because she had undergone an “overhauling?plastic surgery, or a series of surgeries, to turn herself into a man-made beauty.
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- Renaissance Man
WU Zhenggong, or Christopher Wu, is a versatile artist with great paradoxes in his personality.
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- Learning the old way
WHEN 83-year-old tutor Zhu Zhizhong announcing the decision to close his small school in Central China's Hunan Province on December 30 last year, the last sishu (old-style private school) stepped down from the stage of history after 2,500 years.
- Western adventurer buries in ignominy
Not long after the Xinhai Revolution broke out in 1911, William Kahler, a Briton, travelled to Sonjiang county, about 40 kilometres from downtown Shanghai, where he found a deserted tomb.
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