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CHINA DAILY - Wednesday July 9,2008
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RUSUTSU, Japan: The world's top economic powers yesterday agreed to halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Nation
The Foreign Ministry yesterday dismissed media reports claiming that authorities in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region demolished a mosque that refused to show its support for the Beijing Olympic Games.
China Scene
Professor Xu Dianqing of Peking University has honored his promise to take out an ad in the Southern Metropolis Daily apologizing for his bullish bet on the Shenzhen property market of a year ago, the Beijing Youth Daily reported yesterday.
Beijing 2008
To Richard Palfreyman, press chief of the 2000 Sydney Games, media advisor to the 2004 Athens Games and MPC manager of the 2006 Turin Winter Games, the Main Press Center (MPC) where accredited journalists work during the Games, is familiar territory.
Insight
Yang Ping is the chief of the local Communist Party of China (CPC) discipline inspection commission in Zhuzhou, Hunan province.
Comment
Environmental issues such as climate change have been the main theme of almost every global or regional high-level international meeting in recent years. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its fourth report in November 2007 that climate change is becoming a major threat to the eco-environment and the human society's sustainable development.
Opinion
When Thomas Friedman published his bestseller The World Is Flat in 2005, it portrayed a new world of global markets where historical, regional and geographical divisions are becoming increasingly irrelevant.
International
Every Wednesday night, Bruce Johnson dutifully puts his garbage and recycling on the curb for pickup, and every week he fumes as small trucks idle in front of his home and strangers dig through his bins stealing trash they aim to turn into treasure.
International
Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) countries and the first ladies made wishes on Monday in line with the Japanese tradition on Tanabata, or the Star Festival, by writing them down on pieces of paper hung out on bamboo shrubs.
Business
Shanxi province, which produces one-fourth of China's coal, has witnessed approximately 5,000 mW of power shortages, the highest level recorded in recent years.
Business
Microsoft Corp said it would be willing to reopen talks to buy all or part of Yahoo Inc, but only if a new Yahoo board is elected - a big boost for financier Carl Icahn's board slate.
Life
Vocalist Ding Wu struts across the stage, sporting his signature tight pants and loose T-shirt. The 46-year-old singer now wears his hair cropped closely around his face.
Olympics
STOCKHOLM: Swedish golden girl Carolina Kluft is determined to bag two gold medals at the Beijing Olympics after renouncing the defense of her heptathlon crown due to lack of motivation.
Sports
The number 8 is not a lucky for Zhao Ruirui. China's towering spiker was wearing the normally auspicious number when she seriously injured herself four years ago.
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