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CHINA DAILY - Wednesday October 29,2008
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MOSCOW: It's necessary for China and Russia to join hands and strengthen bilateral ties as well as increase economic and trade collaboration between the two fast-growing economies, Premier Wen Jiabao said yesterday.
Premier Wen Jiabao meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow during the Third Sino-Russian Economic Forum yesterday.  AFP
Nation
Developed countries have failed to deliver on commitments made on funding and technology transfer to help developing countries combat global warming, a senior official with the National Development and Reform Commission said yesterday.
Nation
A herdsman was killed on Monday in Tibet's Cona county, as heavy snows that began on Sunday continued to wreak havoc in the autonomous region, the Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday.
China Scene
Grandma sinks teeth into thief to get purse back
Insight
Global stocks markets are plummeting, house prices are slumping and jobless figures are rising but Americans are not about to let a financial crisis dent their Halloween fun. About three quarters of Americans plan to celebrate the ghost and goblins holiday, and despite the credit crunch most are going to delve deeper into their pockets this year to buy candies, costumes and decorations.
Comment
China still enjoys a generally smooth economic development even as the international financial tsunami continues to engulf the whole world and its aftermath is yet to unfold.
Opinion
Predictions about the future determine today's share prices - that is basically how prices are named on the stock market. Currently the US financial crisis is causing havoc in stock markets all over the world, sending share prices up and down like crazy and foretelling the global economy is heading deeper into a fog so thick one can predict nothing but uncertainties.
International
Microsoft Corp took the wraps off a new computing service that allows companies to use its data centers to run their Web applications in a bid to become a player in the "cloud computing" trend.
International
Two white supremacist skinheads were arrested in Tennessee over plans to go on a killing spree and eventually shoot Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, court documents showed on Monday.
Special Supplement
After two days of meetings, the second China-Latin America Entrepreneurs Summit came to a close on Oct 21. The summit has achieved great results and more than 10 business or association agreements were signed.
Business
A top economist and leading bankers said yesterday that China should be an active player in rebuilding the battered international financial system in order to ensure a stable and mutually beneficial global economic order.
Life
In the chaos of the 1960s, Ma Weidu often wondered when he saw people smashing porcelain, tearing paintings and dismantling old constructions. He was just a child and too young to understand what was going on.