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CHINA DAILY - Friday July 25,2008
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Local government and Communist Party of China (CPC) officials can be sacked from their posts or expelled from the CPC for their poor handling of public grievances.
All for just a ticket
Many people waiting in a queue to buy tickets for the Olympic Games take a nap early yesterday morning, a full day before the tickets go on sale, at a Games venue in Beijing. They will be the last batch of tickets for next month's Games.  Reuters
Nation
A ban on foreign leprosy sufferers and their relatives entering China was lifted on Sunday, in a bid to end discrimination against them, a quarantine official said yesterday.
China Scene
True-life salon romance shot and serialized
Beijing 2008
People who failed to get tickets for Olympic events at the Bird's Nest can look forward to getting inside the iconic venue after the Games, as it was announced it will become a sports and entertainment venue.
Insight
The number of people in the country reading books has risen from two years earlier, reversing a decade-long decline, a biennial nationwide survey has found.
Comment
The International Criminal Court (ICC) recently charged Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir with genocide and crimes against humanity and thus once again stirred up a controversy over issues of international law and international morality, which need to be discussed seriously.
International
A mistress, a bogus family he said he left in the US, and regular visits to a bar called "The Madhouse" where he sipped wine below a picture of himself in his heyday - these are among the details that have emerged about Radovan Karadzic's secret life.
International
Israelis and Palestinians were in rare agreement after US presidential hopeful Barack Obama sped through an event-packed schedule: He makes a positive impression and says the things they want to hear, but his real audience is back home in America.
Business
The government has approved the World Bank's $5.44 billion lending agenda for China for 2009-11 fiscal year, according to the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
Life
The Olympic organizing committee has just let the cat out of the bag by revealing how fireworks will be used during the opening ceremony. We now know they can display the five rings in the sky, since a fireworks rehearsal is pretty hard to keep hush-hush.
Olympics
Yang Wei has built up an aura of invincibility but it will count for nothing if he does not win the all-around Olympic gold medal in front of his home fans at next month's Beijing Games.
Sports
With only two weeks to go before the Olympics Opening Ceremony, the suspense over who will win the first Olympic medal and in which event has gripped athletes, coaches and fans alike, prompting wild predictions and speculation.