Foreign scribes 'welcome'

KUNMING: When Khieu Kola, a Cambodian television journalist, arrived in Kunming to cover the 11th Yunnan provincial people's congress session, he never imagined he would become the story.

Wu Hao, deputy director of the publicity department of the Party Committee of Yunnan, gave Kola the opportunity to be the second to ask his questions right after State-run Xinhua News Agency was done with theirs.

This is the second year that the local government has allowed foreign journalists to attend the annual "two sessions", which conclude on Jan 26, and received eight applications from six countries.