Beijing Times
November 13, 2008

The Beijing police and education authorities today start cracking down on knife vendors around schools and universities and confiscating illegal weapons carried by students, the Beijing Times reports.

The newspaper reports that six students in different Chinese cities have died after being stabbed this year. Last month, a student of China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing knifed a professor to death.

Also on the front page:
. Villagers forced a trash dump in Beijing's Huairou District to stop operation due to its bad smell, leading to the rubbish in Huairou County not being collected and sent out for four days (see the big image on the front page).

. Yesterday's football game between Beijing Guo'an and Tianjing Master Kang descended into chaos caused by a disputed referee call. The game ended prematurely with a 2:2 tie.

. According to a report released by the National Audit Office yesterday, from January to October this year, 22.7 billion yuan of public funds have been found to have been misused. 53 government officials and 172 other people are to be prosecuted for their involvement.