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| Views sought on old houses |
| The Jing'an District plans to hold public hearings to decide how to conserve more than 20 old houses - including the former residence of Hong Kong first chief executive's father, city officials said yesterday.
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| Electronics company rides boom |
| GOME Electrical Appliances Holdings Ltd, China's biggest electronics retailer, announced yesterday that its 2007 profit rose 38 percent as the country's booming economy spurred domestic consumption, Bloomberg News... |
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| Mexico eases past China |
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MEXICO strolled to a 1-0 win over China in a friendly at Qwest Field in Seattle, its first game since Hugo Sanchez was fired as coach at the end of last month.
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| Panda cubs enjoy apples at the Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, yesterday. The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species and is fou nd only in China. An estimated 1,600 pandas live in nature reserves in Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces. Panda together with the Tibetan antelope, the swallow, fish and the sacred flame of the Olympics are represented as the five mascots for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which open on August 8. - Alfred Cheng Jin |
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| Airline loses flights in 'no arrivals' scandal
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| BY Lydia Chen and Wu Die 2008-4-18 |
| CHINA'S top aviation authority will suspend part of China Eastern Airlines' operation in Yunnan Province after 21 of its flights returned to their departure point early this month.
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| Many Western media don't understand China
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WHEN some Western media gave an exaggerated account of the disturbance against Beijing Olympic torch relay by "Tibet independence" separatists last week, French entrepreneur Jorge Mora said he was "very very disappointed"...
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| War a disaster for US economy and the world
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SOME say there are two issues in the coming American elections: the Iraq war and the economy.
On days when the war seems to be going better than expected, and the economy worse, the economy eclipses the war; but...
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Classic fiction
Shanghai Daily would like to publish short stories by some of the best-known writers in the history of Western literature.
The fiction, by authors of the caliber of Charles Dickens and Mark Twain, is timeless. Each short story would be between 2,800 and 3,500 words. We have decided to let you, the reader, decide whether we go ahead with the plan.
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