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ZHAO Yang, a 33-year-old programmer in a software company, started visiting a massage clinic a year ago, after he noticed his left shoulder was almost numb after an eight-hour day of clicking on the keyboard and staring at the screen.
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- White-collar casualties
ZHAO Yang, a 33-year-old programmer in a software company, started visiting a massage clinic a year ago, after he noticed his left shoulder was almost numb after an eight-hour day of clicking on the keyboard and staring at the screen.
- Does the office make you sick?
JOY Li was the victim of renovation - just weeks after moving into an office building on Nanjing Donglu, she began suffering from a running nose, sore throat and severe chronic headache.
- Don't breathe the air
IF Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) hadn't broken out in China in 2003, people might not have given much consideration to indoor air quality.
- Economic musle
A SPORTS roundtable at the Fortune Global Forum in Beijing on May 15 highlighted China's sports industry potential.
- Complicated collections
INTERNATIONAL Museum Day, on May 18, has stimulated public enthusiasm for visiting historical sites in Shanghai.
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- Premature RMB revaluation could hurt everybody
International trade politics is going through an exceptionally bad tempered patch, with the Renminbi - pegged at 8.28 to the US dollar since 1995 - coming under sustained rhetorical assault in Europe and the United States. Currency speculators are trying to position themselves for a sharp revaluation of the RMB, adding to the pressure. Yet the intellectual case underpinning the latest wave of attacks on the RMB is extraordinarily weak.
- Don't miss the shrimp hiding in her naval
It's quite amazing it took this long.
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- Health is glass ball among those if rubber
If you are an office worker, you are very likely to be suffering from a little discomfort and pain, fatigue and impotence, ageing, seasonal reactive disorder, emotional problems, working depression or chronic illness.
- Hasty urbanites need time to stop and smell the roses
Recently, I made a trip to an area neighbouring the city. I had expected to escape the bustle of the metropolis and soak in the undisturbed beauty of nature. However, while I was staying at a villa in the woods, I found myself still pondering the trivial business of daily life. This brought me to the realization that I live in the busy mundane world, and my heart would always be there.
- Yes, folks, the Chinese have done it!
And full marks for that.
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- Cycles of rebirth
PAUL Stepanek can't stand cycling in the city, which makes him an oddity among Shanghai bike store owners.
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- Patriotic sashimi
ONE of my patriotic friends who wanted to eat Japanese food undertook careful research into the candidate restaurants to find out whether the owners were Chinese or Japanese. She discovered that Uminosachi, a hot all-you-can-eat Japanese chain restaurant had been opened by a Shanghainese.
- Absolutely luscious
AFTER its debut in the United States market in 2003, Absolut Vanilia has been brought to China. Five of the eight flavours of Absolut vodka are now available.
- Thai it on at the Four Seasons
GUEST chef Pitak Srichan from Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai has come to Shanghai to create authentic Thai flavours for diners at Cafe Studio in the sister hotel in Shanghai.
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