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AS Christmas draws near, Nancy Wang is thinking about taking her daughters back to the United States. “They haven’t enjoyed the merry atmosphere of Christmas for a long time,?she said. Speaking of her two American-Chinese daughters, Wang was filled with conflicting feelings.
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- Costly housing
AS she prepared for her upcoming wedding in early December, Ye Qing became increasingly uncertain about whether it had been wise to spend 890,000 yuan (US$10,760) on a second-hand apartment in November.
- Foreign buyers not to blame for price rises
MARCUS Ford, manager of the restaurant M on the Bund, recently bought an apartment on Beijing Donglu, close to the Bund.
- Thinning out the city
THE Shanghai city government has launched a new round of urban planning aimed at improving the quality of life in the city. The plan calls for decreasing the population in the downtown from 9.7 million to about 8.5 million by 2020.
- When East meets West
AS Christmas draws near, Nancy Wang is thinking about taking her daughters back to the United States. “They haven’t enjoyed the merry atmosphere of Christmas for a long time,?she said. Speaking of her two American-Chinese daughters, Wang was filled with conflicting feelings.
- Home schooling gains favour
WITHOUT tuition fees or text books, a group of boys and girls 9 to 18 years of age study together at Catherine Lamb's house in Shanghai.
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- Stable power management
MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin may not like what he sees in Ukraine, but he can be confident a "people power" revolution is unlikely to spread to Russia despite political similarities with its neighbour, analysts say.
- Al Qaeda defies Saudi crackdown to strike US target
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Eighteen months after Saudi Arabia launched a crackdown on al Qaeda, defiant militants showed they still posed a threat with a strike against a symbol of arch-enemy the United States on December 6.
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- To reward, or not to reward ?
- Dialects can survive by themselves
China's State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) recently issued a notice banning domestic radio and TV stations from translating foreign radio and TV programmes into any local dialect. The notice said that such dialect translation contradicts the national initiative to promote Putonghua, or Mandarin, around the country. Foreign programmes that have been translated into dialects must be removed from television and radio immediately.
- Shanghai as a haven of art
First, "Les Miserables," then, "Cats," now, "The Phantom of the Opera" - Shanghai is embracing the world's finest art every year.
- Rights of migrant workers are inviolable
The CCTV news channel aired a report on November 12 about seven migrant workers from the countryside of Shandong and Liaoning provinces who had attempted to commit suicide by consuming large quantities of drugs in their temporary shed in the city of Shenyang in Northeast China's Liaoning Province. Fortunately, a few hours after they took the medicine, they happened to be found lying unconscious by a passerby, and were rushed to a first aid centre for emergency treatment. To our great relief, due to the joint efforts of six doctors who stayed with them in the intensive care unit for a couple of hours, they were ultimately snatched from the jaws of death.
- Enterprise under attack
The most touching and sad image stored in my mind for many years has been the face of a weeping farmer, whose small food stand along with its tables and chairs was confiscated by governmental officials of the Industrial and Commerce Bureau. She was crying and begging on behalf of her staff on a street in Pudong during a cold winter. The stall was probably the sole basis of her livelihood in Shanghai. Her cry was the sound of a person whose last hope had been destroyed.
- Voice
"The style of architecture in the 21st Century will change and these skyscrapers will seem out of date."
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- A nose that knows its spirits
THE fragrance of whisky and chocolate filled the classic building on Bund 18. Colin Scott, master blender for Chivas Brothers, proposed a number of toasts to the guests who had been invited to attend the special party for whisky lovers.
- High-tempo ambitions
A DANCER with no training and less than a year of practice is challenging a world record.
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- Beatles' flame kept alive
EIGHT rock'n'roll bands, more than three hours of shows and continuous screaming from several hundred fans marked a concert on December 4 to commemorate the death of John Lennon at the Ark, a popular rock club in Xintiandi.
- First Western Hotel in Shanghai
WITH the Shanghai Mansion on one side and baroque style old buildings on the other, the Astro House Hotel - or Richard's Hotel, as it was once known - stands at 15 Huangpu Lu, overlooking the river of the same name.
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