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Rain, gray to go away soon, allow sunshine 

Metro | Weather
2012-5-25

SHANGHAI is expected to endure another wet day or two but the weekend should be mostly dry, forecasters said yesterday. Showers should diminish today and tomorrow, and the sky is forecast to turn overcast to cloudy...

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Standard translations for TCM 

Metro | Health
2012-5-25

TRADITIONAL Chinese Medicine will have standard translations for each term to improve the spread of its theory and benefit more people around the world. A local university researcher is leading the translation...

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Car plates counted as assets with value 

Metro
2012-5-25

SHANGHAI'S car plate prices have soared so dramatically over the years that they have become valuable family assets in the eyes of the city's government watchdog that determines whether applicants are qualify for...

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Controversy laid bare as product expo makes use of sexy models 

Metro
2012-5-25

THE young Caucasian woman in a sexy bikini fully stretched her body in a giant tub where she gentled pushed the water with her fingers, stirring up waves that shone under camera lights. In front of her were male...

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Angry neighbors confront woman they accuse of killing cats for years 

Metro
2012-5-25

A local woman who was accused of abusing and slaying adopted cats for 10 years packed up and left her rented apartment yesterday after angry cat owners surrounded it. The 38-year-old woman, Zhou Ying, had to seek...

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Burned boy gets surgery 

Metro | Health
2012-5-25

A seven-year-old local boy who was seriously burned received surgery yesterday at a local hospital to fix his fingers, two of which had fused together. The surgery was needed for Zhang Hao, who will start primary school...

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Fight over defecating dog ends in slaying of man 

Metro | Crime and public security
2012-5-25

POLICE have detained a 54-year-old Shanghai man who stabbed his neighbor to death in a fight over a pet dog in a downtown area yesterday morning. The unidentified suspect allegedly attacked his neighbor about 8am...

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2 sentenced for fake coins 

Metro | Crime and public security
2012-5-25

TWO men who sold fake commemorative coins issued to mark the Year of the Dragon were sentenced yesterday for selling counterfeit currencies. The convicts, surnamed Huang and Chen, got eight months in prison and five...

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Shanghai dialect employed in hospital service 

Metro | Health
2012-5-24

SHANGHAI dialect has become an official language in Shanghai Ren'ai Hospital, apart from Chinese mandarin and English service. Local patients can speak to doctors and nurses at the reception desk and out-patient...

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Dealers of fake souvenir coins get prison terms 

Metro | Courts
2012-5-24

TWO men who sold fake souvenir coins marking the Year of Dragon were today sentenced one to eight months in prison and the other five months in detention at Shanghai Hongkou District People's Court. The court also...

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Surgery to separate boy's fire-ravaged fingers 

Metro | Health
2012-5-24

A seven-year-old Shanghai boy received a surgery today to separate his fingers which grew together after healing from a severe burn. The surgery is important for Zhang Hao who is going to school in September. The...

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Cat killer seeks refuge from angry pet owners 

Metro | Pets and animals
2012-5-24

A local woman who was accused of abusing and slaying adopted cats is seeking police protection as angry cat owners gathered outside her apartment yesterday demanding explanations. The 50 plus cat owners, most of them...

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Man stabbed to death in quarrel over pet dog 

Metro | Crime and public security
2012-5-24

SHANGHAI police are investigating the death of a man who was fatally stabbed in downtown Huangpu District this morning. The man was attacked around 8am and died of knife wounds in a house at 266 Danshui Road near...

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Yangtze Delta to bet big on coming of RVs 

Metro
2012-5-24

SOME 400 to 500 recreational vehicle campgrounds will be built in Shanghai and the other 20-plus cities in the Yangtze River Delta Region by the end of 2020, according to a tourism development plan. Tourism authorities...

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Test cheating target of new initiatives 

Metro | Education
2012-5-24

AUTHORITIES have tightened security measures to prevent cheating on the upcoming college entrance exam, which will continue to see a drop in the number of test takers. About 55,000 people in the city have applied...