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...Teahouse, tel: (86-21) 6445 4625. Inspired by Ming-dynasty architecture, the city's finest tea parlor is a classy joint where executives come to impress clients and contacts with China's most exclusive brews. Its imposing wooden gateway (200 years old and transported to Shanghai from culturally rich Shanxi province) is the prelude to an interior of stone reliefs and bare brickwork infused with plenty of upscale nostalgia...
Madam Gu, as Dalio calls her, helped Dalio set up the Chinese side of the organization, introducing him to the China Charity Federation, orphanages in Tianjin and Shanxi and children’s hospitals in Beijing...
...Rather aptly, it has no front signage. But it is impossible to miss the tree-fronted, single-story structure if you find its neighbor Nuage, tel: (86-10) 6402 1663. Both bars were conceived by the scene's godfather, 34-year-old Bai Feng. The ex-concert cellist from Shanxi province says they came about unintentionally when he rented a house in the district. "When friends visited they really liked the setting. I then had the idea to turn [the house] into the No Name bar and café," says...
...avoiding expensive medical care, peasants simply don't believe the government when it promises to treat them for free. With little cash or access to affordable conventional medicines, some have resorted to ancient remedies. Villagers living near the city of Xizhou, one of the poorest areas of SARS-hit Shanxi province, spent the night of May 6 lighting firecrackers to scare the disease away. Days later, the Worker's Daily criticized the practice, saying "the spread of superstition is another type of epidemic" that will "disturb and injure the people." What's really injuring rural people, though, is the lack...
...with 20 deaths, it's the first place outside Asia to be put on a do-not-visit list issued by the World Health Organization (WHO)--a public humiliation that infuriated Toronto residents. ("I've never been so angry in my whole life," declared Mayor Mel Lastman.) Beijing and Shanxi province also joined the list last week; Hong Kong and Guangdong province, where the outbreak began, have been on it for weeks...