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CHINA DAILY - Wednesday September 3,2008
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BANGKOK: The Thai government yesterday declared a state of emergency in Bangkok to restore order after a person was killed and 43 injured in overnight clashes between opponents and supporters of the government.
Nation
WENCHUAN: Hao Wei, an engineer with the Sichuan Road & Construction Group (SRCG), was a happy man yesterday, as he watched the final section of the Dujiangyan-Wenchuan highway reopen to traffic.
China Scene
Gold, silver, bronze + iron, aluminium, tin and lead?
Paralympics
The heightened security witnessed in Beijing during the Olympics will remain for the duration of the Paralympics, the city's public security bureau said yesterday.
Insight
Last February, 58 year-old pig farmer Xie Pandi was told by local authorities in Guangyi County of suburban Wuxi that she could no longer raise pigs as she had done for the past 20 years - for environmental reasons.
Comment
In the 29th Olympics in Beijing, China outnumbered the United States by snatching more than 10 percent of the total gold medals. That could serve as a persuasive testimony that the country has pushed itself to the list of the world's top sports powers. Compared with its marvelous sports performance, China, however, has achieved far less recognition in science. It has never won a Nobel Prize, a top prize gauging one's contribution to the world in a certain realm, still far behind Britain, Germany and Japan, not to mention the US.
Opinion
Lately a stream of news reports has been floating around saying the United States and Iraq will soon sign an agreement on US military pullout and long-term political, economic and security relations between the two countries.
International
Google Inc yesterday introduced a new Web browser designed to more quickly handle video-rich or other complex Web programs, posing a challenge to browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics.
International
Hurricane Gustav didn't barrel ashore in the US as the devastating terror everyone feared, leaving some of the 2 million people who evacuated second-guessing their decision to flee.
Business
It's too soon for government measures to spur the economy, with momentum likely to remain strong despite the recent slowdown, economists said.
Business
Hurricane Gustav may trigger insurance claims as high as $10 billion after lashing Louisiana, according to firms that specialize in catastrophe estimates, making it potentially the fourth-highest total for a US storm.
Life
Hong Kong director Yu Lik-wai's Plastic City (Dang Kou), which tells the story of a Chinese counterfeiting gang in Brazil, is competing for the Golden Lion at the 65th Venice Film Festival, which ends this Saturday.
Sports
There was a reason why some Chinese athletes were obsessed with Hollywood blockbuster Kungfu Panda in the run-up to the Olympic Games. First, it was good fun. Second, they were thinking about some of the rare wushu moves in the film.
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