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Sports are good economic, as well as healthy, option

SPORTS are no longer merely a means to keep people healthy, but increasingly appreciated as a means to boost the economy, given its significant contribution to consumption in Shanghai. A number of recent ...

Wan Lixin | June 12, 2025, Thursday

Whose voice is it anyway? A growing debate over AI-generated content

WHO has stolen your voice? This was the main headline of an investigative story published by a leading news agency in China on February 12. The subtitle: A look into the abuse of AI-generated voices. Xinhua ...

Wang Yong | February 25, 2025, Tuesday

A proactive governance style adapted to a village of strangers in modern times

A few years ago, I wrote an article extolling the virtues of a traditional Chinese village. A colleague, thinking otherwise, confronted me with the article, and demanded: If you find the village so charming, ...

Wan Lixin | April 1, 2024, Monday

Missed message of the recent heatwave

WE have just survived a heat spell of epic proportions, with a record 11 extremely hot (when the daily high reaches 37 degrees) days in a row, and including an all-time peak of 40.9 degrees on July 21. The ...

Wan Lixin | August 2, 2017, Wednesday

Forum explores role of people-to-people diplomacy in promoting Sino-US relations

RESEARCHERS and officials exchanged their views on the role of people-to-people diplomacy in promoting Sino-American relations at a recent forum in Shanghai. The forum, “People-to-People Diplomacy and ...

Wan Lixin | July 26, 2017, Wednesday

On Western ingenuity in telling a good story

BY Sunday, for five days in a row, the daily high had exceeded 37 degrees centigrade. But the sweltering heat in no way deters the long lines at one of the Shanghai Museum south gates, as I have been ...

Wan Lixin | July 19, 2017, Wednesday

East or West, a better life is dream for all

EDITOR’S note: Award-winning American diplomat and scholar Dr. Patrick Mendis has just completed visiting all the provinces of China as a Confucius Fellow and had recently interviewed with Shanghai Daily ...

Wang Yong | June 30, 2017, Friday

Chance encounter prompts musings about conscientious ways to act for a better world

“ARE you a regular customer here?” A 30ish lady asked me with a broad smile as soon as I sat at a table next to hers in a small eatery in Yangzhou, my hometown, less than 300 kilometers from Shanghai, ...

Wang Yong | February 6, 2015, Friday

Economist: Challenges facing China’s slowing economy require savvy policies

EDITOR’S note: On the sidelines of a recent forum held by Fudan University’s School of Management, Ha Jiming, acclaimed economist and managing director of private wealth management in the investment management ...

Ni Tao | January 29, 2015, Thursday

Moralist attacks on ‘phubbers’ fail to recall we have always found paths to distraction

A young colleague told me on Tuesday that he would write an article to criticize phubbers — those who lower their heads and bend their necks to play mobile phones or tablets — often neglecting what happens...

Wang Yong | January 23, 2015, Friday

The way of water

Wang Yong Opinion editor

Whose voice is it anyway? A growing debate over AI-generated content

One man's meat

Wan Lixin Opinion deputy editor

Sports are good economic, as well as healthy, option

Woodpecker at work

Ni Tao Opinion writer

Pragmatism trumps ego: Will SAIC’s bold new alliance with Huawei tick?


 

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