Tuesday, October 04, 2005

News

Sizzling Shanghai: Everybody had warned me to expect huge changes in Shanghai, and I had read enough about this economic showcase of the new China to believe that I was prepared for what I'd see. But I was wrong. To begin with, there's the sheer volume of recently erected skyscrapers stretching for miles in every direction in this city of 17 million people.

Shenzhen, Guangzhou Most Inconvenient Cities to Go to the Restroom: Shenzhen and Guangzhou are considered to be the most inconvenient cities for people to go to the restroom, according to a survey released in September by the Horizon Group (HG), a leading firm in professional research and management consulting in China.

Women in China Embrace Divorce as Stigma Eases: In this lush, affluent region where adultery is so ingrained that wealthy businessmen keep their lovers in "concubine villages," infidelity is often tolerated in a marriage. But Cai Shaohong could not put up with it.


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