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AFTER receiving a transplant consisting of part of her mother's liver on January 9, a 9-month-old girl called Yangyang was in good condition. Doctors said she wakened after the surgery and was being kept under close observation.
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- Week in brief
SHANGHAI
- Weather this week
A COLD current arriving in the city on January 14 will reduce the lowest temperature to minus 3 degrees centigrade at the weekend. The drizzle accompanying the current will not last long, with the following week consisting mainly of cloudy days. (Star News)
- New chapter anticipated
JERUSALEM Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Mahmoud Abbas on January 11 to congratulate him over his landslide victory in an election to replace Yasser Arafat, signaling Israel's readiness to work with the new Palestinian team after years of boycotting Arafat.
- Building enthusiasm
OVERSEAS investment in the Shanghai high-end office market lowered the vacancy rate to 7.2 per cent in the last quarter of 2004, a new low in the past 10 years, according to Colliers International, a cross-national property service company.
- Domestic group committed to hair-raising plans
ZHANGGUANG 101 Group Corporation, which produces medicine for the treatment of baldness, plans to expand its overseas market by launching a production base in Japan while consolidating its domestic market.
- City aims to be world shipping centre
THIS year is a crucially important one for the city's economic development, with the preliminary framework for an international shipping centre taking shape, according to top port officials who on January 11 reviewed the port's achievements last year.
- RMB cards can be used for payment outside China
HOLDERS of Chinese currency UnionPay banking cards can pay for their shopping, dining, travelling and medical bills, and extract cash in local currency, as of January 10 in the Republic of Korea (ROK), Thailand and Singapore, the first time ever for the card to be used outside China.
- Biz birefs
Health acquisition
- Transplant for infant succeeds
AFTER receiving a transplant consisting of part of her mother's liver on January 9, a 9-month-old girl called Yangyang was in good condition. Doctors said she wakened after the surgery and was being kept under close observation. Her mother, Hu Yan, was recovering well.
- Bad habits made easy for youth
A SURVEY has shown underage people can still buy cigarettes and alcohol without difficulty, despite the passage of a regulation last November forbidding the sale of these articles to minors, the Shanghai Evening Post reported.
- Consumer complaints up
OFFICIAL statistics show that mobile phones, air-conditioners, furniture, vehicles and computers received the most complaints from consumers in 2004, according to a report released by Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision on January 11, the Shanghai-based Youth Daily reported.
- Income gap widens
THE income gap between urban and rural residents has risen slightly over the past year, although the rate at which this gap is widening has significantly slowed, the Shanghai Morning Post reported, citing official statistics.
- Love remains unnotarized
TO show sincerity to her boyfriend, a 25-year-old woman wrote a guarantee letter and asked for a "love notarization". Her request was refused by the notarization department, the Shanghai Morning Post reported.
- Market movement
THE Xiushui Market, a bustling outdoor bazaar in Beijing, which has a reputation for selling fake brand-name products comparable to that of Xiangyang Market in Shanghai, was dismantled over the week, making way for a new indoor shopping mall.
- 25 killed in fireworks accident
THE death toll from a firecracker factory explosion in northern China was raised to 25 on January 12, with nine injured.
- Numbers of the week
455 billion
- Exam questions leaked again
THE investigation into the leaking of questions from the nationwide College English Tests (CET) has turned up the IP address of the culprits, Beijing Morning Post reported.
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