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Li Xing

High time for the nation to enforce the law

My friends and I celebrated International Women's Day on Monday by going to dinner at a restaurant near our office. While we were still looking at the menu, we suddenly found ourselves surrounded by cigarette smoke. More than a dozen men had just taken their seats at nearby tables and immediately lit up.
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Chen Weihua

Don't miss the forest for the trees

I happened to be in Honolulu in 1993 when Hawaii tried to become the first state in the United States to legalize same-sex marriage. Even the Crossroad Church came out to pledge its support.
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Alexis Hooi

Ensuring food safety

Picking the right souvenir to bring back from China is always a tough decision when I head home for work or vacation. Especially when Chinese foodstuff has become one of the least popular gifts among my family and friends.
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You Nuo

Sustainable cities key to growth

Some social reform champions are calling for the immediate abolition of the hukou system, or the notorious household registration system that was designed to block rural-urban migration half a century ago. 
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Li Xing

Equality for women still far behind

"Equal rights, equal opportunities, progress for all" is the theme for the celebration of International Women's Day at the United Nations in New York on Wednesday.
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Zhu Yuan

The looming threat of high home prices

Everybody is talking about housing prices, which have skyrocketed in recent years. In major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, it is impossible for a white-collar worker to purchase a decent home even after saving all of his or her earnings over a lifetime.
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Chen Weihua

The value of shoveling the snow

New York City experienced its largest snowfall in four years last Thursday night. On Friday morning, the street outside my apartment was filled with people shoveling snow, but only from the sidewalk outside their homes.
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Zhu Qiwen

It will be another golden decade if ...

Three decades of nearly double-digit growth have made China into a unique economic miracle. Will it be able to continue its long-term growth story into the new decade?
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Hong Liang

Eat, drink less and enjoy life to the fullest

The high moment of a family dinner at my home when I was a kid was the wheeling out of the fruit trolley at the end of the meal. Having some fruit after dinner, considered good for digestion, was something I had been doing routinely long after I became an adult and began raising my own family.
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Op Rana

Junk it on TV shows and movies

For years, we have known companies pay to have their products displayed in TV programs and films. There may be nothing wrong with that in today's world of cut-throat business and profit. But do such product placements influence children's food preferences?
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Chen Weihua

A heavy heart in the Year of the Tiger

It was fun to wine and dine with friends and relatives over the Chinese New Year holidays, but small talks often ended in heavy hearts.
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Liu Shinan

Rise of wages for migrant workers a must

As a man who has many relatives in rural areas, I was delighted at the news about the recent shortage of laborers in China's most developed coastal regions - the Yangtze delta and Pearl River delta.
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Alexis Hooi

A capital move to showcase Chinese culture

When I visited Jiayuguan city of Gansu province last summer, I was pleasantly surprised to find a Great Wall Museum outside the historical fort that marked the western frontier of the empire in ancient times.
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Debate

High housing price vs. low income

China’s housing price has become one of the hottest topics during the two sessions (NPC and CPPCC), as most ordinary Chinese people find it more and more difficult to buy a flat in cities. Is it because housing price is too high or people’s incomes too low?

Reports

China says water pollution double official figure

A new Chinese government survey of the country's environmental problems has shown water pollution levels in 2007 were more than twice the government's official estimate, largely because agricultural waste was ignored.

Newsmakers

Tennis-Li and Zheng, China's chalk and cheese vanguard

Baidu founder rules China's Web with pragmatism

Mo is no Mo'

In an unending search for spirituality

My pen pal Han Han

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From the Readers

For lack of economic logic

For lack of economic logic

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