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Yong, a reporter from the Shanghai Youth Daily, had a bitter experience
when seeking treatment for his chronic gastritis in the Shanghai
Oriental Hospital in Pudong. He later sued the hospital for giving
him unnecessary medical examinations and medicines. |
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- Hospitals on life-support
Zhu Yong,
a reporter from the Shanghai Youth Daily, had a bitter experience
when seeking treatment for his chronic gastritis in the Shanghai
Oriental Hospital in Pudong. He later sued the hospital for
giving him unnecessary medical examinations and medicines.
- Healthy scepticism
THERE's high-tech medicine and modern medical treatment on the one side and acupuncture, massage, herbal medicine and moxibustion on the other: a hard decision for patients from China as well as those from the West.
- Dazzling but dangerous
CONCERNED architectural experts have called on city authorities to take urgent measures to cut the glare reflected from the dazzling glass facades of Shanghai's high-rises and to check their overall safety.
- Disadvantages of glass walls
ALTHOUGH the glass facade looks striking, glare remains a major problem.
- Fanning eternal flames
SHANGHAI has seen high temperatures for weeks in succession, but this has not meant improved business for fan makers.
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- China moves to back 'Pacific Plan
APIA, Samoa - An ambitious regional development plan for the South Pacific moved a small but firm step forward at a just-concluded regional summit of small island nations.
- Bombs kill two in Istanbul
ISTANBUL, Turkey - A previously unknown Kurdish group has claimed responsibility for pre-dawn bomb attacks last Tuesday against two hotels in Istanbul's tourist districts that killed two people and injured 11 others.
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- What to do about the 'oldest profession'?
Recently, when talking about the AIDS problem in China, Vice Health Minister Wang Longde indicated that employees in a "special line of business" might be required to undergo compulsory medical check-ups.
- Airlines in a spin over flight delays
When you are told that your plane is going to be delayed for 24 hours would you accept the 150 yuan (US$18) offered by the airline as monetary compensation or would you protest and ask for more?
- Naive foreigner puts on a brave face
Many regular readers of the "Opinion" pages would have come to know me as a mostly, benign character, forever idealistic and one who, in his own way, is trying to assist in making China and the rest of the world a better place for all to enjoy.
- Blood-curdling experience in finding work
As a female law student, I faced sex and "regional" discrimination on my first job-hunting expedition. It was about five years ago and, at that time, males and Shanghainese were much more welcome than females when it came to finding work in the legal field in Shanghai. So as soon as I had introduced myself in standard Mandarin, the interviewers told me that they would not consider me as a candidate because they were looking for local and male graduates.
- Where has all the welfare gone?
My friend's mother is extremely worried about her soon-to-be-retired status. Unlike some Chinese in their early 50s, she does not worry about how she will cope with life without going to work - she has already been unemployed for more than four years from a State-owned enterprise (SOE). What makes her uneasy is the security of her pension, owed by her employer in Xi'an, of West China's Shaanxi Province.
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- Cun connoisseur
WHEN 73-year-old Qian Bochun says he has fired almost every type of gun available in China, he is not boasting.
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- Drawing on Chinese characteristics
MODERN cartoons are an exotic cultural form in China, where they are gaining increasing popularity throughout the broad and heated world of youth culture and entertainment. However, traditional Chinese cartoons seem to have been lost in the worldwide cartoon wave that swept into homes in the 1990s.
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