Category Archives: Newspapers

Six party talks, guns, seven goods & seven bads

Posted on 2004-06-24 by Tsingsong

Today’s Front Page of the Day is from the Beijing Daily Messenger. Third round of 6-party talks start in Beijing yesterday – City prepares unified exam papers for blind students for the first time – South Korean hostage killed by … Continue reading →

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Fighting exam cheats

Posted on 2004-06-23 by Tsingsong

The Front Page of the Day is from The Beijing News Third round of 6-side talks start today – College entrance exam thought to have leaked through Internet – Tibet ends the railway-less history Headlines from other newspapers are below:

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Dragon boat festival and black market zongzi

Posted on 2004-06-22 by Tsingsong

The Front Page of The Day is from Beijing Daily Messenger Checking out 6 tons of black market zongzi with photo ‘Zongzi’ are little leaf-wrapped packets of rice and dates eaten to celebrate Dragon Boat festival or ‘duanwu jie’ which … Continue reading →

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Ma Jiajue executed

Posted on 2004-06-18 by Tsingsong

All the front pages of today’s newspapers are terrible, but Beijing Youth Daily gets the award because it is slightly less terrible than the others. Public meeting about increasing domestic-use electricity prices to happen soon Ma Jiajue executed Ma Jiajue … Continue reading →

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Parking in residential area, wedding at the forbidden city

Posted on 2004-06-17 by Tsingsong

The Front Page of The Day is from The Beijing News. Property companies must be responsible for cars stolen within their complexes – Labor contractor who caused fire disaster in Jingmin building is arrested – Ordinary citizen’s wedding to be … Continue reading →

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Xi Bai Po spirit

Posted on 2004-06-16 by Tsingsong

The Front Page of The Day is from the Beijing Morning Post Facilities of Beijing West Railway Station to be upgraded this year Visitors’ comments fill 5 notebooks after Xi Bai Po spirit exhibition Rescue folk cultural objects (with photo) … Continue reading →

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The souls of our compatriots come back; trade union conference opens

Posted on 2004-06-15 by Tsingsong

Front page from The Beijing News (新京报) for 15 June, 2004.

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Terrorists kill Chinese workers in Afghanistan

Posted on 2004-06-11 by Tsingsong

The Front Page of The Day is from The Beijing News Hu Jintao requests Afghanistan to severely punish murderers 10 miners killed in coal mine accident (with photo) Driver licenses don’t need to be renewed / inspected annually if drivers … Continue reading →

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The flame that won’t go out

Posted on 2004-06-10 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Today’s Front Page of The Day is from the Beijing Morning Post. See you in Beijing in 2008, Olympic flame! The photo shows, from left to right, an official form the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee, a 73-year-old man who … Continue reading →

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Extra! Extra! Foreigner washes a car

Posted on 2004-06-09 by Jeremy Goldkorn

Today’s Front Page of The Day is from the Beijing Daily Messenger. The photo caption headline wins the award: Laowai [foreigner] cleans car Well, perhaps in Beijing this does fall into the man bites dog category. The photo is a … Continue reading →

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