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CANCER and its treatment in China is influenced by air pollution, poverty and a fledgling medical insurance system. The same type of cancer shows different characteristics in the East and the West, the Health News reported yesterday, the World Cancer Day. Treatments also vary due to social...

THE owner of a local hotpot restaurant is on trial for using recycled oil from waste hotpot soups, the Huangpu District People's Court heard yesterday. Zheng Pin, 38, the owner of Fula Hotpot Restaurant in downtown Yandang Road, and her nephew, who is a cook, are both in the dock for...

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SHANGHAI'S chemical factories and power plants took emergency measures yesterday to reduce the heavy air pollution that has covered the city this week. Forecasters said yesterday that the air pollution haze likely will linger for another four to five days. At 8am yesterday, the city...

A luxury apartment in Shanghai or Beijing could cost more than 130 times the annual income of an ordinary wage earner in China, according to 21cbh.com, citing a report released by a US online property research company. It's an indication that home prices in China have reached a "dangerous...

FASHION designer Vera Wang has sparked controversy with a plan to charge brides-to-be 3,000 yuan (US$482) to try on dresses at her new store in Shanghai. Wang's first flagship bridal shop in China will be the only one of her stores across the world to ask for a non-refundable deposit when it...

SHANGHAI car plate prices struck a bullish note at the first auction this year yesterday, surpassing the 70,000 yuan (US$11,263) benchmark for the first time. In the seventh consecutive month of hitting a record high, the lowest winning bid for a Shanghai car plate shot up to 75,000 yuan at...

China's economy expanded 7.8 percent in 2012, the slowest pace in 13 years, but it gained 7.9 percent in the October-December period, the first pickup in eight quarters. The overall yearly rate was higher than the government target of 7.5 percent, with output hitting 51.93 trillion yuan...

A liquor sale person is selling his liver to make a livelihoood so he has no choice but to drink. Similarly for KTV mei mei who traded more than their liver ... For most, what you said is really true. Drink in moderation and enjoy the high. Getting drunk is meaningless.

HOUSE prices continued to rise in a growing number of Chinese cities in December, the National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday. Excluding government-funded affordable housing, prices rose in 54 of the 70 cities tracked by the bureau, compared with 53 in November and 35 in October. Prices...

LUXURY liquor and expensive watches lost their allure as gifts among China's super rich following government crackdowns on corruption and the lavish lifestyles of some officials, according to a Hurun survey. The country's premium liquor brand, Moutai, dropped out of the top 10 preferred...

A 22-year-old man who tried to save his mother, also a pimp, from police arrest was sentenced to four months in detention for injuring an officer, the Hongkou District People's Court ruled today. Li Jianxin, a Hubei Province native, didn't hire a lawyer for his trial today because "it is...

AN elderly rubbish collector found the bodies of twin infant boys in the ruins of a house in Baoshan District nearly a week ago, today's Oriental Morning Post reported. The 80-year-old woman was picking recyclable wastes in the ruins when she saw a plastic bag with a black knit sweater...

Hi, I tried to post a new thread in the International News folder. The thread is called "Pampered young adults blamed for rise in divorce". http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?139801-Pampered-young-adults-blamed-for-rise-in-divorce The posting seems to have some problem. It took...

DIVORCE in Shanghai surged by 13 percent last year, the largest increase in recent years, which experts said likely was caused by increasing instability among young people's marriages. A total of 44,364 couples with at least one Shanghainese partner divorced in 2012, up more than 5,100 from...

BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese yuan will not see any sharp rises in 2013 due to the country's dwindling trade surplus but small gains with more two-way fluctuations will further stabilize the economy, analysts predicted. The yuan's exchange rate experienced roller-coaster-style...

Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice, official media said at the weekend. Since late November the country has shivered at an average of minus 3.8 degrees Celsius, 1.3 degrees colder than...

THE city's consumer rights protection watchdog is reminding people to disinfect drinking water dispensers more regularly after it found over 80 percent of 30 machines tested were contaminated with excessive bacteria. A total of 25 water dispensers were found to contain excessive level of CFU...

Most young women in China would prefer to date men 10 years older than themselves, a nationwide survey has found. They told researchers they preferred older men because they were more attractive, wealthier and better able to take care of them. According to the survey of 98,000 men and...

CHICKEN from the Shandong Liuhe Group, supplier of the "instant chicken" highlighted in a CCTV investigation, is still being sold in some supermarkets in Shanghai. The city's food and drug authorities said there had been no order, so far, to pull it from the shelves. An investigation is under...