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  • Health teams battle against disease threat
  • MORE than 5,000 health workers are working to disinfect China's earthquake-hit villages, and doctors and nurses are stationed round the clock in refugee camps to try to prevent survivors from falling sick. At...
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  • Little boy's brave salute is top photo
  • "SALUTE of Life," a photograph that moved thousands of people after the earthquake, has been awarded top prize in the 9th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition. The image, captured by Yang Weihua,...
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  • CCB goes for all-rounder deal
  • CHINA Construction Bank Corp has agreed to pay 3.4 billion yuan (US$490 million) for a controlling stake in Hefei Xingtai Trust Co to expand fee-income channels. The bank will own 67 percent of the trust firm based...
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    Computers in earthquake-hit Pingwu County can once again access the Internet after technicians from Shanghai restored networks at 12:40pm today.
    Wen returns to Sichuan to direct relief work
    BY Yang Jian 2008-5-22
    PREMIER Wen Jiabao returned to Sichuan Province this afternoon and immediately headed to quake-devastated Tangjiashan Village in Beichuan County to exam the flood risk, Xinhua news agency reported. Wen arrived...

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    Metro
    Green retailing is all in the bag
    SOME local supermarkets have set the price of recyclable plastic bags from 0.1 yuan (1.4 US cents) to 0.4 yuan based on the size but still encourage customers to use environmentally friendly carriers. Suning Appliance...


    Recovery experts on way

    New homes for survivors

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    Business
    Talk of fuel price curbs to be lifted groundless
    CHINA denied yesterday it would lift curbs on fuel prices as early as next month, a day after speculation of price rises boosted oil refiners. Speculation that China will deregulate fuel and gas prices in early...


    Lenovo sees profit more than doubled

    Appliance chain seeks more outlets

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    National
    Woman ate worms to stay alive
    A WOMAN who was plucked from earthquake rubble after nine days ate worms and weeds and drank her urine to survive. Cui Changhui, 35, even persuaded colleagues trying to rescue her to leave her there and flee for...


    Health teams battle against disease threat

    Quake lakes pose a danger

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    World
    Children killed in US Iraqi air strike
    A US helicopter strike north of Baghdad killed eight civilians, including several children, an Iraqi police official said yesterday. The US military said the strike targeted al-Qaida fighters but acknowledged...


    Suicide farmer spreads his sickness

    Army sent to combat violence

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    Sport
    Liu gives thumbs up for Bird's Nest
    DEFENDING Olympic and world champion Liu Xiang declared the track "fairly good" in his first race yesterday at the Bird's Nest stadium, the 91,000-seat venue for athletics at the Beijing Olympics. The world...


    United crowned European kings

    Peng beats Bartoli to reach quarterfinals

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    Feature
    Middling midday meals for the middle classes
    ONE of the most perplexing questions faced during the daily grind is the eternal issue of lunch. While empires have risen and fallen over more pertinent questions than simply the choice of the midday meal, we, the...


    Cashing in on reel golden oldies

    Sweet music from beyond the tomb

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    Opinion
  • Bury the dead and go on with life, look into the eyes of survivors
  • ALTHOUGH one woman who had been trapped in a tunnel for nine days was rescued on Wednesday, we must acknowledge that the priority now has turned to reconstruction after the Sichuan earthquake. According to reports...


  • Flushing away old ideas about pipes and potties
  • DESPITE recent progress, more than one billion people still lack decent water supplies, and more than 2 billion go without sanitation services. But, while we often assume that the benefits of improving water and...


  • Stop knocking Western media
  • WANG Yong, I - and many others - are getting a little tired of this attacking of the Western media. Sick and tired. Firstly: MOST of the donations have come from these Western countries. Why? One reason is...


  • Moms share milk of human kindness
  • I am really touched by your article "Nursing moms share milk of human kindness'' in yesterday's Shanghai daily as my mum in Singapore had faced a rather similar situation. Both her parents died during and after...


  • US reports make 'horrible connections'
  • DEAR Wang Yong, Being a student attending the Shanghai American School I am often exposed to many Western ideals, and I was really touched by your article on Wednesday ("Don't equate China's one-child policy...


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