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Helping 'old boys and girls' wins model worker award

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

IT is often tiring helping elderly people, but Deng Guixiang does it and won trust from her "old boys and girls" in the Qingwei Neighborhood in Meilong Town ahead of anyone else. The 34-year-old migrant worker...

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Pujiang book puts network on the map

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

ZHOU Shuming never imagined that he could hold a book signing activity for his "Selected Folk Nursery Rhymes in Pudong" at the same time as China celebrated its National Day. The activity was staged on Yandang...

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Community reacts to ferry proposal

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

THE ferry in Shanghai has recently become a hot topic among citizens. The right to decide whether the ferry system should be built in Minhang District is, to a large extent, in everyone's hands. Recently Minhang...

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Wheelchair prototype offers 'mod cons' to the disabled

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

AN intelligent wheelchair will make its debut in the World Expo 2010 Shanghai pavilion "Expo 2010 Life & Sunshine" for disabled people. This high-tech product can communicate with the owner and follow his/her orders....

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Aging couple finds new life in donating to school

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

IN Meilong Town, there's a pair of old people who have sold one of their houses to build up a Hope Primary School. And that's not all. They've decided to donate their other houses to another school after they...

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New museum contains rare history items

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

THE Minhang History Museum will be opened to the public by the end of this year in Chunshen Cultural Square. It includes ancient art pieces by celebrities in history, the personal written instructions of emperors...

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Work starts on civil defense hospital

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

CONSTRUCTION started recently on Minhang District's Civil Defense Emergency Hospital. This underground facility on Husong Road will support ordinary hospitals during disasters, accidents or wars. It will provide...

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Expo relying on district printing houses to make range of products

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

DELICATE Expo brochures, Expo pavilion display boards, colorful paper cups and lunch boxes in Expo restaurants, gift packages at Expo souvenir shops - all these printed items could come from printing houses in Minhang...

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New services added to redecorated library

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

REDECORATION of Minhang Library will finish by the end of this year and reopen to the public on January 1, 2010. Readers will then be able to borrow or return books at the self-service terminal. To borrow a book,...

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New center for aged needing care

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

A NEW seniors' home in Xinzhuang Town with capacity for 400 people opened recently. There are already 50 on the first roll call. The facility offers a service to seniors who cannot take care of themselves. People...

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A/H1N1, flu vaccination program gets underway

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

THE vaccination work of A/H1N1 has already begun in Minhang District and will last to the end of this year. General flu innoculations will last from mid November to next February. The A/H1N1 vaccination mainly...

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Choristers ring in the fall in city theater

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

THE Boys & Girls Choir of Harlem Alumni Ensemble, one of the best American singing ensembles, gave full voice to their skills and repertoire in Minhang last weekend. The occasion was the opening of "Golden Fall...

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Project to link dead-end major roads

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

MINHANG District will finish the connecting project on 16 dead-end roads this year and another 21 will be linked by 2011. The work will be done under a three-year plan developed by the Minhang Construction and...

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School rallies to aid sick pupil

District | Minhang
2009-10-31

WHEN a big birthday cake with 15 candles was put in the middle of the room of Class Two, Grade Three in Qibao Experimental School, a birthday song sounded out. And all the students in the room greeted birthday...

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Spring City praise for Koreans

District | Minhang
2009-10-1

TEN teenage South Korean volunteers were bathed in sweat when cleaning, weeding lawns and visiting the elderly in the community called Shanghai Spring City in the city's Meilong Township. A 79-year-old woman...