A Chinese model poses with a clothing partially made of chocolate during Chocolate Fashion Show as part of Salon du Chocolat in Shanghai, China Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010.
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Chocolate Fashion Show in Shanghai
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Mrs Clinton asks for money to build American Pavilion in Shanghai Expo
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In the hectic last week before she became secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton squeezed in a Bon Jovi benefit concert in New York, part of a frantic effort to pay off the debt from her presidential campaign. No sooner had she arrived at the State Department than Mrs. Clinton discovered she needed to start raising money all over again.
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Man barred from China lives in Japanese airport
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Another terminal man. Art imitates life or life imitates art...a sort of a reality show with political message, maybe?
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Swine Flu comes from America
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Some days ago I went to pick up J. from the airport in Shanghai. I had time, and there was nothing interesting in sight. But then I noted they had an informative cartoon rolling in the telly. To prevent the spreading of H1N1-virus, or swine flu.
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Entire New 13-Story Building Tips Over in Shanghai
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I don't think I've never read about a new building collapsing before?
This past Saturday, an entire apartment building in Shanghai collapsed. To be fair, the building was under construction and thus unoccupied, but it's still a minor miracle that there was only one fatality.
Saving Shanghai’s Jewish past, headstone by headstone
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In Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Western philanthropists and volunteers are restoring dozens of historic Jewish cemeteries. But in Shanghai, there are none to restore.
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Shanghai Sperm bank denies 'helping hand' rumor
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Shanghai Sperm Bank has been forced to issue a statement on its Website to clarify its procedures, after explicit photos circulated on the Internet, claiming to show female nurses helping men to "donate" at the sperm bank.
Read more »A rare case of 'people power' in China?
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It has been hailed elsewhere as a victory for "people power" in China.
Read more »Historic Jewish Haven In Shanghai Faces Demolition
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Part of Shanghai's Jewish history is under threat from bulldozers.
In the 1930s, Shanghai was the only place in the world to offer visa-free sanctuary to Jews fleeing Nazism — 20,000 ended up in Shanghai.
Read more »A trip to the top of Shanghai's tallest building
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Shanghai's tallest building, the Shanghai World Financial Center, is also known as the Mori building, after the Japanese building company the Mori Group. This article describes a trip to the observation platform on the 100th floor, with side comments on Japanese-Chinese relations.
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