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A nationwide campaign to crack down on pornographic websites, starting early this month, is in full swing. Over 14 concerned government departments have joined hands in the efforts to filter out and take down porn websites, led by police officials at different levels. A reporting centre has been established to collect information about pornographic websites and complaints from parents.
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- Web of moral corruption
ZHANG Yun, a middle school teacher, was not sure whether or not to buy a computer for her 14-year-old son.
- Search for lost virtue
FENG Enhong, vice president of the Chinese National Committee of Education Experts, was once touched by the words of a visa officer working in the British Consulate-General Shanghai.
- Study continues in summer vacation
AT 7:00am, under the scorching sun, a boy was anxiously waiting for a bus. On this busy morning, he looked little different from any of the other people rushing to work around him, except for his plump schoolbag.
- Dubious assessments
THE mother of nine-year-old Shanghai schoolgirl Dong Beili was worried as she watched her daughter sitting on a bench in the corridor of Xinhua Hospital, patiently waiting her turn to take an IQ test.
- A new page in publishing
PRIVATE bookstores were allocated a hall of their own at the 2004 Shanghai Book Fair which ended last Monday.
- Policy changes
THE reason for the flourishing state of private bookstores can be traced to changes in government policy relating to the publishing industry.
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- Blaze kills over 400
ASUNCION, Paraguay - The co-owner of a supermarket and five others were charged with manslaughter for a fire that killed 423 people, after a security guard testified he was ordered to lock the burning store's doors to prevent looting, trapping shoppers inside.
- Pakistan bags top al Qaeda suspect in terrorist sweep
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan this week arrested a suspected member of the al Qaeda terrorist network said to have "a multi-million-dollar bounty on his head".
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- A class apart--or lost in teaching
I have never forgotten what my friends said when I decided to become a high school teacher six years ago: "Introduce your future colleagues to us - to marry a teacher is my dream!"
- China's forgotten Scottish Olympic hero
China is eagerly anticipating the Olympic Games in 2008. The city where I live, Qingdao, is one of the two official sponsor cities and all the Olympic boating competitions will be held here.
- Public morality is a myth in Shanghai
Perhaps this is not a rare story in Shanghai. Several weeks ago, I took a bus to visit a friend. As the bus approached a bus station, a girl cried out: "My mobile phone has been stolen by somebody on the bus. Mr. Driver, please do not open the door!" On hearing this, the driver kept the door closed as he stopped the bus.
- Always be afraid of addictions
My giving home tuition English to some Chinese students is a bit like a two-edged sword: the youngsters benefit by learning (near) perfect English from a (near) perfect semi-native speaker and yours truly reaps by getting to know better how the locals really tick.
- Friendly Chinese--no 'culture gap'
An opinion article carried in the Shanghai Star on July 29 described the author's unhappy experience here in China during a business venture with a Chinese partner. The message he seemed to want to communicate to the readers was: what a casual and reckless, or even absurd, approach his Chinese partner displayed in dealing with a business contract, as it was signed only "after the umpteenth ganbei" of Maotai in a private room in a posh restaurant, when under alcohol's spell "there is indeed not a single problem that needs to be discussed and everybody is in a mood to sign the contract". As to the minutes of meeting, the official records of noteworthy events in the course of the contract's execution, he argued that they were either "avoided like the plague" or "remained unsigned by the Chinese party for obscure reasons".
- From footbinding to cosmetic surgery
Born with love of beauty in their blood, women have a great capacity to endure pain for the sake of being beautiful. In the name of beauty they can take pain as pleasure, treat suffering as a blessing and regard bitterness as a great enjoyment.
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- Joyful leave-taking
WHEN, 18 years ago, then 54-year-old Liu Guangrui took home several fallen leaves he had picked up during his morning exercises, he had not expected that he would later become an "artist" making pictures with leaves.
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- Chinese develop a foreign ear
MOST Chinese born before the 1980s have deep impressions of dubbed movie classics such as "Jane Eyre", "Waterloo Bridge" and others. They remember it as natural that the exotic heroes or heroines in the movie would speak Chinese: they are very accustomed to the voices that belong to dubbing artists. As far as those audiences were concerned, the heroes and heroines in the movies were foreigners who happened to speak Chinese.
- 'Decadent' story-teller of Old Shanghai
AS home to a galaxy of intellectuals, Shanghai has always attracted writers with its special charms.Shanghai before liberation in 1949 was not only involved in the mainstream of revolution and nationalism but also took the lead in the pursuit of conspicuous consumption, dandyism and the right of an individual to enjoy life to the full.
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