Beijing Times
January 30, 2008
On the front page of today's Beijing Times is a picture of Premier Wen Jiabao paying his respects to the relatives of three power company workers in Changsha, Hunan Province. The three workers died on Saturday during a job de-icing a tower; their support equipment collapsed, and they fell off the 50-meter structure.
The Premier said to the families, "Standing before you, I cannot offer any words of comfort. All I can do is bow in apology."
Today's top headline reports on a Politburo meeting held yesterday to assess the current situation and making plan for future relief work. General Secretary and President Hu Jintao presided.
Other headlines:
- The Ministry of Education published regulations cracking down on universities that feed false information to prospective students;
- The Yonghe Lama Temple Subway Station will close on February 7, the first day of the Spring Festival;
- Last year, the per-capita GDP of Shenzhen topped US$10,000;
Today's best headline appears at the bottom of the page: "Seventeen-year-old girl robs feeble taxi driver." The incident, in which a taxi driver put up no resistence when his passenger stole his mobile phone and wrecked his car, occurred last August. Chaoyang Juvenile Court heard the case yesterday but did not reach a verdict.
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Jan 30 2008, 02:20 AM
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