The daily newspaper review will take a slightly different format starting today: we will pick one news story that stands out because of importance, amount of coverage in different newspapers or sheer absurdity. Today’s story of the day is in the The Beijing News:
Surviving together with the trees
Homeowners in a Beijing residential community have taken a leaf out of western enviromental activists books: they are protesting a property developers plans to destroy a green area to build a new block of commercial housing by roping themselves to the trees.
News in other papers:
The Beijing Youth Daily has an article about citizens living in old and dangerous city houses, while the Beijing Morning Post reports on how the recent rainfall in the capital is bringing relief to Beijing’s near drought summer, but causing traffic problems.
People in the News:
‘Black whistle’ Gong Jianping dies
Most Beijing media reported Gong’s death today. Gong was an international-class football referee, who was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for accepting bribes. He died of leukemia in hospital yesterday.