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CHINA DAILY - Monday June 30,2008
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XI'AN: Thirteen government officials have been punished and a man arrested for presenting false evidence to prove the highly endangered South China tiger existed in the wild.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice buys a bottle of water at a store in a resettlement camp during her visit to quake-hit Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, yesterday. Yi Gang
Nation
Chinese health authorities plan to create a national influenza-monitoring system to contain the spread of the disease, which kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide every year, they said at the 2008 International Forum on Prevention and Control Policy of Flu in Beijing over the weekend.
Comment
After hard negotiations, China and Japan have reached an agreement to jointly explore part of the gas deposits in the East China Sea, thanks to the efforts of consolidating bilateral ties between them.
China Scene
The first Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) ship to visit China left Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, on Saturday after a five-day stay at the headquarters of the South China Sea Fleet.
Life
Ma Bingchao, 25, had never before been the target of ire as she was now, when villagers gathered closely about her, asking pointed questions about government grain subsidies. The new college graduate, working as a village official in Xiangying village in the Yanqing district of Beijing, forced herself not to feel intimidated, and hear out the aggrieved locals.
Olympics
EUGENE, Oregon: Tyson Gay served notice to Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell that he is a world-record threat, becoming the third-fastest runner in 100m history here on Saturday even after slowing before the finish.
Sports
LONDON: China's Zheng Jie admitted even she had been stunned by the ease of her sensational victory over top seed Ana Ivanovic at Wimbledon.