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ONE person, six days and eighteen restaurants. The challenge was a simple one: locate, sample and compare Western-style breakfasts in Shanghai. The gauntlet was thrown down, the challenge accepted ?for the next six days I would be enjoying ¡®breakfast?for every meal, all in a virtuous attempt to provide you with a comprehensive (though by no means exhaustive) guide to breakfasts out in Shanghai.
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| Life Style |
- Star breakfasts
ONE person, six days and eighteen restaurants. The challenge was a simple one: locate, sample and compare Western-style breakfasts in Shanghai. The gauntlet was thrown down, the challenge accepted ?for the next six days I would be enjoying ¡®breakfast?for every meal, all in a virtuous attempt to provide you with a comprehensive (though by no means exhaustive) guide to breakfasts out in Shanghai.
- Help for the undecided
Healthy Options:
- Oscar winners and losers
¡°MILLION Dollar Baby?director Clint Eastwood was the big winner at the Oscars on February 27, but spare a thought for Martin Scorsese and Annette Bening, forced once again to smile through their disappointment.
- Rise of a superpower
THE 2005 Barnett-Oksenberg Lecture on Sino-American Relations was held in the Jinjiang Auditorium on February 28. J Stapleton Roy, former US Ambassador to China and senior diplomat, gave the keynote speech, sharing insights on ¡°The Rise of China and US-China Relations?with hundreds of listeners from home and abroad.
- Share know-how at MASHAV
THE 2005 MASHAV Spring Festival Party initiated the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Consulate General of Israel in Shanghai.
- Funny art, hard to get
A CONTEMPORARY interactive art show entitled ¡°Funny Shanghai?on the night of February 26 attracted hundreds to the Creek Art Centre perched on the banks of Suzhou Creek.
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| Fashion |
- Try a natural look
SPRING/summer 2005 will see strong emphasis on the natural look in make-up, according to a beauty report from P&G. Health is wealth and the face should reflect that.
- Most stylish women in the region
STYLE is often indescribable ?it is something difficult to capture in words. But Asia Tatlers tries to manage this impossibility: the magazine gathered nine of the region¡¯s icons of chic to present Asia¡¯s true definition of style. Two women from the Chinese mainland, Li Ying (left) from Beijing and Xia Heting from Shanghai were selected. Li is successful in Beijing¡¯s high-end auto dealing business, while Xia, a Shanghai native, was chosen for her beauty, modesty and grace.
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| Health |
- World's first anti-smoking treaty becomes law
Manila ?The world¡¯s first tobacco control treaty, the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), becomes binding international law on Sunday, February 27.
- Weeding out a bad habit
¡°The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is expected to be approved by the National People¡¯s Congress and all tobacco advertisement will be banned within five years after the ratification of the world treaty,?an official of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration told the Beijing News.
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| Travel |
- Among nature's sculptures
FOR the upcoming Spring Festival, I had to make a troublesome choice: would I return to my hometown, a city far away from Shanghai, to unite with my parents, or celebrate the festival alone for the first time in my life.
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- Scent of antiquity
EGYPT¡¯s Queen Cleopatra showed how to woo members of the opposite sex with it, the French may have perfected it, but it is the Cypriots who can now lay claim to the world¡¯s oldest perfumery.
- Asian chip makers face cut-throat competition
TWICE a week, semiconductor executive John Nelson cloaks himself head to toe in a white jumpsuit to pace the sterile corridors of his wafer fabrication plant, sited by a branch of the Sarawak river in western Borneo.
- Growing legion of ¡®NEET
TATSUHIRO Nakayama spends day and night playing Internet games and scoffs at the idea of work.
- Medieval love letters ignite war of words in France
TWO star-crossed medieval lovers, Abelard and Heloise, are again stirring passions in France as a literary controversy rages nearly 900 years after their affair.
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| What's on |
- Events
While the
stage performance of ¡°The Phantom of the Opera?is approaching
a record-making 100 shows in Shanghai, this ¡°most personal
work?of Andrew Lloyd Webber has hit the big screen worldwide.
- Following
his heart
AN original
play entitled ¡°Amber?coming from Beijing will be staged
in the city.
- Drums
of enlightenment
A DRUM-based
music and dance event is being presented by the U-Theatre from
Taiwan.
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