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CHINA DAILY - Tuesday October 28,2008
MAIN SECTION
Stock markets on the Chinese mainland yesterday joined the free fall worldwide by hitting a new low in 25 months as fears of a global economic recession continued to spook investors.
Nation
An independent team should be set up to ensure the law on environmental impact assessments is properly enforced, a senior legislator said yesterday.
Nation
Eight security guards employed by a forestry company were arrested on Thursday night following a clash with villagers in Jiangxi province, police said yesterday.
China Scene
Centenarian a die-hard Yao Ming and sports fan
Insight
The central leadership has promised longer-term land use rights and very tight land acquisition regulation to farmers as part of its rural reform. The proposals, still to be written into law, carry forward China's comprehensive land reform that began in the late 1970s with the dismantling of the commune system.
Comment
On the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the reform and opening-up policy in 1978, the third Plenary Session of the 17th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, which concluded on Oct 12, passed a resolution on rural reform and development, outlining the country's current rural situation and mapping out rural development in the coming years.
Opinion
Before 1951, 92 percent of the population of Tibet was illiterate. That proportion is now 44 percent. A report published this year by the Dalai Lama's Dharamsala-based "government-in-exile" and titled "Environment and Development in Tibet: A Crucial Issue" (available on its website) seeks to perpetuate the myth that Tibetans are fast becoming a minority in their homeland as a result of a policy of Han settlement in Tibet. In fact, of the Tibet autonomous region (TAR) population of 2.8 million, Tibetans account for 92 percent, other ethnic minorities for around 2 percent, and Han a little under 6 percent.
International
Backers of extreme technologies to curb global warming advocate dumping iron dust into the seas or placing smoke and mirrors in the sky to dim the sun.
International
The startling US commando attack inside Syrian territory over the weekend appears to amplify an emerging message to countries suspected of giving safe passage to terrorists: Take action, or else the US will.
Business
Chinese banks may not be taking the beating that their foreign counterparts have suffered due to the US credit crisis, but their share prices have recently been falling like a stone.
Business
The International Monetary Fund will lend Ukraine $16.5 billion and give Hungary "a substantial financing package" as the turmoil in global credit markets and recession concerns sweep across eastern Europe's emerging markets.
Life
Renowned for its "velvet" strings, "golden" brass and the exceptional and personal timbre of the woodwinds, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO) of Holland is widely acclaimed as one of the best symphony orchestras in the world.
Sports
LONDON: Chelsea's long unbeaten home record in the Premier League ended on Sunday as Liverpool earned a 1-0 victory to surge clear at the top of the standings.
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