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Top News

Terrorism 'big threat' to Olympics
Terrorism poses the biggest threat to the holding of a successful Beijing Olympic Games, Minister of Public Security Zhou Yongkang said yesterday and called for closer international collaboration on information sharing and risk analysis.

Sharif deported soon after return

Strict screening sparks sperm shortage


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Top News

Interpol to help ensure safe Games
The International Criminal Police Organization, better known by its telegraphic address Interpol, will post a task force in Beijing next year to help China with the security for the Olympic Games.

Chopper joins search for missing Russians

Chen tries 'dollar diplomacy' in Africa

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Nation

More support for firms in IPR disputes
The government is to establish a litigation response contingency fund to help companies deal with intellectual property rights (IPR) disputes, the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) has said.

UN gives advice on fighting AIDS

China's suicide rate among world's highest

Renters dream of ownership

Inspection of major hospitals

Shanghai's North Bund to get new skyline


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Nation

$14.6b boosts public transport system
SHANGHAI: The municipal government is earmarking 110 billion yuan ($14.6 billion) to improve its public transportation system, reduce the price of tickets and ease congestion.

Improved conditions lure migrants back to Guangdong

More protection for Zhejiang's islands

New plan to save Qinghai Lake

Race is on to protect Three Gorges flora

Across China: Beijing

Across China: Shanghai

Across China: Guangxi

Across China: Liaoning

Across China: Gansu

Across China: Xinjiang


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Nation

Beijing is beautiful, HK is safe, study says
HONG KONG: Beijing is the most beautiful city in China and Hong Kong the safest and second most beautiful, according to a study by the China Institute of City Competitiveness.

Universities offer free lodging

Village supervisors help cut corruption complaints by 50%

Job important, but rich husband will do nicely: Survey

Zhongshan set to ban smoking in restaurants

Shanghai people getting bigger

Students urged not to trade stocks


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China Scene

Vegetable growing technique not music to everyone's ears
A grower in East China's Zhejiang Province has thought of a novel way to increase the output and quality of his vegetables - by playing music to them.

China Scene: East

China Scene: Central

China Scene: South

China Scene: West

China Scene: North


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International

Bin Laden to appear in new tape: Website
Al-Qaida's media arm announced yesterday that it will release a new video of Osama bin Laden presenting the last testament of one of the September 11 suicide hijackers, marking the sixth anniversary of the attacks.

India building nuke submarine: Report

Ruling on Hyundai chairman challenged

Truck carrying chemicals blows up, dozens killed

Time magazine ordered to pay Suharto $106m

Militants free 260 kidnapped troops

Around the world: Spain

Around the world: Russia

Around the world: Afghanistan

Around the world: United States

Around the world: Colombia


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International

US troop increase fruitless: Iraqis
Overwhelming numbers of Iraqis say the US troop build-up has worsened security and the prospects for economic and political progress in their country, according to a poll released yesterday that provides a strikingly bleak appraisal of the war.

US delayed UK's Basra pullout: Brigadier

Democratic runners woo Hispanics on immigration

Lebanon seeks $382m to rebuild refugee camp

London's maverick mayor gets posh rival

Abbas, Olmert agree to set up negotiation team

Across Asia: Republic of Korea

Across Asia: Japan

Across Asia: Iran

Across Asia: Malaysia

Across Asia: Afghanistan

Across Asia: Australia


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International

Fear the machine: Techies ponder AI
At the center of a black hole there lies a point called a singularity where the laws of physics no longer make sense.

Most women own 19 pairs of shoes - some secretly

Jakartans banned from giving to beggars

Crowds flock to shepherds protest

News makers

World Scene: United Kingdom

World Scene: Italy

World Scene: France

World Scene: Norway

World Scene: United States


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Comment

Better management of banks is the key
Improved internal management is more important than executive stock options for the future development of China's State-owned banks.

Cartoon

Education for the poor

Lamenting slow death of egg tarts

Poor safety prevention

Methods need improving

Learn from Wuxi lesson

Tobacco revenue


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Opinion

China can lead world in innovation system
Widely acknowledged as the world's leading economic think tank, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)'s Paris-based experts can read a country's vital signs in an instant, and prescribe whatever remedies are required to nurse it to growth-busting health.

