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THE word "Sudan" was not particularly familiar to Chinese, before a food crisis encompassing hundreds of different food products that were found to be contaminated with an illegal industrial dye called "Sudan I" began in February this year.
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- Food dye lessons
THE word "Sudan" was not particularly familiar to Chinese, before a food crisis encompassing hundreds of different food products that were found to be contaminated with an illegal industrial dye called "Sudan I" began in February this year.
- Should we be worried
FOOD safety experts said people should avoid food contaminated with the illegal dye Sudan I because it's not safe. But panic is unnecessary.
- Food shocks
MARCH 19, 2003 was an unforgettable day. A total of 292 children from eight primary schools in Haicheng of Northeast China's Liaoning Province suffered food poisoning after drinking a kind of "high nutrition soybean milk".
- Unwanted advances
SEXUAL harassment has reportedly been included in the amendment to China's Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Women (LPRIW) that has been included on the legislative agenda for 2005.
- Record of China's sexual harassment lawsuits
CHINA'S first lawsuit against sexual harassment, which began in June, 2001, resulted in the plaintiff losing the case after the court in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, decided the woman surnamed Tong failed to provide sufficient evidence.
- Making sense of English
TWO billion people - a third of the entire human race - could be learning English by 2010 to 2015, according to a new report commissioned by the British Council. The main findings from the report, entitled "The Future of English", by language researcher David Graddol, raised serious issues related to the expansion of English.
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- Scared of the market
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders endorsed looser budget deficit rules on March 22 that should spare Germany and France from punishment, and backtracked on a controversial plan to liberalize the market for services.
- Minnesota school shooter wore bullet-proof vest
BEMIDJI, Minnesota - A 16-year-old boy who killed nine people and then himself on a Minnesota Indian reservation was wearing a bullet-proof vest when he chased a teacher and fellow students into a classroom and gunned them down, the FBI said on March 22.
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- More
is needed than free checkups
China's new
marriage registration regulations, which changed the premarital
medical examination from mandatory to voluntary, took effect
on October 1, 2003 amid public acclaim. However, since then,
the rate for taking premarital medical checkups has significantly
declined. In 2002 the rate in Beijing was as high as 99.29 per
cent, but the figure dropped to 4.11 per cent by the end of
May, 2004. Some areas, such as South China's Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region, have seen the number of couples voluntarily
taking the premarital medical examination drop to zero.
- Stereotypes
hamper women job seekers
Here is a
bright idea: "If there is a market that only recruits women
applicants, it will certainly boost the employment rate for
women and create more jobs for them because it will deftly bar
the stronger sex (which is also a stereotype) from competing
with the women for the same job."
- Is
the death penalty dying in China?
I am writing
this article to respond to the letter about the death penalty
published in the last edition of the Shanghai Star as well as
to offer a little of my own legal thinking on this controversial
issue in China. Before penetrating the essence of the problem,
we'd better bear in mind that the implementation or abolition
of a legal policy is usually driven by more than moral considerations.
In other words, a justified thing, from the standpoint of jurisprudence,
is not necessarily justified by morality or so called "natural
justice".
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- Echoes of ancient sacrifice
CHINA'S patriotic songs have always been sung by experienced artists in the style of Chinese folk songs, with a resounding voice expressing rich emotion during the performance.
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- Spice in moderation
SHANGHAI has about 10 Indian restaurants, but only two of them have really become the talk of the town: the Tandoor and the India Kitchen.
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