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Catching kidnappers and fighting bird flu; Hu Jintao in Gabon; Chinese Muslim pilgrims die in Haj stampede, Chinese tourists die in Thai traffic accident

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FEBRUARY 3 NEWSPAPERS
These headlines are from print editions which may not be the same on the publication's website. Below is is the front page of The Beijing News; the image shows health workers sterilizing a poultry farm.

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Beijing Youth Daily 北京青年报
Five Chinese Hajis die in Mena
五名中国朝觐者麦加罹难

The Beijing News 新京报
Take strong measures to prevent AI infecting people
坚决防止禽流感对人传播
Wen Jiabao inspects Anhui and Hubei AI areas.

Beijing Morning Post 晨报
This year's 56 material things for Beijing decided
本市今年56件实事确定
The 'material things' include the building of 6 highways and improving 8 traffic congestion areas.

People's Daily 人民日报
Hu Jintao meets with Gabon president
胡锦涛同加蓬总统邦戈会谈

Beijing Star Daily 信报
Three Chinese tourists die in traffic accident in Thailand
三名中国游客泰国车祸身亡
A tour bus collides with a train

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Sina
Wen Jiabao inspects Anhui and Hubei AI prevention work, gives important speech
温家宝检查皖鄂禽流感防治 作重要讲话

Sohu
Haicheng, Liaoning soy milk affair goes on
辽宁海城豆奶事件再起波澜
Last year in March, about more than 2,000 students from eight elementary schools in Haicheng (Liaoning Province) got sick after drinking a certain brand of soy milk and 2,556 of them became sick afterward. The investigation into the dodgy milk proceeds.

FEBRUARY 2 NEWSPAPERS

Beijing Evening News 北京晚报
Urgently catch the kidnappers in Shidu tourism area
十渡景区紧急围堵绑匪
Policemen have caught 3 of the 4 kidnappers who held a local tourist and asked for RMB300,000 ransom. The cops are on the trail of the fourth kidnapper.

Shanghai Xinmin Evening News 新民晚报
Speed up landscape ecology corridor construction
加快景观生态走廊建设
Shanghai's plan to make the city greener.

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