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CHINA DAILY - Wednesday July 2,2008
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The team that developed Shenzhou VII, China's third manned spacecraft, will begin the final test at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Gansu province in a few days.
Nation
The recent changes to China's visa policy is aimed at ensuring a safe environment for the Olympics and not to limit foreign visitors, a senior Foreign Ministry official said.
China Scene
Ai Ai, a 30-year-old gorilla living in Qinling Wildlife Park in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, holds her 2-month-old offspring wherever she goes, carefully cradling the little gorilla in her arms.
Beijing 2008
Having a "green lung" in the center of Beijing was difficult to imagine a few years ago. But the opening of the huge Olympic Forest Park just north of the Bird's Nest stadium after the Games will be just that.
Special Supplement
Calligraphers from across the world gathered at the Beijing Working People's Culture Palace in Beijing on June 28 to celebrate the upcoming Olympic Games with their masterpieces.
Comment
In a historic move, the Japanese Maritime Self-defense Force (SDF) destroyer Sazanami arrived at the Chinese southern port of Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, in late June.
Opinion
Beset by so many agonizing problems, the Earth is screaming for help. Amid increasingly disturbing signs of the planet's woes, leaders from the Group of Eight countries will gather in the Lake Toyako resort in Hokkaido next week for their annual summit.
International
Hours before their contract with film and TV performers was due to expire, Hollywood studios on Monday capped weeks of stalemated labor talks by presenting the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) a "final offer."
International
Happiness has been on the rise around the world in recent years, a new survey finds.
Business
The recent price rise of refined oil products cannot fully offset domestic refiners' losses caused by surging crude prices, say industry insiders.
Business
Muhtar Kent may be the only chief executive officer of Coca-Cola Co to benefit from an anemic US economy and record oil prices.
Life
The Olympic opening ceremony is in rehearsal. But until it is unveiled in the evening of August 8, the extravaganza will remain a State secret, known to only those involved.
Olympics
VILNIUS, Lithuania: When Virgilijus Alekna is not acting as a bodyguard to Lithuania's former president, he is training to win a third Olympic discus title in Beijing.
Sports
LONDON: Jelena Jankovic and Svetlana Kuznetsova joined the Wimbledon scrapheap on Monday when the second week began with more shocks and the Williams sisters steaming headlong toward a third family final.
Special Supplement
The authorities of Yinchuan, capital of the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in northwest China, "throw open their arms" to welcome investment, said Deputy Mayor Li Weidong.
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