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WHEN he shows off his diving talents and handsome appearance on the diving board, Tian Liang is at his apex. But when he displays the same qualities in commercial activities and in front of cameras, he dives into trouble.
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- Check mates
THE abolition of the national system of compulsory premarital medical checkups about one year ago has led to a rapid increase in the rate of birth defects, and if the government fails to take effective measures, it could lead to a still more serious pubic health problem within three to five years, medical experts have warned.
- Zhejiang to offer free premarital checkups
IN East China's Zhejiang Province, one of the most wealthy areas in China, new couples will soon be offered free medical checkups before marriage registration. The exams will be paid for by the government in an effort to reduce the number of birth defects and prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
- Anxious for experience
This is the second time I've taken the national entrance test for MA/MS candidates. Although I have received offers from several companies, I would rather spend a little more time in school than choose a just so-so job.?
- Winds of change
THE gap between limited electrical power output capacity and increasing demand for electricity by the public has pushed professionals in the energy industry to seek effective solutions.
- Walking the plank
WHEN he shows off his diving talents and handsome appearance on the diving board, Tian Liang is at his apex. But when he displays the same qualities in commercial activities and in front of cameras, he dives into trouble.
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- Assassination fury
BEIRUT - International pressure mounted on Syria to ease its grip on Lebanon as stunned Lebanese prepared to bury assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri on February 16.
- Feted and hated, Kyoto goes into effect
SINGAPORE - After years of delays, a world plan to fight global warming went into force on February 16, feted by its backers as a lifeline for the planet but rejected as an economic straitjacket by the United States and Australia.
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- Japan can learn from Germany
Recently, a live TV broadcast held me spellbound as I watched the ceremony held in southern Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 1.5 million people ?mostly Jews ?were killed during World War II. What a solemn and stirring scene it was when world leaders and frail survivors alike gathered beside the ruins of the former Nazi death camp under heavy snowfall and in bitter cold to remember the victims of the Holocaust.
- Railway
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Yours truly is a frequent business traveller to Beijing and I do like to take the night ("T? train which leaves around 8 pm and arrives in Beijing the next morning at about 9:30 am.
- Gambling is the opium of the 21st century
In the early 19th century some Western powers such as Britain aggressively exported opium to China. The effects on Chinese society were devastating. The nation was subsequently defeated by the Western powers in the Opium War of 1840-42, thereby beginning a century of national humiliation.
- Post-80s works viewed as appetizer, dessert
If someone were to compile a list of the 10 top hot words in the Chinese literary arena, "post-80s writers?would certainly be on it.
- Letters
Forced beautification unrealistic
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``No kind
of real estate agency should be turned into a type of government
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- A lasting impression
NCE upon a time, there was an English castle with towering turrets and imposing outer walls, Norman in style and set in a quaint little English city, a great university centre and a melange of 10 decades of British architecture...
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- Marrying East and West
AS the world wakens from the bleak harshness of winter and once more fills with warmth and new life, love and the union of couples seems to permeate the landscape. A multitude of different species can be seen hunting for new partners, courting prospective mates, or re-affirming bonds with old companions, and the human race is no exception.
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- Spirited approach to oysters
FOR those whose palates are too "highly evolved" to accept the fresh sea smell of raw oysters, there is now a new opportunity to fall in love with this slippery ocean species, which is described by its fans as an "unsurpassable delicacy".
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