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FOR the whole family to sit together around the table and enjoy a sumptuous reunion dinner is the most important part of any Lunar New Year¡¯s Eve in China. But for many Chinese young people, this most celebrated dinner of the year has become a hard source of contention ?all because they have married.
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- Reunion agonies
FOR the whole family to sit together around the table and enjoy a sumptuous reunion dinner is the most important part of any Lunar New Year¡¯s Eve in China. But for many Chinese young people, this most celebrated dinner of the year has become a hard source of contention ?all because they have married.
- Holes in the city
CHINESE New Year can put a completely different face upon a city like Shanghai, with its floating population of about 5 million, at least for a short time. Less-crowded streets and fewer casual workers ?such as street cleaners and maids ?influence the daily lives of the people who stay in town for the holiday.
- Insufficiently trained
HONGKOU Stadium has never seen such crowds. In recent days, thousands upon thousands of people have been lining up outside and inside the stadium, waiting to buy train tickets to travel home to their families for the lunar New Year Eve.
- Ice-breaking flight
On the morning of January 29, Shanghai Airline(SAL) FM807, with 260 passenger on board, and China Eastern Airlines (CEA) MU579, carrying 322 passengers, lifted off from the runaway at Shanghai Pudong International Airport bound for Taipei international airport.
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- Vote sparks rebirth of hope
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) ?Iraq¡¯s president said on February 1 it would be ¡°complete nonsense?to ask foreign troops to leave the country now, although some could depart by year¡¯s end. Officials began the final vote tally from elections to produce a government to confront the insurgency.
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- Celebrations can change without losing meaning
In less than one week, we will be celebrating China¡¯s traditional Spring Festival.
- Atkinson's words disgrace himself
Just what planet is former Manchester United Manager Ron Atkinson living on?
- Press clips
As the peak time arrives for Chinese people to travel home-bound for the Spring Festival (see ¡°Insufficiently trained? page 6), a 15-20 per cent price hike for travelling by train ?regarded by the majority of travellers as the most convenient, cost-effective and rapid form of transportation ?has once again attracted attention. The following are excerpts from two newspaper articles.
- Lesson in tale of children battling the wind
School bags are usually used by children to carry books to school. However, things are different in a primary school in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Apart from the usual contents, stones of various sizes have found their way into the kids?bags.
- Westerner finds best part missing in Chinese hospitality
Dedicated followers of these columns will recall my drab and dreary trip to a 200 kilometre distant hamlet situated to the north of Beijing. Well, the good news is that I actually did arrive. And all thanks to that modern contemporary wonder: the mobile phone.
- Voice
¡°What we learnt was how to be a good person... If necessary, they would have given their last piece of bread away. I think we should act in the same way.?
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- Consultant of swing
FEW people can boast of swinging through Shanghai and grab bing a McDonalds while wearing a monkey suit. Not many can boast of dancing with actress Natasha Richardson. And it is unusual to meet a Silicone Valley IT expert who has given up a successful seven-year career as a leading specialist and computer consultant to sell up in the US and ship out to Shanghai, with the simple intention of setting a city swinging. Yet this is James Szyszko (Jimbo to friends), Shanghai¡¯s leading swing dance virtuoso and co-founder of Shanghai¡¯s very own lindy hopping, jitterbug community, Shanghai Swings.
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- Comparatively liberated
FOR the majority of British visitors to Shanghai, one of the most interesting things to be witnessed is the abundance of communal activity occurring in the city¡¯s numerous parks and squares. At almost any time of the day, a casual stroll through these public areas will reveal them to be alive with activity.
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- A night sparkling with generosity
IT WAS a night when the whole grand ballroom shone ?from an array of crystal glasses at each place setting and precious auction items, diamonds from the South Africa.
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