The killing of birds at the Huhuai market in Shanghai started Thursday night after the city's agricultural committee ordered it in a notice also posted on its website.

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Much of the time, though, Clinton and his family were touring, gazing at the fabulous terra-cotta army of Xian, the Great Wall, the neon-lit Shanghai Bund at night, the ethereal karst mountains of Guilin and the towering tangle of Hong Kong's skyscrapers.

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Zhou Wei Hui, who, like Cher or Madonna, uses only her first name, claims to represent the 1970s generation, but one cannot but wonder how many Shanghai women have actually had sex with Germans in night-club toilets.

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