And Hao added, hotel owners should put disposable slippers in the rooms.

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Hao studied Puccini's texts and the opera for about a month.

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Funds like the iShares China 25 Index Fund (FXI) and Guggenheim China Small Cap Index ETF (HAO) are better bets here.

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Seow Lai Hao, 58, runs Chai Ho Satay, a hawker stall selling grilled chicken and pork satay sticks.

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Fourteen years (from 1987 to 2001) in the life of Yu Hong (Lei Hao), a soulful girl who leaves the provinces, goes to university in Beijing, and carries on a passionate affair with a handsome student, Zhou Wei (Guo Xiaodong), and many other men.

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