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WHO has the best understanding of Pudong's transportation and geography? Who best knows how Pudong has changed year by year during the past decade?
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- Graphic
proof of change
WHO has the
best understanding of Pudong's transportation and geography?
Who best knows how Pudong has changed year by year during the
past decade?
- Urban
miracle
OUTSIDE the
window are the futuristic shapes of Pudong's skyline. Fifteen
years ago, these ultramodern glass and steel superstructures
reaching for the sky were only vague dreams for Wang Yagu. Now
they are real scenes visible through his office windows.
- History
of a `new area'
FOR many
years, Hu Wei recalled, the highest building in Pudong was a
fire station tower of something over 20 metres in height. This
situation lasted from the early days after the founding of the
People's Republic of China in 1949 until the 1980s, said Hu,
at the 20th anniversary celebrations of the Management School
of Fudan University.
- East
bank rising
LIKE many
other cities in China, Shanghai is divided into two parts by
a river. Pudong (East of the Huangpu River) and Puxi (West of
the Huangpu River), often mistakenly imagined almost to be different
cities by tourists - and at times even by local people.
- Pudong
opening turns dream into reality
From 1989
to the early 1990s, China was undergoing transformation from
the centrally planned system to the market economy. The disintegration
of the former Soviet Union and the 1989 political storm in China
led many people to doubt the country's course - could China's
reforms go into reverse? Could they endanger socialism?
- Seven
year itch
WITH China's
seven-day Labour Day and the National Day holidays now entering
their seventh year, the possibility of cancelling the holidays,
usually called "Golden Week" has become a widely discussed topic.
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- Former foes' 'Momentous shift
NEW DELHI - It was billed as an informal visit to watch a cricket match, but Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's trip to India this week may go down in history as a major step towards peace in troubled South Asia.
- Cardinals elect conservative German as new pope
VATICAN CITY - Roman Catholic Cardinals have elected arch-conservative German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope, choosing a shy, elderly theologian to defend the stern legacy of his charismatic predecessor, John Paul II.
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- Reconcile ideals with reality
The Beijing-based China Youth Daily reported in its April 4 edition a survey of more than 1,300 primary and middle school students conducted by media in the northwestern city of Urumqi, showing that 53 per cent of respondents said they most want to be private enterprise bosses and entrepreneurs when they grow up, and only 10 per cent of the students said they want to be "workers". The reason the students cited was that bosses have high salaries which allow them to live a comfortable, high-quality life, and they have much "face" in the eyes of others. By contrast, for blue-collar workers, work is dirty, tiring, and not very well-paid, and they are looked down upon as lesser people.
- Why we say `no' to Japan
Last Saturday, anti-Japanese demonstrations occurred in Shanghai, a city, as many people know, that probably hosts the largest population of Japanese expatriates in China with much less hostile sentiment than other Chinese cities. Reports about this event immediately topped the news sections of websites of major Western media, with such titles as "Violence flares as the Chinese rage at Japan" and so on. As a peace lover and independent thinker, I certainly oppose violence in any form taking place anywhere at anytime and naturally restrain myself from taking part in any mass movement, but I hope the Western media will report Sino-Japanese ties comprehensively and put the emphasis on solutions.
- Press clips
- Beijing is dying
Many would have thought that lessons had been learnt after the wholesale destruction of old Beijing in the latter part of last century, when imperial waterways were filled in, many historic buildings and even the old Beijing City Wall were demolished to make way for Russian-style monstrosities and Goliath edifices that impressed at the time.
- Fake milk powder case sounds alarms ... again
It has happened again.
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- Clearly intoxicating
FOR most people, cocktail parties are infrequent affairs, requiring weeks of outfit-planning, providing an often rare chance to dress up glamorously and enabling them to try drinks they would not normally think about. For Jeffrey Yu, however, glamorous parties and exquisite cocktails are often all in a day's work.
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| Dining out |
- The meal from hell
THE moment I stepped into the Ten-Joy restaurant, I wanted to leave. My friend and I were handcuffed by a waitress dressed in pink leather skirts like a cute detective in a Japanese cartoon. She opened a gate leading to a small room and asked us to walk into it unescorted, passing a hanging bridge under dark lights.
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