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CHINA DAILY - Thursday July 31,2008
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The collapse of the world trade talks is a "tragic failure" for the world economy in the face of global recession, Commerce Minister Chen Deming has said.
All the president's children
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev holds the hand of a child as the rest of the 50 Chinese children from earthquake-hit Sichuan province scream with delight in the Kremlin in Moscow yesterday. The children reached the All-Russia Children's Care Center in Tuapse on July 19 on their three-week convalescing tour. Medvedev invited 1,000 children from Sichuan, 184 of who are part of the present group in Russia. "It demonstrates the strategic partnership between the two countries," Medvedev said yesterday.  AP
China Scene
Games' first day bigger lure than wedding banquets
August 8, opening day of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, is not, to the disappointment of luxury hotel operators in Shanghai, a popular date for wedding banquets. Friends and relations of newly-weds would obviously stay at home and watch live broadcasts of the grand opening ceremony than celebrate nuptials.
Insight
Tang Tian, a 29-year-old executive at a US management consultant firm, is the poster girl of the burgeoning middle class in Shanghai.
Comment
One of the most frequently and extensively quoted theories on the rule of law in China is that from Aristotle. According to him, the rule of law has dual significance: the law receives universal obedience and the law obeyed by everybody is well-developed.
Opinion
Fortune magazine of the US recently published its list of the 500 biggest companies in the world in terms of market value. The latest Fortune 500 reflected three prominent changes in the political and economic structure of our world, namely the so-called natural resources nationalism, the crackling of the US-led global financial system and the rise of emerging economies.
International
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was taken to a prison cell in The Hague yesterday to face trial at a UN war crimes tribunal on charges of genocide during the 1992-95 Bosnia war.
Life
The Olympic opening ceremony did not become an extravaganza until the 1984 Los Angeles Games. However, with or without it, the festivities usually have had a theme. The 1980 Moscow Games pinpointed "Nature" as its theme, with human bodies forming a rich variety of flora. The spectacle for the 2004 Athens Games revolved around "Ocean" and "Sculpture", two words that sum up the ancient civilization of Greece more succinctly than other monikers.
Olympics
SINGAPORE: After nearly 50 years without a medal, Singapore is pinning its Olympic dreams on a China-born table tennis player who says she loves playing the piano more than her sport.
Sports
MONACO: Russian Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own women's world pole vault record on Tuesday when she cleared 5.04m at her third attempt at the Monaco Grand Prix.
Special Supplement
In the north of Hebei province, the city of Tangshan has a long, at times heartbreaking history, but today it is a modern metro area emphasizing sustainable development.