China's top legislature, the National People's Congress, will vote on the Law on Civil Servants (government employees) in four days. The draft law includes the rights and responsibilities, governance, salary and fringe benefits of the 6 million civil servants in China. One of highlights in the draft is: civil servants can refuse to obey the unreasonable commands from the upper authorities.

Accident becomes another big news today. As the photo on the front page of The Beijing News, a coal miner waits for news of his co-workers at a coal mine that flooded in Jiaohe County, Northeast China's Jilin Province on April 24. Sixty-nine miners were trapped in the accident.