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WHAT will your new profile be in the new year? Country girl? Bohemian? Or sweet neighbourhood girl?
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| Life Style |
- Dance class never this much fun
Rhythmic Middle-Eastern music, entrancing belly dancing - and this is just one of the dance classes in Jazz du Funk, a modern dance studio in Shanghai. Since it was established two years ago, the studio has experienced a steady increase in the number of students. Expats have always made up the bulk of enrollment.
- PORTUGUESE
President Jorge
- Portuguese visit
Warming the islands
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| Fashion |
- Dark but shiny
WHAT will your new profile be in the new year? Country girl? Bohemian? Or sweet neighbourhood girl?
- Leather lovers
FOLLOWING the opening of its store in Shanghai, Tod's, the shoe & leather producer, has opened a new store in Beijing's China World Trade Centre.
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| Health |
- Dangerous allusions
DRUG advertisements spreading fake information or exaggerating the effects of their products will be strictly monitored this year in the city, in order to safeguard the health of local consumers and patients.
- New warning on mobile phones
LONDON - No hard evidence exists to show mobile phones damage health but users - especially children - should take care, UK scientists said in a survey last week.
- Medicines used improperly
A RECENT survey reveals the serious situation of improper medicine use in China, accounting for 12-30 per cent of all medicine use cases. Each year, adverse drug reaction causes around 2.5 million people to be hospitalized and causes the death of around 190,000, China News Service reported.
- City faces critical blood shortage
A CRITICAL shortage of blood for clinical use has forced local hospitals to cancel surgeries, local newspapers report.
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- Horseback journey to Kanas wilderness
THE Kanas or Hanas, located in the territory of Burqin County, in the central part of the Altay Mountains, is a magical and appealing place for all ages. The enchanting Mongolian name means "beautiful and mysterious".
- Sunrise in the West
AT eight o'clock in the morning in Hemu Village, 40 kilometres southeast of Kanas Lake, in the Xinjiang Ugyur Autonomous Region, the sun was just about to rise up out of the valley.
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- Co-existence with nature
As a city built on what was once an immense wetland habitat for many species of birds and other wildlife, Shanghai has a particular connection to the struggle to balance man's needs against the requirements of nature.
- Harvard hires 'fun czar' to spice up student life
HARVARD University students: overachieving, bookish bores or repressed party animals? A little of both, it seems.
- Nation focuses on rising suicides
FACED with a wave of suicides by South Koreans from all walks of life, Yoo Byoung-jong has taken on a new job.
- Atlanta golf club sparks battle over gay rights
A NEW battle in America's fight over gay rights has erupted in Atlanta, cradle of the US Civil Rights Movement, where a golf club is resisting a city order to grant spousal benefits to its gay members.
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| What's on |
- Exhibitions
reasures from Shaanxi
- Listings
stage
- New Waves
ANOTHER important art event follows close upon the heels of the Impressionism exhibition at Shanghai Art Museum. Also part of the French Culture Year in China, "Nouvelles Vagues" is an exhibition featuring works from the Pompidou Centre's modern art collection.
- Thoroughly documented look at history
An exhibition which has drawn upon the resources of over 20 top archive museums from all over the country is being held at the New Archive Museum of the Shanghai Archives Bureau, located on the Bund.
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