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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 9, 2004

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TSE has made a name for itself as a leading purveyor of high-quality, super-soft cashmere designs that go well beyond the basic cardigan.

Fashion

Warm and soft--and feminine
TSE has made a name for itself as a leading purveyor of high-quality, super-soft cashmere designs that go well beyond the basic cardigan.
Ascendas--creative, trendy, and open soon
MOST department stores try hard to attract big international brands and Ascendas Plaza, a new five-storey department store in Xujiahui has as its motto: "creative, trendy and personal".
In search of simplicity
HOW exciting will your home be in the future?
Crusade for superior leather
IF, in the 1980s, people talked about the leather goods produced in Wenzhou of neighbouring Zhejiang Province, they might have brought to mind thoughts of low-quality "copycat" items. To help change this association of ideas,, the China Leather Industry Association (CLIA) launched a "genuine leather mark" 10 years ago with the aim of improving the standards of the leather goods industry.

Health

LONDON - More than 45 million copies of the books have been sold and everyone seems to be on it, but researchers said last Friday that Atkins and other low-carbohydrate diets do not help people stay slim.
Clinical trials of low-carbohydrate diets show a greater weight loss at six months than low-fat and reduced calorie approaches in obese patients. But after 12 months, there was no difference between the two groups.
Digital hospitals
CHINESE medical experts are advocating that local hospitals be digitized using advanced foreign expertise to provide better low-cost services for patients.
Atkins diet weight loss won't last
Ruijin enters digital era
Advanced tech upgrades drug innovation
THE High Content Screening (HCS) programme will be adopted by the National Centre for Drug Screening (NCDS) in Shanghai to enhance its capacity to develop new drugs.

Travel

Seized from the sea
FOR many people, a tour of the Netherlands is closely associated with
Magical music and fireworks to light up Pudong
THE 5th Shanghai International Music and Fireworks Festival will once again light up the night sky with spectacular explosions above the city's popular Century Park, in the Pudong New Area.

Feature

Flower power
AIDE Silva has spent 13 years working in the flower planta tions surrounding Colombia's capital Bogota, making sure carnations and roses grow straight and uniform for export.
Flower power
Japan's silver spenders emerge as new economic force
Music man unstrung
IN his small workshop in Baghdad, Yussef al-Awad polishes an oud which he cradles on his lap like a child.
Trash riot protest against Italy's 'eco-mafia
THE people who live in Italy's "triangle of death" have good reason to take to the streets.

What's on

DVD REVIEWS
King Arthur
Listings
Stage
Chekhov gets physical
FOLLOWING quickly upon the city's first "physical theatre" production, a Canadian theatrical company is bringing another play rich in physical presentation.
Carmen promises grand operatic spectacle
LARGE-scale opera productions are no novelty to Shanghai audiences in the four years since Aida was staged during the second China Shanghai International Art Festival in 2000.