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TALKING about the flight delay on July 4, Ge Gangqiang, a local media worker, was unable to calm down.
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- Plane dealing
TALKING about the flight delay on July 4, Ge Gangqiang, a local media worker, was unable to calm down.
- CAAC guideline on compensation
THE Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on June 26 issued a directive in an attempt to clear up the confusion surrounding the compensation to be paid to passengers who find themselves booked on delayed flights.
- Thirsty for water
FOR Zhang Rongguang, a laid-off worker, and his family, one of the most important things they now have to think about every day is how to save water, now that their water rates have suddenly gone up.
- Against a rainy day
A 30-MINUTE thunderstorm on July 12 in Shanghai killed seven people and injured more than 40 as well as damaging hundreds of houses, vehicles and trees and causing electricity blackouts.
- Flooding paralyzes Beijing traffic
BEIJING was battered by its strongest storm in a decade last Saturday afternoon. The heavy rainfall flooded roads and led to the collapse of six houses. Two local people were injured and serious traffic jams were caused downtown.
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- Working against the clock
LONDON - Blame fierce globalization, greedy bosses, cowed workers or just the facts of life in free market economies - but many Europeans are starting to accept they may have to work longer hours to safeguard their jobs.
- Faulty intelligence won't stop US military from attacking
WASHINGTON - Now that a Senate committee has concluded the CIA falsely claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, expect more caution on Capitol Hill the next time a president seeks approval for pre-emptive military action.
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- Debased moral climate worse than crime
The first half of 2004 has seen a number of serious homicide cases in China. First there was Ma Jiajue, a Yunnan University student who had carefully plotted a murderous scheme to brutally hammer four of his classmates to death. Ma Jiajue was finally captured in Sanya in South China's Hainan Province.
- Hair in China today--black is beautiful
My Israeli friend Inbal told me the other day that she likes Chinese people's hair black and straight. "Western people actually envy you Chinese guys with such beautiful hair," my friend said.
- Back to the future
For well over a century, writers of science fiction have looked to the stars when imagining the future. Of the two technological breakthroughs inherited from World War II - rocketry and computers - it was the former that most feverishly excited the science fiction imagination, even though the latter delivered vastly more real social and economic change.
- Adrift on a sea of debt in a plastic boat
The happy pre-plastic days, when everyone made quick cash payments at the supermarket, restaurant and petrol station appear to have gone, never to return.
- Lesson learnt from tale of lost wallet
It happened one day earlier this month at Pudong International Airport that a woman surnamed Qin, who had checked in at the counter of China Eastern Airlines just five minutes before for a flight bound for Madrid, suddenly found, to her great alarm, that her wallet containing her passport and residence permit was missing.
- Looking behind the figures
Recently, a number of universities have announced figures revealing the percentage of their graduates who have found jobs. It is quite amazing that almost all of these universities have a rate higher than 90 per cent, which means most of their graduates haven't suffered from what we call "the hardship of getting a job".
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- Artistic transfiguration
N obsession with Shanghai has been deeply rooted in my heart ever since I became lost in its busy commercial street of Nanjing Lu as a teenager in the 1960s," said painter Xu Jiang, who was born in East China's Fujian Province, situated over 1,000 kilometres from Shanghai.
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- Shanghai in love
IT'S summer, and love is everywhere - literally. From parks to subways to street corners, smooching couples can be spotted anywhere, anytime. Most duos are extremely affectionate in public - some are even shameless in their public declarations of love.
- Where the `Cotton King' live
AT the intersection of Shanxi Beilu and Nanjing Xilu, a stunning white mansion is hidden from the casual glances of passersby behind an encircling wall adorned with flowers.
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