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THE British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)'s flagship political debate series Question Time is scheduled to broadcast a special programme from Shanghai on March 10.
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- Broadcast breakthrough
THE British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)'s flagship political debate series Question Time is scheduled to broadcast a special programme from Shanghai on March 10.
- Visions of hardship
AT the premiere of the short TV movie "San Fu Tian?on March 7, the student director Wang Long said he hoped the film about how a poor rural family supported a son going to college would result in "more attention and care?being paid to the situation of poor college students.
- Time to cool down
WORKING as a researcher in a local real estate agency, Li Xu was of those people who earned their bread from the soaring Shanghai real estate market.
- SOE boss salaries queried
CHINA is considering setting a salary ceiling for the top management of State-owned enterprises (SOEs), said a senior political adviser recently in Beijing.
- Government urged to trim the fat
WARNING against ballooning bureaucracy, which costs China billions of dollars every year in so-called "official consumption? a political adviser recently called for a new round of government streamlining focused on cutting the number of leading officials.
- Fare hike foe battles with railyway monopoly
AFTER his proposal to call off the railway ticket price-hike during the Spring Festival season, Wang Xiang, a CPPCC member from East China's Jiangxi Province, has been closely followed by Chinese netizens, according to recent ratings published by sina.com.
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- Restless souls
GUSH KATIF, Gaza Strip ?After Elkana Gubi was killed in a Palestinian ambush three years ago, his family refused a burial with military honours in Jerusalem.
- Syria faces diminished role in Lebanon, Arab world
LONDON ?Friendless and frustrated, Syria is staring at a military withdrawal from Lebanon and a dramatic erosion of its influence there and in the wider Middle East.
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- AIDS screening is a good experiment
Beginning this year, employees working in public entertainment venues in Central China's Henan Province will be required to undergo STD (Sexually Transmitted Diseases)/HIV/AIDS tests and provided with relevant information before taking a post. Those employees who do not take the STD/HIV/AIDS screening tests won't be allowed to take their posts, and the entertainment venues with such employees won't be allowed to open for business either.
- Message from the Thousand-hand Kwanyin
Those who have watched the dance "The Thousand-hand Kwanyin? performed by the Chinese Disabled People's Performing Art Troupe at the grand TV show on Lunar New Year's Eve, must have been so deeply touched by its special artistic charm that the presentation will be indelibly engraved on their memory. Not only did the dreamlike dancing touch our hearts, but the strong willpower revealed by the artists with disabilities was hugely encouraging.
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- Oscars mix stimulation and tedium
Many of us still remember the days around this year's Oscar Awards ceremony, when newspapers, websites and television programmes in Shanghai were overflowing with enthusiasm for a movie awards festival thousands of miles away.
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- Peaks of devotion
THE mountainous areas in Southwest China's Guizhou Province are an enticing travel destination. But for Xu Benyu, the volunteer teacher who was recently honoured as one of CCTV's "People Who Moved China, 2005?after spending the past two years there, life was about more than charming scenery.
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- Endangered harmonies
IN July 2003, a guqin debuted in an auction in China when the 1,000-year-old instrument was purchased by a mysterious buyer for 3.465 million yuan (US$418,000).
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- In the soup: Hot pot delight
A LONG queue of people waiting to be seated at the flagship outlet of Kuo Bee Pen Da Gourmet Cuisine on bustling Huashan Lu was discouraging.
- Seafood without the haste
For seafood lovers, an alluring choice is now available at the Hilton Shanghai.
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