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EARLY every morning,the ear-splitting sound of caterwauling shatters the quiet of Guangqi Lu in Huangpu District.
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- Week in brief
SHANGHAI
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Shanghai
- Brutal trade in cats
EARLY every morning,the ear-splitting sound of caterwauling shatters the quiet of Guangqi Lu in Huangpu District.
- Rainmaking frustration
THE first attempts to create artificial rain over the city were finally launched last Tuesday after a long wait. However, the rain-makers did not have much success - only a 0.02mm sprinkle in Fengxian District.
- Counselling to despair
THE city's first group of volunteers dedicated to providing psychological help to failed suicides have been receiving professional training since the beginning of the month, the Shanghai Youth Daily reported.
- New agreement
SHANGHAI Foreign Service Co Ltd (Fesco) has signed a co-operative agreement with Switzerland-based Adecco, the world's largest recruitment company, to expand temporary staffing services in China.
- Hairy experiences
YU Zhenhuan, a man famous in China for his hair, had to have an operation on his ears last Friday in Shanghai No.9 People's Hospital to remove excessive hair from his ears which was impairing his hearing.
- Huaihe River clean-up fails
CHINA'S efforts over the past 10 years to clean up the Huaihe River, the country's third largest, appear to have failed. The river, which supplies water for one seventh of the country's 1.3 billion population, remains heavily polluted, according to a report in the Shanghai-based Xinmin Weekly.
- Urban 'dog-fight'
SOME of the rich businessmen in the city of Jinhua, East China's Zhejiang Province, have found a new way to flaunt their wealth - through the dogs they own.
- More officials take the road to corruption
THE former vice-director of the Beijing Transportation Bureau and head of Capital Road Development Corporation has been found guilty of taking bribes totalling 60 million yuan (US$7.23 million) from contractors bidding for a large scale road construction project in Beijing.
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