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THE city's original plan to provide local residents water that is clean enough to drink directly from the tap by 2010 has met with more difficulties than expected.
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- Dirty secrets
THE city's original plan to provide local residents water that is clean enough to drink directly from the tap by 2010 has met with more difficulties than expected.
- Woe of Shanghai's water sourcesa
The upper reaches of the Huangpu River are the main source of Shanghai's water, accounting for some 70 per cent.
- Up the creek
Dirty, stinking, with plastic bags and dead animals floating on the surface of the water - few would not hold their breath and turn their heads when walking past Suzhou Creek.
- Drought-plagued China sees water crisis peak in 2030
THE water crisis in China, where 300 million people already do not have access to drinkable water, will peak in 2030 when the population hits 1.6 billion people, a senior government official was quoted on June 8 as saying.
- Profits from pests
WHAT come to your mind upon hearing the expression: "Eliminate the four harmful pests" - mosquitoes, flies, rats and bugs?
- Beyond extermination
IT is the longest war in history but human beings will probably never achieve complete victory, because it is waged against pests: rats, mosquitoes, cockroaches, dust mites, termites, flies and others.
- Taking the axe to tax
ZHU Fuchang, an employee in a local transportation company, first heard of individual income tax in 1996, on a pay day when he found some of his 900 yuan (US$108) salary was missing.
- Tips on individual income tax for expats
INDIVIDUALS who have domicile in China and individuals who reside in China for at least one year are generally subject to Individual Income Tax on income derived from sources both within and outside China that is attributable to the work done in China.
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- Unwelcome reformer
LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair wanted to champion an agenda of liberal economic reform during Britain's six-month presidency of the European Union and use the idea to win over his Eurosceptic public.
- Sectarian politics cast shadow on constitutional process
BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the highly charged and fractious climate of today's Iraq, bringing together a representative group to write a new constitution is an enormous challenge. Producing a document that satisfies everyone may prove to be even more difficult.
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- Urban construction for the people?
An emphasis on city dwellers' needs seems to be catching on in urban construction, as the slogan "people first" has come to prevail in the field. It is surely a good thing that urban construction and architecture now pay more attention to the people, however, some cool-headed analysis is needed before we hail this new phenomenon.
- Europe hits the buffers
The rejection of the proposed EU constitution by French voters on May 29 and even more decisively by Dutch voters two days later has brought the long brewing European economic, social and political crisis into sudden definition, ensuring that 2005 will earn a place in history books as a moment of globally significant transition. Of the three countries to put the constitution to the popular vote, two have now disdained it. Whatever happens next, one thing is certain: The utopian expectation of a Europe united around a continent wide attachment to a distinctive "Rhineland model" of social-democratic welfarism is at an end.
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- Sex taboos: What to do?
China's got a sex problem. The number of single women having abortions is increasing at an exponential rate. Chinese medical experts say that last year, unmarried women accounted for about 65 per cent of abortions in major cities.
- Unaffordable college education
China Youth Daily, a Beijing-based national newspaper, reported in its May 11 edition about a survey conducted in Nong'an County of Northeast China's Jilin Province, showing that 28.7 per cent of the students there said they were afraid to go to college. The reason the students cited was that their families couldn't afford to send them to universities or colleges.
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- Great Wall marathon winner aims afar
On May 21, anyone flying high above the Great Wall of China could have looked down and seen a mass of tiny specks racing along the enormous structure. Those specks would have been marathon runners, and eventually the lone speck of Gregory Feucht separated from the others and pulled ahead to win the 6th Great Wall Marathon.
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- Amateur hearts, professional enthusiasm
CAO Yu's "Thunder Storm" is regarded as one of the most important works in the history of modern Chinese drama, yet few know who introduced it to audiences in Shanghai for the first time. It was in 1935 that the Fudan Drama Group staged the play in Shanghai for the first time, after which the play gradually won acceptance from local audiences.
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- Blessed offerings
THE Wine Bar & Grill has the Chinese name "Cang Cheng Fang" - given by a monk to bless the newly opened restaurant in the Shanghai JC Mandarin hotel with business success. Chef Christoph Gelder's arrival at the grill has made that outcome more certain.
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