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CHINA DAILY - Friday August 29,2008
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DUSHANBE: Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) leaders yesterday agreed that attempts to solve a problem through use of force would never work, and instead it would hinder a comprehensive settlement.
A journey begins
Hearing- and speech-impaired stage presenter Jiang Xintian (right) hands over the Paralympic torch to former Paralympian Jin Jing in Beijing yesterday. The 2008 Paralympic Games torch was lit at the Temple of Heaven, from where it started its eight-day relay. Yang Shizhong
China Scene
Cat balks at giving up trophies for falcon fodder
Insight
For more than three decades, Kang Zhixiang has worried over caring for his disabled son. Although he is now 36, Kang Zheng is an epileptic who requires constant care from his parents.
Comment
According to some European and American analysts, nations of the world have been regrouped into a new "three-world fixture": developed countries have turned into financial powers while developing nations have become manufacturing powers and exporting powers of energy and materials resources.
Opinion
The world economy is being reshaped by new technologies, services, and trading relationships. Much of this dynamism is fuelled by developing-world nation-states like Brazil, India, and China of course.
Special Supplement
The Liaoning provincial government recently released a development plan for a two-city integration strategy, reportedly the first of its kind in the country.
Business
China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC), the country's third largest oil producer, plans to invest 45 billion yuan to expand its new Huizhou oil refinery project in the southern Guangdong province, which is expected to come onstream this October.