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PETER A. Borger, executive vicepresident of Siemens Ltd, China, (see cover picture) became the city’s first applicant for China’s new permanent residence card for foreigners.
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- Easy come, easy go
PETER A. Borger, executive vicepresident of Siemens Ltd, China, (see cover picture) became the city’s first applicant for China’s new permanent residence card for foreigners.
- Ways to lose a `green card'
PEOPLE with “green cards?will be deprived of their permits if they do any of the following:
- Dateline Shanghai
ANT to find your Mr/Miss Right in the shortest possible time? Six minutes may bring you love.?
These words are written on a table, at which a young man named Wu Ruqi sits, waiting for his series of six-minute dates with 12 girls.
- Struggling against death
WANT my son to come back. I want him to play, to run and do anything that he did before,?Yvette McGeehan said, holding her son Dominic tightly and kissing his forehead.
- Indigestible technology
UP to 100,000 tons of discarded electronic goods ranging from computers to refrigerators are piling up in Shanghai and the city has no means of disposing of the environment-threatening junk.
- How to apply
THE Police Bureau suggests all applicants first use the dedicated hotline or the government website to acquire a thorough understanding of the relevant policies. It is best to have a reservation by telephone.
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- Multiple mobile menaces
My first and most memorable visit to China was way back in 1982. What a refreshing change Beijing was at that time compared to London, Los Angeles or Leeuwarden.
- Environmental concern shows social progress
In the middle of August this year, a hearing was held in Beijing to find out the facts concerning the erection of a transmission pylon for a power line that had a supervoltage of 220 KV and a height of 50 metres. Construction of this monster structure, one of the key projects of the city, began in January this year. And it has ever since aroused serious apprehensions and complaints from the work units and a residential community nearby.
- Lack of creativity or professional ethics?
I was very scared to hear that some ambitious directors were preparing to adapt the four classical Chinese novels (i.e. A Dream of Red Mansions, The Three Kingdoms, All Men Are Brothers and Journey to the West). Actually, I was more than scared, perhaps agitated. They have finally reached this point!
- Money-the root of medical immorality?
In China medical workers are honoured by the public with the title “Angels in White? but in some places this title is giving way to “Wolves in White?
- More needed on official car ban
The last issue of Shanghai Star carried a story about the government’s decision to suspend the purchase of official cars for one year.
- China's great experimentalist
The centennial anniversary of Deng Xiaoping’s birth is a natural time to reflect upon this extraordinary individual and leader, to whom the world in general, and China in particular, owe an incalculable debt. Deng was not only a revolutionary, even more consequentially he had the resilient courage, intellectual agility and vision to revolutionize the revolution, transforming Chinese Marxism into the greatest political engine of social and economic development that the world has ever known.
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- Re-educated by nature
TANG Xiyang likes to describe himself as a walker rather than a writer or pioneer of the environment protection movement in China.
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- Muscular tradition
ALTHOUGH, in the modern Olympics, China doesn’t display any special superiority in such sporting events as soccer, track and field, polo or swimming, Chinese people actually began engaging in these activities long ago ?in some cases before the original Greek Olympics even existed.
- `Righteous' diplomat-China's Schindler
IN the years before World War II, ahead of the coming Holocaust, tens of thousands of Jews tried to flee Germany and other Axis countries. As the only city in the world with an “open door?for refugees in those days, Shanghai became home to more than 30,000 of them.
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