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DESPITE the scorching sunshine, hundreds of people still swarmed into the Shanghai Stadium late last week. They were not there to watch sports or enjoy concerts, but rather to compete for positions as "judicial social workers".
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- Beating the devil
DESPITE the scorching sunshine, hundreds of people still swarmed into the Shanghai Stadium late last week. They were not there to watch sports or enjoy concerts, but rather to compete for positions as "judicial social workers".
- Drug war intensifies
THIS June 26 will be the occasion of the 17th World Anti-drug Day, yet the fact is the number of drug-addicts has been increasing continuously. At present, there are over 50 million drug abusers in the world. Every year, over 10,000 people die from the effects of illegal drugs.
- Some commonly used drugs
Marijuana
- Snail scare
THE tropical disease "snail fever or schistosomiasis, thought to have been totally eradicated in 1985, has returned to threaten Shanghai again.
- Urgent need for relief
WANG Jiena, in her 20s, has been waiting 10 minutes outside a public toilet near Xintiandi. She is becoming nervous and anxious but there are still four people in front of her.
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- Fat cop, good cop?
This is the scenario: you're a young woman bank teller in Harbin when a huge man enters in a brazen daylight robbery attempt and, in a rage, shoots your security guards dead.
- No-cheating pledge in national exams is incredible
It has been reported that all 7.23 million candidates taking this year's national exams for college admission signed a "commitment letter" pledging to abide by the rules for the exam as set out by the national education authority.
- In praise of opening up
I would like to write about two anniversaries on both an objective (the facts) and subjective (self-experience) basis.
- Marriage is not for safe
I remember watching an opera known as "Tianxian Pei" (A Goddess' Marriage) when I was a boy, which told the story of Dong Yong, a poor young man who had to sell himself into indentured servitude to raise money for his father's burial.
- `Z" train-the alpha and omega in travel
The first and last letters of the Greek alphabet are sometimes used to indicate the deity or - more down to earth - for superlative service or the best in anything.
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- Not lost in translation
HE Interpreter", Academy Award-winner Nicole Kidman's current movie project, needed the permission of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to be shot in UN headquarters in New York.
- Bad news at the Jewish club
THE address 20 Fenyang Lu is where the Shanghai Conservatory of Music is located today. When walking into its campus, visitors will first notice a Western-style building with a huge semi-circular French window.
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