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26 Poles killed in bus crash
Jul 23, 2007 ... Twenty-six Polish pilgrims died yesterday when their coach crashedoff a mountain road at a notorious accident blackspot in the FrenchAlps and burst into flames, police and officials said. Another 24 people were injured, 14 critically, when the coachsmashed through a roadside ...
UN suspends Moroccan troops in Cote d'Ivoire
Jul 23, 2007 ... The United Nations has suspended a Moroccan military contingentfrom its peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire while it investigatesallegations of widespread sexual abuse, the world body said onSaturday. Soldiers from the 734-strong battalion are alleged to havesexually abused ...
Tax hike a blessing
Jul 23, 2007 ... With the country already bracing itself for rising inflation, itwas a hard choice for policymakers to hike taxes on resources thatmight further boost the price of several products. However, the decision by the Ministry of Finance and the StateAdministration of Taxation to ...
Office workers finding it harder to breathe easy
Jul 23, 2007; Wang Ying ... Pent-up office workers dissatisfied with not enough money and freetime now have another bugbear: good, clean air. A recent survey of office workers found most of those polledbelieved they were working in unhealthy environments. The complaints included not having enough ...
Students plagued by poor health
Jul 23, 2007; Zhang Kun ... SHANGHAI: Soon after one student catches a cold, sniffles andsneezes are heard in every classroom, and not just at kindergartens -universities are also hotbeds for germs. Shanghai Jiaotong University recently carried out a survey on thelifestyles and health conditions of students ...
Increase grain output: Ministry
Jul 23, 2007; Wu Yong ... The Ministry of Agriculture has called on local governments totake steps to ensure autumn grain production in the wake ofwidespread flooding and draught. "Stabilizing the autumn grain supply will be a challenging task,"the ministry said in an emergency notice released over the ...
Local gov'ts 'ignoring' green model
Jul 23, 2007; Fu Jing ... Some local governments are investing heavily in high resourcesconsuming sectors, ignoring the central government's decision to saveenergy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Development andReform Commission (NDRC) officials said yesterday. Failure to meet the central ...
When dreams came true
Jul 23, 2007; Chen Zhiyong ... The past few weeks have been a time of nostalgia for a group of 50-something Tsinghua University classmates recently. On a series of TVtalk shows, Yu Naihong and a dozen others shared memories of 30 yearsago when they became the first lucky batch to take the collegeentrance examination ...
Victory of principles: India's 1st female president
Jul 23, 2007 ... Pratibha Patil has become the first female president of India inan election result described as an historic step forward for women inthe south Asian nation. MPs elected the 72-year-old lawyer by a landslide over the 84-year-old vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat for the ...
All Black Cup hopes brighten after Tri-Nations win
Jul 23, 2007 ... WELLINGTON, New Zealand: New Zealand's All Blacks eased a publiccrisis of confidence on the weekend when they beat Australia 26-12 towin rugby's Tri-Nations title. Until Saturday's match at Eden Park, New Zealand had appeared tostruggle under the weight of favoritism for this ...
Turks vote in election clouded by Islamist row
Jul 23, 2007 ... Turks voted for a new parliament yesterday, faced with a choicebetween the ruling AK Party's pro-business, religiously conservativepolicies and nationalist rivals keen to keep Islam out of politics. Opinion polls show the Islamist-rooted AK Party winning a freshfive-year mandate ...
Claims against doctor denied
Jul 23, 2007 ... Australian police denied newspaper reports yesterday they wereinvestigating whether an Indian doctor detained on terror charges mayhave been plotting to blow up a high-rise building on the Gold Coast. Lawyers for Mohamed Haneef earlier criticized the reports whichsaid police were ...
An unhealthy relationship
Jul 23, 2007 ... When a hospital in Shenzhen equipped doctors and nurses withmilitary helmets in the wake of a medical accident, we dismissed it,believing it was little more than a sensational public relationsploy. When, on the heels of some other places, municipal authorities inBeijing announced ...
Weather keeps heating up in Tibet
Jul 23, 2007 ... LHASA: The average annual temperature in Southwest China's TibetAutonomous Region is rising at a speed of 0.3 C every 10 years, whichis higher than the average growth rate in the country and world, alatest research shows. The report, "Tibet's Climate under the Global Warming ...
Fresh graduates are rushing into marriage
Jul 23, 2007 ... Wang Ni and Liu Hao, both 23 years old, got married last week, amonth after they graduated from Shanghai University of Finance andEconomics. "We married for love," said Wang Ni. "We fell in love when we werejuniors. Now we want our passion to continue." University students in ...
Green GDP in the works
Jul 23, 2007; Yuan Wu ... The green gross domestic product (GDP) for last year is beingprepared despite the indefinite postponement of the 2005 report'srelease, a top green GDP accounting expert said yesterday. "Although there is no internationally recognized methodology forthe accounting (of green GDP) and ...
In a class of their very own
Jul 23, 2007; Chen Zhiyong ... In the early 1980s, even with the resumption of the nationalcollege entrance exam, university enrolment remained low. Those whopassed became a privileged lot, enjoying the right to an assigned jobby the government. However, compared to parents today who press their children ...
Faceoff over Facebook
Jul 23, 2007 ... In an American courtroom this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergwill stand accused of stealing the idea for the site from threefellow Harvard students. It could be described as a poke, but not a friendly one. For thosewho have not yet succumbed to Facebook, the latest craze on ...
Score board
Jul 23, 2007 ... Baseball NEW YORK: Results from MLB games on Saturday (home team in CAPS): Arizona 3 CHICAGO CUBS 2 NY YANKEES 7 Tampa Bay 3 NY YANKEES 17 Tampa Bay 5 TORONTO 1 Seattle 0 BOSTON 11 Chicago White Sox 2 WASHINGTON 3 Colorado 0 San ...
Possible heirs 'have much in common'
Jul 23, 2007 ... The competition to win Russian President Vladimir Putin's nod ashis chosen successor took a strange turn over the weekend. The two government ministers seen as competing for Putin'sendorsement made a rare joint appearance, where they stressed howmuch they have in common and hinted ...