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Reuters: China steeled for worse weather as holidays loom

Even though we've long put our public relations days behind us, we can't help but think what a day in the life of a PR executive at Starbucks must be like. They must all have been working overtime lately with the Seattle-based coffee company hitting the headlines like crazy lately. First it was the landmark victory against Shanghai Xingbake, then there was the trans fat issue.

Just when you thought you were all grown up and could do things on your own, your parents find a new way to interfere -- at least that might be the case for hundreds of young adults in Shanghai, whose parents are worried that they are too old to be single. Taking matchmaking to the next level was a “parent’s chat meeting,” which, according to the current print edition of the Shanghai Star, started in July to let parents try to hook up their kids -- according to some criteria of course. Can you believe that the waiting list for these monthy meetings extends until next January?