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THE news from Guangzhou of Guangdong Province is that contraceptive pills are very popular among middle-school student girls these days. The reason has nothing to do with sex.
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- From fetal lifeline to dim sum
MOST new mothers, immersed in the joy of their babies, pay little attention to the way hospitals dispose of their placentas. Outside the delivery room, however, people are busy thinking of how to make a profit from the discarded tissue.
- Tastes of motherhood
A RESTAURANT in Harbin of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province reportedly offers a "placenta feast" which has attracted many diners.
- Rush hour care
The operator of Shanghai's under ground railways, the Shentong Metro Co Ltd, proposed on May 30 raising metro and light rail prices, during a hearing held at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum.
- City put to the test
THE news from Guangzhou of Guangdong Province is that contraceptive pills are very popular among middle-school student girls these days. The reason has nothing to do with sex. Instead, it is the coming state college enrollment exam - on June 7, 8 and 9 - which has driven the demand.
- Students prepares for test as they would for battle
ANXIETY, depression, hysteria, low self-confidence, the sense of waiting for something to happen but hoping it never does. That's not the feeling of an inexperienced soldier before a fierce battle but what Zhang Jie is feeling before the college entrance examination.
- Chinese changed by the matriculation exam
o Wang Yi (Chinese vice foreign minister, Chinese ambassador to Japan) began to study Japanese at Beijing International Studies University after taking the entrance examination in 1977.
- Decision that changed the nation
"IF the college entrance examination had not resumed in 1977, I would still have been a manual worker or peasant," many Chinese who entered into universities nearly 30 years ago would say when recalling their experiences at that time.
- A different view
THE national university entrance exam or "gao kao" as it is called in Chinese, is again grabbing the attention of the whole nation. British documentary filmmaker Richard Hughes sees its significance and talks to the Shanghai Star about his observations.
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- Concert or fashion show?
To live a life of luxury and dissipation seems a distant possibility for me, not to mention wearing clothes bedecked with shining diamonds and glittery pearls, or riding in a carriage made of real gold. But that doesn't prevent me from enjoying such a visual feast for two hours.
- Rights and responsibility of begging
The northeastern port city of Dalian has become China's first city to ban begging in some public areas. The Dalian municipal government on May 8 passed a regulation in principle on the management of begging. One part of the regulation in particular forbids beggars from coming within 100 metres of municipal-level Party and government buildings and military areas. If implemented, similar begging bans would then be imposed on areas near communication centres, highways, public squares, three-star hotels and above, tourist resorts and shopping malls.
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- Disrespect for animal life in aquarium
Tourist attractions are meant to be harmless fun. Within a 10-minute walk from the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium lures droves of tourists each day. These places are meant to be showcases for world-class cities like Shanghai, a chance to dream high and large, build tall and be imaginative. Unfortunately, for me, Shanghai's premier aquarium morphes quietly into a dismal display of disrespect for animal life.
- Square pegs in round holes...
Yes, folks, the Chinese have done it!
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- Prejudice for all
AFTER being the victims of rumour for a long time, Henan people broke the silence when two Henan residents filed a lawsuit against the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau after the bureau hung huge posters in public areas suggesting Henan migrants were involved in crime (see Shanghai Star, May 19-25)
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- Eat almonds to stay young
CELEBRATED beauty specialist Tammy Liu described vitamins A and C as "wife" and "concubine" of Vitamin E, because both can help vitamin E better function in the human body. But the younger and sweeter "concubine" has more power to urge vitamin E to slow down the pace of aging.
- A place to make your money stretch
IN my opinion, a buffet restaurant is the place where you can challenge the maximum capacity of your stomach and try to fill it to the fullest with as much food as you can. It is a place you pay money but hardly find the highest standard of food and service.
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