January 28, 2008
New Life Post is a general news daily published by the Yunnan Disabled Person’s Federation and distributed nationwide. It is one of the mainstream newspapers in Yunnan with a daily distribution that reaches 200,000 copies, mostly inside the province.
Today’s lead headline announces that all museums in China will open to the public without entrance fees by 2009. The regulation was issued by four government departments, including the Propaganda Department, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Finance and the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
The front page photo shows thousands of people (170,000) stuck at the Guangzhou Railway Station. Because of snow storms in Central and Southeast China, rail, road and air traffic have all been seriously disrupted.
Other headlines include:
- There will no new face show as host on CCTV‘s Spring Festival Extravaganza this year.
- Former President of Indonesia Suharto died at 86 yesterday.