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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s School of Design (SD) has set up the world's first image database on the lifestyle of middle-class Chinese families after gathering massive data on their living environment and analysing their expectations for modern life.

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In determining whether or not the contract with the renewal fee clause infringed the Consumer Contract Act, Article 10, the court continued to rule that it did not infringe and that it was valid up to the decision that was made by the Otsu District Court on March 27, 2009.

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For eleven years straight, from 1998 on, the suicide rate in Japan has exceeded 30,000 per year, and this year shows no signs of letting up. Young people do not make up a large number of these suicides by any means, but as youth is a period with a low mortality rate in general, suicide is becoming a leading cause of death among them.

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Archaeology values actual historical facts as a first priority, rather than what is often referred to as the implied truth and meaning of history. Ruins and relics, also known as buried cultural properties, are almost the only hard evidence that reveals such historical facts.

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The Economic Planning Unit of Prime Minister’s Department will provide assistance for Halal Products and Research Institute of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) to build a Halal Analysis Laboratory during the first quarter of 2010.

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