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THE first thing Shelly Xu does when returning home every day is soak the vegetables to be prepared for her supper in water.
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- Disturbed dinners
THE first thing Shelly Xu does when returning home every day is soak the vegetables to be prepared for her supper in water.
- Dangerous delicacies
FROM 6:00pm onwards, an aquatic product market near Tongchuan Lu comes to life. Piles of crabs, lobsters and different kinds of fish in a variety of containers are stacked rows.
- Eating safely
EOPLE no longer know what can be safely put on the dinner table," said Professor Zhang Zhiying, an expert with the Shanghai Food Research Institute.
- The best head west
WITH the arrival of another hot summer, college graduates were making preparations for their new life. Some would pursue their postgraduate study and some would find jobs. But Zhang Jianfeng, a graduate from the Medical College of Tongji University, was waiting to depart.
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- Terrorists target Chinese
THE coffins of 11 Chinese workers killed in Afghanistan last Thursday were flown to Nanchang in East China's Jiangxi Province late on Monday after a solemn ceremony at Kabul airport.
- Japan gears up for July election
TOKYO - Japanese political parties have launched de facto campaigns for next month's Upper House election which could decide the outlook for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's remaining two years in office.
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- Careful driving no guarantee for better traffic
I remember writing an article about how much I appreciated the new traffic regulation which puts the onus of proof on car drivers if they are involved in any accident. Some readers asked if I had any driving experience in Shanghai. I was not able to answer then but after obtaining a driver's licence and starting to drive my own car, I can say something now.
- What should China learn from D-Day?
The grand ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy was held in Caen, France last Sunday and it attracted universal attention, including a lot of people in this city. Dragon TV even showed a three-hour live broadcast of the ceremony.
- How I punctured bike roadside repair rackets!
Despite the relentless efforts of the Shanghai traffic boffins to drive all bicycles off the road and onto the footpath, my trusted steel steed is still the preferred way of moving around the neighbourhood.
- Models of inhuman dedication
Ren Changxia is undoubtedly an outstanding policewoman. Her sense of justice and self-discipline, her iron hand in cracking more than 1,000 major cases, her timely handling of letters and visits and her great concern for the weak has helped her to win the heart of the people in Dengfeng city, of Central China's Henan Province.
- Give children back their childhood
A recent survey by the municipal educational department shows that homework assigned to primary school pupils has become a heavy burden they can hardly bear, with 90 per cent of the children having to toil at their assignments far into the night before freeing themselves from their stacks of papers. In extreme cases, some poor kids have to work until midnight.
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- The life of a master lensman
AFTER being away from China for more than 20 years Mike Maloney was delighted to receive an invitation to attend the 7th International Photography Exhibition in Shanghai.
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- Looking clocks in the face
ACCOMPANYING the gradual growth of Western-style architecture in Shanghai in the 1850s, a diversity of architectural ornamentation was also introduced, including huge clocks on buildings - a kind of "exotic fashion" that traditional Chinese cities had never seen before.
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