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DECEMBER 31 NEWSPAPERS

Beijing Youth Daily 北京青年报
9 laws beneficial to the people in force from tomorrow
九大利民法规明起实施
The new laws govern apartment management fees, working injury insurance for temporary workers, unpleasant TV commercials that air during meal times, rights for people who are forced to move when their neighbourhoods are scheduled for demolition and other seemingly random issues.

The Beijing News 新京报
2007: Beijing to get water from Hebei
2007年:北京叫渴冀水应急
Parched Beijing will get some of its water from resevoirs in Hebei, which means a bunch of stuff will be constructed before 2007.

People's Daily 人民日报
Hu Jintao and other leaders from the Party and the country together with citizens of the capital watch New Year Peking Opera evening show
胡锦涛等党和国家领导人同首都群众一起观看新年京剧晚会
Big news man.

11AM INTERNET
Sina
Tieling, Liaoning fire cracker plant explosion: 36 dead
辽宁铁岭鞭炮厂发生爆炸36人死亡

Sohu
Explosion in fire cracker plant in Liaoning: 36 dead
辽宁一烟花厂爆炸36人死

DECEMBER 30 NEWSPAPERS

Beijing Evening News 北京晚报
Constantly renew to better satisfy people's requirement for spiritual culture
不断创新更好满足群众精神文化需求
Yawn.

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The Eurasian Face : Blacksmith Books, a publishing house in Hong Kong, is behind The Eurasian Face, a collection of photographs by Kirsteen Zimmern. Below is an excerpt from the series:
Big in China: An adapted excerpt from Big In China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising A Family, Playing The Blues and Becoming A Star in China, just published this month. Author Alan Paul tells the story of arriving in Beijing as a trailing spouse, starting a blues band, raising kids and trying to make sense of China.
Pallavi Aiyar's Chinese Whiskers: Pallavi Aiyar's first novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in contemporary Beijing, will be published in January 2011. Aiyar currently lives in Brussels where she writes about Europe for the Business Standard. Below she gives permissions for an excerpt.
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+ David Moser on Mao impersonators (2004.10): I first became aware of this phenomenon in 1992 when I turned on a Beijing TV variety show and was jolted by the sight of "Mao Zedong" and "Zhou Enlai" playing a game of ping pong. They both gave short, rousing speeches, and then were reverently interviewed by the emcee, who thanked them profusely for taking time off from their governmental duties to appear on the show.
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