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THE name "Sister Furong (lotus)" has recently appeared in the entertainment news on one of the largest portal websites in China, sina.com, together with the hottest news such as that of Tom Cruise's marriage to his young sweetheart on July 4. By June 27, this name had become the most frequently googled entertainment word, receiving about 1.27 million searches, followed by those for top Taiwanese singer Jay Chow.
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- Ego pays off
THE name "Sister Furong (lotus)" has recently appeared in the entertainment news on one of the largest portal websites in China, sina.com, together with the hottest news such as that of Tom Cruise's marriage to his young sweetheart on July 4. By June 27, this name had become the most frequently googled entertainment word, receiving about 1.27 million searches, followed by those for top Taiwanese singer Jay Chow.
- Online star and their anas
SISTER Furong, Muzimei, Zhuying Qingtong, Liumang Yan are the best-known online stars in China and are rapidly becoming familiar to the public.
- New order, or no order?
When Andy Warhol's tedious "Empire" was first screened in 1964, many critics were shocked by the film. For eight hours nothing appeared on screen but a shot of the Empire State Building from dusk to dawn. Some critics laughed and declared the work a vulgar and outrageous challenge to traditional cinema. But later, after his famous Marilyn Monroe prints had won acceptance, it became a signature of Warhol's explorations in the fields of art.
- Leaky identities
STILL a few months before getting the keys to his new apartment, Kevin Wu, an employee of a local consulting company, encountered an unexpected headache: phone calls from property agencies asking him whether he would like to sell his new home.
- Digital electronic theft
A SMART thief from Hunan Province who stole data from credit cards and then withdrew money from the accounts has been identified as an inventor.
- Brother can you spare a kidney?
JUNE 22, 2005 may have been the turning point for Li Xinquan's family in Tingzhou City of East China's Shandong Province.
- Kindness of strangers
THE first liver transplant between two unrelated people was successfully carried out in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
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- Tougher stance
TEHRAN-President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election victory completes a conservative grip on Iran's main levers of power that will likely lead to greater tension with the West and a more isolationist economic policy.
- Two decades on, people power haunts Philippines
MANILA-Tom Talledo has seen it all before.
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- Freak me out
Beauty, nudity... now comes the third wave of the website click-rate pull: abnormality. Among other out-dated or surpassed Internet slapstick stars, a nova BBS shock jock, with her flood of online pictures, is "entertaining us to death" in an unprecedented mass-communication way that Neil Postman could never have imagined.
- A better city heeds of its people
In my opinion piece published at the beginning of June, I criticized urban development for a lack of attention paid to ordinary residents, pedestrians and a preference for Western features over local characteristics. Recently, the term "human scale" in urban development has been discussed among scholars. To me, this term can be broken down into the following aspects in efforts to improve our city.
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- Leaders of tomorrow learn how today
Good leaders are not born - they are made.
- Haagen-Dazs, I'll miss you
It has been mighty hot outside lately, hasn't it?
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- Collect calling
TWO months after Gao Zhijun suspended his graduate studies in civil engineering at Tongji University to work full time in rubbish collection and recycling, he found himself at the centre of a national debate about whether his move was wise.
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- Cooled through the ages
LOCAL restaurants are losing no time in offering cold noodles after the first real heat wave arrived in the city last weekend, bringing the scorching feeling of summer with it.
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- Luxurious summer treat
LIKE the hotel itself, the Chinese restaurant Li Palace inside maintains a low-key presence to the public. Although the hotel, which used to receive only national figures, has been opened to ordinary customers, the splendid restaurant seems still to be quite exclusive, with a small number of diners, mostly officials and successful businessmen.
- Italian gala dinner
The Italian lifestyle festival, Art in Life 2005 ended on June 25, with a grand dinner event featuring almost all elements of Italian creativity: food, fashion, music and luxury goods.
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