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Expats adapt to Xmas in China 

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2011-12-24

MORE and more foreign students are earning their degrees in China, hoping to be part of China's advancement in the globalized world. One often overloo...

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'China's Got Talent' scrapes bottom of barrel 

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2011-12-25

'CHINA'S Got Talent' may be No. 1 in Shanghai and No. 2 in China but it's off the charts when it comes to weird, tacky, fake and gross - like eating live loaches. Still, the finals will be a lot of laughs. Xu Wei reports....

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French video artist tackles China 

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2011-12-25

IN 1972 Italian modernist director Michelangelo Antonioni released "Chung Kuo" (China), a long documentary about everyday life in China during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76). Some Westerners received their first...

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Endless summer and empty pool 

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2011-12-25

IT'S a scene from a warm summer afternoon - there's a swimming pool, a table-tennis table, video monitors, an open microphone and an electric guitar. It looks perfect, except there's no water in this concrete swimming...

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Looking to score more enthusiastic fans 

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2011-12-25

WHILE handball isn't a widely played sport in China, a small group of passionate players, both expat and Chinese, are trying to spread awareness of the game and have fun while doing it. Alex Linder takes to the court. ...

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Waltzes and marches for New Year's shows 

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2011-12-25

THE New Year's concert is becoming a staple in Shanghai. The ORF (Austrian Radio and Television) Radio Symphony Orchestra of Vienna will make its Shanghai debut on Thursday with an atypical holiday concert that...

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Orchestra to play 'awe-inspiring' folk songs 

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2011-12-25

THE beautiful and romantic melodies of Russian folk songs have impressed many generations of Chinese people. Most of the songs have Chinese translations and some Chinese people have even grown up hearing and performing...

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Master of '3 perfections' 

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2011-12-25

MANY Western painters incorporate Oriental elements into their works and some are also familiar with Eastern culture, but few have devoted years to gradually mastering the classical "Three Perfections" - poetry, ink-wash...

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Shanghai oozes from band's pores 

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2011-12-24

LAST Friday, Yuyintang buzzed with the excitement of the World Cup, Olympics, or an equivalently festive athletic contest. But sport was not on people's minds, "Sports," the new album by post-rock band Duck Fight...

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King cobbler with a red sole 

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2011-12-23

CHRISTIAN Louboutin's sumptuous, red-soled, super-stilettoes have inflamed the hearts of celebrities and become the objects of desire for women - and men - the world over. They are outrageous and fanciful, many...

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Lady Gaga 'master of the art of fame' and AP Entertainer of 2011 

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2011-12-23

YOU might say that Lady Gaga's year really began in an egg. That's how she arrived at the Grammys in February, encased in a large, translucent pod carried by scantily clad dancers. When she "hatched" onstage,...

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Author looks to solve big mysteries 

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2011-12-23

SPANISH writer Javier Sierra has at least one thing in common with famed inventor and artist Leonardo da Vinci in that he has a sense of unquenchable curiosity and the will to challenge widely accepted ideas. "I...

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Great reads from past year 

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2011-12-23

TAKE a look at the top English language books in 2011 that had people talking. They range from daring novels and intellectual arguments to deeply moving memoirs. FICTION AND POETRY 1.THE ANGEL ESMERALDA: Nine...

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Owls returned to the wild 

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2011-12-23

ON an overcast day near the seaside of rural Fengxian District, a grass owl hesitated for a few seconds after the box it was put in opened. He then jumped onto the ground to adapt to the "new environment" for a few...

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Woe when your lover is abroad 

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2011-12-21

IF it's difficult to manage long-distance love and marriage in China, it's a lot harder if one person is overseas. Just hopping on a plane to sort out misunderstandings isn't an option. Cindy Cheng, a 27-year-old...

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Twin-city love and wedlock 

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2011-12-21

CHINA'S population is more mobile than ever and that means more married couples live apart as "twin-city couples" facing special problems depicted in a popular TV drama "Twin-city Life." Zhang Qian tunes in. When...

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Choosing right fruits for winter 

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2011-12-20

TRADITIONAL Chinese medicine warns against eating too much yin (cold energy) fruit and vegetables in winter lest they aggravate "pathogenic cold," so many people cut back on fruits and vegetables in the cold season. ...

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Nutritionists turn sour on apple juice 

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2011-12-20

IT'S true - apple juice can pose a risk to your health. But not necessarily from the trace amounts of arsenic that people are arguing about. Despite the US government's consideration of new limits on arsenic,...

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Florida nuclear plant nurtures crocodiles 

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2011-12-20

AN unexpected but fruitful relationship has blossomed between two potent forces in the swamps of South Florida: the American crocodile and a nuclear power plant. The reptile has made it off the endangered species...

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Answering 100,000 whys 

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2011-12-20

ONCE children asked why the sky is blue. Today Chinese children ask if time travel is possible and what are toxic food additives. A new set of science books has answers, reports Yao Minji. German mathematician...