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Shanghai, June 8 - A U.S. embassy visa call center reopened for business last Friday, six weeks after Shanghai police closed it down, in effect putting a freeze on the processing of new visa applications for weeks.
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- Chinese Visa Applicants Caught Between 'Borders and Doors'
Shanghai, June 8 - A U.S. embassy visa call center reopened for business last Friday, six weeks after Shanghai police closed it down, in effect putting a freeze on the processing of new visa applications for weeks.
- Degrees of Discontent: Fewer Chinese Students Seek to Study in U.S.
Shanghai (June 9) - It's the married couple - candidates for PhDs - who have flown home to Chendu with their eight-year old daughter for her grandparents funeral, and are unable to return to the lab. It's the Ivy-league postdoctoral fellow, marooned in Beijing while a $1.5 million U.S. government grant collects dust. It's the bioengineering masters student, home to see her sick mother and stranded for months, her husband still in America.
- Degree of discontent
IT'S the married couple candidates for PhDs who have flown home to Chengdu with their 8-year-old daughter for her grandparents funeral and who are unable to return to their lab. It's the Ivy-league post-doctoral fellow, marooned in Beijing while a US$1.5 million US Government grant collects dust. It's the bio-engineering masters student, home to see her sick mother and stranded for months, her husband still in the US.
- Invisible investigators
THERE is a group of people in the city who are used to wearing dark sunglass even indoors. Their job is to track people, take photographs and search for clues without being noticed. They are not employed by any government organization or public security department.
- Life in the shadows
ROGER Zhang triggered the small silver "gun" lighter. Smoke from his pipe clouded his face and a long scar on the hand holding the pipe was conspicuous. Zhang is a private detective, a profession that has not been legally recognized in China.
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- Iraq sovereignty transfer
The UN Security Council gave resounding approval on Tuesday to a resolution endorsing the transfer of sovereignty to Iraq's new government by the end of June.
- G8 summit likely to tighten curbs on nuclear arms
SAVANNAH - Leaders of the industrial world meeting for their annual summit are close to agreement on a plan to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, a senior US official said on condition of anonymity.
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- some parents don't deserve children
Babies born with abnormalities are abandoned at the hospital while their mothers vanish into thin air. Or an infant, perhaps born out of wedlock, is wrapped up in swaddling clothes barely warm enough to withstand the cold, with a note attached indicating the birthdate, and dumped in someone's doorway or in a dustbin. That baby would certainly end up starving or freezing to death if its whimpering were not loud enough to attract the attention of passers-by.
- Good leadership is not about individual heroism
Recently a friend of mine said she has found her job boring without too much work to do. But two months ago, she looked extremely excited about transferring to her current section of organizing large-scale events. However, now she complains: "My boss is doing everything." Aha, a typical Chinese leader, who does not know how to delegate.
- Death of a political giant
Even in the US, let alone in the West or the world more widely, Ronald Reagan was a deeply controversial figure, rising to be a President loved and hated with extraordinary intensity.
- Shadow children, lost lives
Ma Yi is just 11 years old, but she sits in a popular urban bar seven nights a week.
- Home renovation, honor stories
Having a new flat is a wonderful and thankful thing for most of us. However, renovating the flat can be a most painful thing for many Shanghai residents. In fact, there is a popular saying: "If you hate someone, ask them to renovate; if you love someone, renovate for them."
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- Excelling in every field
AS a student in college she was a poetry-contest winner; as a public relations manager for a hotel she won the "Excellent PR Manager" award from the Shanghai Public Relations Association; as director of marketing and sales, she was crowned "Excellent Director of Marketing & Sales" by the China Hotel Association.
- The first post-Enlightenment president?
Ronald Reagan?¡¥s presidency brought the end of Soviet-block communism and changed most people?¡¥s views of how a market economy should be run. These achievements owed as much to gut feeling as to reason
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- Mixed memories of `Zhiing'
ZHIQING, or intellectual young people, has a special meaning in China. It refers to the 17 million young urban residents who were sent to the countryside during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76) for re-education.
- It took a max to shift the antique market
SHANGHAI was once said to be the largest antique market in China. According to Archie Bell, an American traveller to Shanghai, lots of antique shops were operating in the narrow lanes of the city selling diamonds, ivory, porcelainand a variety of rare antiques.
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