From our archives

Letters and Blogs

Tenor of the times as well as a rock star


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Insight

Diplomacy is more than a diplomat's job
He introduced Tea House to his country 17 years ago. His translation of the famous Chinese play was his way of bridging two diverse cultures. So it's natural that as Serbia's ambassador to China, Miomir Udovicki knows the importance of cultural, educational and economic exchanges between China and Serbia, for only regular exchanges can take bilateral ties to new heights.

McCann trial by the media


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Business

Blackstone takes 20% in BlueStar
Leading private equity firm Blackstone Group will spend $600 million for a 20 percent stake in China National BlueStar (Group) Corp, the parent of BlueStar said yesterday.

B787s to arrive on time

Special treasury bonds to be sold

Latest AMD chip launched

Bank deposits on the rise


   
Women's World Cup kicks off
Performers put on a theme show at the opening ceremony of the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup at Hongkou  Stadium in Shanghai yesterday. The event will last till September 30 and games will be also played in co-host cities Tianjin, Wuhan, Hangzhou and Chengdu. Sixteen teams are taking part in the event with Germany thrashing Argentina 11-0 in the opening match.Gao Erqiang

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Business China

Developer to raise HK$12b
Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Ltd, the property unit of China's biggest shipping company, is seeking HK$11.9 billion in a Hong Kong share sale as real estate prices surge on the mainland.

Lender sets a target of 15b yuan

Record numbers expected

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Business Indepth

Farmers cotton on to biotech industry
Zu Maotang has been planting cotton since 1982, but it took until 1997 for him to make a living from it.

BA takes wing in a market that's going places

Biz Scene: Biz Unusual

Biz Scene: Local

Biz Scene: Market

Biz Scene: Biz Moves

Biz Scene: Grapevine


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Business International

'US downturn imperils global growth'
This time, when the United States sneezes, the rest of the world may well catch a cold.

Deloitte to help Oz racing industry

Sasol plans sale of 10% stake to black investors

European tech firm, Google join forces

Alstom exec, former Elf CEO Jaffre dies at 62

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Life

The art of marketing
A gift from Russia's former leader Joseph Stalin to Chairman Mao Zedong in the late 1940s, the Shanghai Exhibition Hall, proves that a symbol of political friendship can also become an architectural classic. A combination of magnificent Russian style and exquisite Baroque details, it has become a landmark that still shines brightly among the forest of modern skyscrapers.

US museum returns tattooed Maori head, bones to New Zealand

Who's in


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Life Culture

Looming large
CHENGDU: Chinese newlyweds once received a very special gift on their wedding night. Friends and family presented the couple with a brocade silk bedcover featuring a dragon (symbol of the male) and phoenix (female). But like many Chinese traditions, younger people are turning to modern styles. Duvets are more appealing to young couples.

The emperor's fairy concubine in brocade of lantern patterns

A family's sword of honor

Great Danes show sensuality and sincerity


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Life Pulse

Almost on the home stretch
The scene at a Beijing sports stadium is in keeping with the slogan of the 2007 Special Olympics World Summer Games, Shanghai - I know I can. Here, 30-year-old Ma Yunli trains under an early autumn sunshine, with 63 other athletes, for the upcoming event that will be held from October 2 to 11.

'I have seen their happy smiles and lives changed'

Facts behind the Special Olympics

Cheers to the queue queen, boo to the bank

Reviews


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Sports China

Chinese gymnasts get yips on final day
STUTTGART: Chinese gymnasts faltered at the last hurdle of the Stuttgart World Gymnastic Championships on Sunday, seizing just one silver medal on the last day of the meet.

Jaded Chilean's fortunes look up in first round of China Open

Germany humiliates Argentina in 11-0 rout

Score board


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Sports

Choker smokes own 100m mark
RIETI, ITALY: Perennial disappointment Asafa Powell has been working hard since his shattering third-place finish at the Ahletics World Championships in Japan.

Woods turns 60 with clinical PGA victory

Moss makes impressive debut as Patriots roll over NY Jets

Top shot


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Sports

Federer has Sampras in his sights
NEW YORK: Roger Federer hoisted aloft the US Open trophy for a fourth straight year on Sunday after victory against Novak Djokovic before swiftly turning his gaze to Pete Sampras and the all-time record for grand slam titles.

Springboks cruise but minnows find World Cup teeth

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