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CHINA DAILY - Monday November 3,2008
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The government should find the right balance between curbing inflation and maintaining a stable economic growth, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Saturday.
Rain devastates southwest
People run to avoid being caught in a mudslide as workers try to rebuild a road blocked by landslides in Deqin, Yunnan province, yesterday. Heavy downpours, accompanied by squalls, have lashed Southwest China over the weekend, leaving 20 people dead and 42 missing in Yunnan. Floods triggered by torrential rain since Friday have claimed one life in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, too, where nine persons are missing and 70,000 have been moved to safer places.  Xinhua
Nation
Sale of tangerines started recovering over the weekend following a fruit fly scare that saw record lows in business in mid-October, the Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday.
Comment
Chen Yunlin, president of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), and his entourage arrive in Taipei today and will meet with Chiang Pin-kung, chairman of Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), tomorrow for their second round of talks on cross-Straits relations and a full range of topics about exchanges and cooperation.
China Scene
Father punches teacher after son's test score fall
Life
The sound from Hollow Reed instantly piques your ears. It has a jazz rhythm section, a sprinkling of Latin percussion, but the main melody is played on an erhu, the traditional Chinese instrument sometimes known as "the Chinese two-string fiddle". One cannot be sure whether this is East or West. The best way to describe it is East-meets-West, or what Phil Morrison and Keith Williams call "international harmony".