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When about a dozen cats were abandoned by their owners in Yandlord Garden, an international community in the Pudong District, it was the neigbourhood committee that gave them a home and helped them find adopters.
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- Community care
PU Huiwen said that what she had learned in the past five years working in the Suicheng neighbourhood committee of a residential area in Pudong surpassed the total knowledge she obtained during the previous 20 years of her life.
- Helpers in daily affairs
When about a dozen cats were abandoned by their owners in Yandlord Garden, an international community in the Pudong District, it was the neigbourhood committee that gave them a home and helped them find adopters.
- Awkward occupation
WHEN Wang Qun enrolled at Fudan University, he chose social work as his major. But now, as he prepares to graduate, Wang does not plan to work in the field in which he has specialized for four years.
- Change on the roads
DRIVERS who collide with cyclists or pedestrians could face charges of up to 90,000 yuan (US$10,800) to compensate their victims, even if they aren't at fault for the accident, according to a draft version of the city's new traffic regulation.
- Phuket Island comes back to life
SQUEEZED together in the Bang Muang temporary shelter in Phangnag, a coastal town north of Phuket, 3,000 homeless people are calmly getting on with their lives, a sign that the worst of the tsunami disaster now lies behind them.
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- All ill-timed wedding
At the beginning
of the new year, a popular Chinese TV hostess, who is famous
for the vivacious style with which she presents her TV entertainment
show, tied the knot with her wealthy partner. According to the
media report,
- Treat mother nature with love and respect
The magnitude 9.0 Indian Ocean earthquake triggered a lethal tsunami on December 26, 2004, killing tens of thousands of people all over the region, making it the deadliest such disaster on record and a universal catastrophe for humanity.
- Charity is second best - at best
After responding with unprecedented promptness and generosity to the South Asian tsunami catastrophe, the world is starting to feel quite pleased with itself. With over US$4 billion now promised or donated by private citizens and governments, the funds available for relief work are already exceeding the capacity of the devastated areas to absorb them.
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Tsunami and globalization
- Memories of snow
It was marvelous that we entered the new year in white. For a couple of years, snow has been absent from this eastern city of China. Although snow fell once or twice in the past, it always lasted an hour at the most, sometimes even for a period as short as 10 minutes. So such a snow as we had at the end of last year is really very rare and precious in Shanghai. It was broadcast that in some parts of the city, for example, northern Chongming Island, the snow cover was the deepest ever recorded.
- Voices
"Over the last few years our research has shown that the main purpose of saving among both urban and rural citizens is education, exceeding even housing and pensions. This is not normal."
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- Knight fall in Zhejiang
WHO is the best selling modern author in China? Although no official statistics are available, most people would agree that Jin Yong the undisputed master of the kungfu novel is the winner.
- Hotel pioneer dies in the tsunami
REGGIE Shiu, senior vice-president for Shanghai-based Accor Asia Pacific (AAPC), was among the casualties of the tsunami that hit the Khao Lak seafront in southern Thailand on December 26, 2004.
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- Brilliant enlightenment
WHEN Wang Shenghong, the president of Fudan University, receives his counterparts from foreign universities, a necessary question he often has to answer is: why is the university named Fudan?
- Centenary celebrations
AFTER two-and-a-half years of dedicated preliminary work, anniversary activities started on January 1, 2005 and will continue until the end of the year. More than 100 special celebrations aim to enhance the academic atmosphere of Fudan University. Some major events include:
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- Diet without the pain
IT'S easy to gain some holiday weight within a week but hard to get rid of it in the same short period, especially when another week-long Spring Festival holiday is just around the corner.
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