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SONG Youfa, a local farmer on Chongming Island, is extremely busy even when it’s not harvest season.
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- Growth with environmental care
SONG Youfa, a local farmer on Chongming Island, is extremely busy even when it’s not harvest season.
- Dear creatures
THE five spotted deer that died between November 10 and 13 at Peach Park succumbed to either over-sensitivity to medicine or medicine poisoning, according to sources with the park. Deer are first-class State-level protected animals in China.
- Medical attraction for expats
HIS first experience visiting a physician in a hospital in Pudong last year was unforgettable and unpleasant for Bill, an Australian working in Shanghai.
- Deadly incident in air
THE black boxes, or the flight-data recorders, of the plane that crashed on November 21 in Baotou, a city in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, were finally found at noon Wednesday after three days of salvage operations.
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- Gaining perspective on bullfighting
Nothing like a controversial sporting event to bring out the opinionated tuppeny giver in all of us. Especially if criticizing that sporting event is remotely fashionable and backed with letters of endorsement from C-list celebrities and publicity pundits. What irritates me about events like Shanghai’s hosting of a bullfight is not the spectacle itself but the bilious uproar it arouses. Of the world’s ills bullfighting doesn’t even rate, but the hypocrisy of many of its critics does.
- Healthier toys for children
Most educators believe that playing is a form of learning.
- Queues are welcome sight
It has been almost three years since I left Shanghai to return to the US, and coming back, it was exciting to see the city again. In the year and a half I had spent working for the Shanghai Star I had learned a little Mandarin, got to know a lot about the Chinese people, and finally figured out how to get a hamburger at McDonalds.
- A game of cat and mouse
“You come, they go; You go, they come...’’
- How do you raise a child in today's China?
At only eight months old, my son has been driving us toward bankruptcy. At the same time, he has kept us haunted by a sense of guilt. Sound impossible? The following is my story.
- Balance called for in media covergae
Several years ago, a girl from Hong Kong came to the Chinese mainland. Almost immediately she was surprised by the media. There was a great deal of “good news?in newspapers and TV programmes.
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- Sticking to our roots
GOT her picture! So great!?Zheng Liyu cried out as she showed her peers the picture she had taken of Jane Goodall with her mobile phone. The eyes of the student from Shanghai Aquatic University were shining with excitement and joy.
- The future is functional yet trendy
GERMAN industrial designer Ute Kranz gave a presentation of the latest trends in ceramic design in town recently.
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- In Memory of Iris Chang
TWO weeks have elapsed and I am still haunted by heartfelt sorrow after the shocking death of Chinese American historian Iris Chang earlier this month. My pain is shared by Chinese all over the world.
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