Coffee house chain Starbucks has started to offer strawless cups and paper straws instead of plastic straws in almost 1,000 stores in Shanghai and Shenzhen.

咖啡连锁店星巴克在上海和深圳的近1000家门店开始提供无吸管的杯子和纸质吸管，用来代替塑料吸管。

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She started school in Shanghai and finished her education in Beijing.

她开始在上海读书，后来转到北京学习，直到中学毕业。

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Over 500 prospective volunteers for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo started their first interviews Sunday, 80% of them still in college.

20日，中国2010年上海世博会首批志愿者面试开始，500多名申请人参加面试，约80%为高校学生。

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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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He came to Shanghai four years ago and started a gallery called ShanghArt.

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All that we have seen since, from entry into the World Trade Organization to Chinese-made toys at Wal-Mart to Louis Vuitton boutiques in Shanghai to the Beijing Olympics, started with that bit of ping-pong diplomacy.

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