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Daily headlines: subway lines and sludge

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The Front Page of the Day is from the Beijing Morning Post.

Line drawn in subway for first time

New rules in Beijing's subway stations to prevent passengers from pushing and squeezing.

- Old photo albums expose Japanese invaders' crimes

A quote from Xinhua: [67 years ago] on July 7, 1937, the intruding Japanese forces assaulted Lugou Bridge or Lugouqiao (known as the Marco Polo Bridge), and Chinese defending soldiers responded by gun fire. This has been known as the world-famous Lugou Bridge Incident, which marked the beginning of Japan's all-out aggression against China as well as of China's War of Resistance to Japan.

- Illegal recruitment agents refund money [that they defrauded from job seekers]
With photo.

Headlines from other newspapers are below:

The Beijing News 新京报
六千企业轮流周休避峰让电
6,000 companies implement a week-long vacation to avoid electricity consumption peak

Beijing Youth Daily 北京青年报
安徽发生高致病性禽流感
Contagious bird flu which hits Anhui

Beijing Daily Messenger 北京娱乐信报
体育总局未动用北京奥运资金
Sports Bureau did not use Beijing Olympic funds

People's Daily 人民日报
《邓小平手迹选》出版
Digest of Deng Xiaoping's manuscripts published

Headlines of yesterday's evening newspapers:

Beijing Evening News 北京晚报
北京每天排污泥量高达千吨
Beijing produces about 1,000 tons of pollutant sludge everyday

Nice.

Shanghai Xinmin Evening News 新民晚报
减负,多出来时间做啥?
What can students do with the time saved from decreasing [study] burdens

Curious students can contact Danwei for suggestions on being an idle youth.

 
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