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RMANI Exchange's spring/summer 2005 fashion show takes top honours for its unusual approach - no T-stage, no cat-walks, no super stars, but an interesting locale that complemented the collection's theme and spoke eloquently about what was to unfold. The invitation's intriguing suggestion that women attending the show should not wear high heels only added to the allure.
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- On
the water and off
THE new wealthy
of China - including the wealthy-to-be - have a chance to see
what the future holds in two upscale lifestyle expositions to
be held soon in the Shanghai Exhibition Centre.
- THEY
are back, due to popular demand.
Having started
off as a crazy idea one evening, when the Hilton Chefs gathered
around a table, the Chefs of Chefs night early last December
turned out to be a great success.
- Expat
wisdom
ROBIN Pascoe,
a Canadian journalist, writer and public speaker specializing
in global living, came to Shanghai last week and spoke to the
city's expatriate community about how to make the most of their
expatriate experience.
- Lifeline
extends services
LIFELINE
Shanghai is celebrating its one-year anniversary with new objectives
identified for the year ahead.
- Norah
came to Shanghai
Jones performed
her deliberately chosen songs which includes the ones in her
albums, ``Come Away With Me'' and ``Feels like Home''.
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- 'Ray' wins 4 NAACP image nods
"RAY" hit all the right notes at the 36th NAACP Image Awards on March 19, as the Ray Charles biopic nabbed four awards, including outstanding motion picture and yet another best actor nod for Jamie Foxx.
- Dressed for the jungle
ARMANI Exchange's spring/summer 2005 fashion show takes top honours for its unusual approach - no T-stage, no cat-walks, no super stars, but an interesting locale that complemented the collection's theme and spoke eloquently about what was to unfold. The invitation's intriguing suggestion that women attending the show should not wear high heels only added to the allure.
- Joyful wrappings
Colours playing in the sunlight is the key theme for the spring 2005 line of Marja Kurki's scarves and ties.
- Good to know
Dry-cleaning is recommended for silk scarves. If you want to wash your silk scarves by hand, make sure you follow these instructions:
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- Curbing a silent killer
ONE million people with tuberculosis (TB) go unnoticed in East Asia and the Pacific every year, thus missing the chance to be cured and fuelling the spread of the epidemic, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said recently.
- Briefs
Conjoined twins die
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- Ice and light wonderland
THE first ice sculpture exhibition in Shanghai opened in February near Luxun Park in the Hongkou District. The exhibition will last until May 6. Even after the arrival of the first spring sunshine, people can still enjoy a unique artform that originated in icy northeastern China.
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- New Mecca for gays
GAY tango classes and same sex unions may not be mentioned in every guidebook, but such attractions are turning Buenos Aires into a new South American Mecca for gay travellers.
- Abstinence education has chilling effect in US
HALF a dozen 13-year-old boys eat pizza and drink soda as they watch a video on how to resist peer pressure.
- Impossible mission
SINCE her daughter became Cambodia's first confirmed bird flu victim, 42-year-old Tim Ran has stopped eating chicken.
- US court rejects appeal over woman's feeding tube
A US court rejected an appeal by the parents of a brain-damaged Florida woman who had asked for her feeding tube to be reinserted, according to an opinion issued on March 23.
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- Exhibitions
- Stage
- Shifting scenes
PHOTOGRAPHY, an innovation that changed the visual art scene for ever, was invented by the French, who also claim to have been its greatest masters, especially in the early stages of the genre. Many classic French photographs are found throughout the world's magazines, postcards and posters.
- Urban Folk Music Festival
When it comes to urban folksongs or ballads, Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel are the most frequently mentioned names. But for most Chinese, the "school ballads" which derived from Western ballads but refreshed with Chinese peculiarities was the most impressive development of the 1990s.
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