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HOW long does it take a 10 million yuan (US$1.2 million) Rolls-Royce sedan to find an owner in Shanghai? Four hours.
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- In lane for luxury
HOW long does it take a 10 million yuan (US$1.2 million) Rolls-Royce sedan to find an owner in Shanghai? Four hours.
- Kicking the tires
SHI Wei, a 38-year-old engineer, worries when driving his second-hand car, even though the four-year-old Santana 2000 works well on the road.
- Used-car markets in China
Guangzhou: Following the enforcement of a transport regulation in April 2004 restricting motorbikes from certain sections of road during peak hours, second-hand car transactions did not show the immediate surge that was expected.
- Going, going, gone
THE out-of-date cinema on Sichuan Zhonglu has not been so busy in years. But on this occasion, it was not a movie that drew the huge crowd, but a public car auction.
- Car use placed under supervision
Various countries have adopted measures to control the use of public cars for personal business.
- Shades of glory
JUST two weeks before the 48th World Table Tennis Championship (WTTC), which will run from April 30 to May 6, was to open in Shanghai, former world champion Wang Liqin announced that he was to be transferred from Shanghai Sheng Xue Rong Table Tennis Club to Zhejiang Hai Tian Club.
- China's history at WTTC
The following is a brief review of the history of the WTTC and achievements by Chinese teams:
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- Ambiguous goodbye
MASNAA, Lebanon - The difference between Syria's entry and exit was stark.
- 91 dead in Japanese train crash
AMAGASAKI, Japan ?Rescuers untangling Japan’s worst train crash in decades uncovered body after body in the wreckage on April 27 to put the death toll at 91, but grim work remained in accounting for the dozens still missing, including the driver at the centre of the investigation into the wreck.
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- Colgate toothpaste and the media
To be honest, despite incessant news reports about potentially harmful products over the past month, I doubt whether many pose a real threat to my life. News that P&G's SK-II had been accused of including harmful ingredients left me quite indifferent because I've never been able to afford such expensive cosmetics. News that KFC's chicken wings contain "Sudan 1" (a chemical dye suspected of causing cancer) was surprising but not really worrying because I do not visit KFC very often. News that a child had choked on a jelly sweet and died aroused my sympathy, but still had nothing to do with my daily life.
- "Repentance" a difficult word for Japan
When Germany capitulated 60 years ago and the gruesome details of the slaughter of Jews, homosexuals and other "Enemies of the Nazi Third Reich" became known to the world, a correct attitude of repentance and remorse by the new German Government has, until this day, impressed all.
- Press clips
- ``Little scholar'' in the neighbourhood sows stress
The boy is 16-month-old, with a surprisingly strong desire for knowledge. According to his mother, whenever he discovers a word, he immediately asks its meaning. "So far, he has learned more than 100 Chinese characters!" said the proud mother. My parents, my husband and I listened with great admiration. My son is only two months his junior, but he has shown very little interest in any characters or books. Every day he just toddles about throwing away everything he touches, or treats a stool as a pony and pushes it to every corner of the room. What a big difference!
- The video images are shocking.
Apparently without provocation, a teenage girl in a school uniform is viciously attacked after being cornered by a gang of schoolmates. In a senseless act of out-of-control youth violence, she is caught up in a frenzied maelstrom of kicks and punches. She does her best to melt into the wall, but ends up a battered child, crying on the floor.
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- Voices
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- Return to purity of soul
SUN Wei promised to herself when she first stepped out of college that she would spend the next 10 years on a journey to widen her experience of society, in preparation for her ultimate goal - to become a writer. She fulfilled her promise in 2004, the 11th year after graduation, when she quit her prestigious job as the general manger of a TV production company to become a full-time writer.
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- On the trail of outsiders
HUMBLE transport official Nek Chand did not arouse much public attention until his secret garden, where hundreds of sculpture figures built of industrial waste and discarded items were erected in a small patch of cleared jungle, was discovered by authorities in the north Indian city of Chandigarh.
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