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Extra! Extra! Foreigner washes a car

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Today's Front Page of The Day is from the Beijing Daily Messenger. The photo caption headline wins the award:

Laowai [foreigner] cleans car
Well, perhaps in Beijing this does fall into the man bites dog category. The photo is a teaser for the newspaper's supplement on 2004 Auto exhibition currently going on in Beijing.

The large headline is: Olympic flame climbs Great Wall for the first time

Rescue air pumped into sunken area
Miners trapped in a coal mine near Beijing are being kept alive while the rescue team tries to get them out. For more on this story, see this post on Asianlabour.org

Headlines from other newspapers are below:

Beijing Morning Post 北京晨报
奥运火炬今天逛京城
Olympic torch goes around Beijing city today

The Beijing News 新京报
北京今夏可能拉闸限电
Beijing [government] will probably limit electricity consumption

Beijing Youth Daily 北京青年报
北京迎来雅典奥运圣火
Beijing welcomes Olympic flame

People's Daily 人民日报
胡锦涛对波兰进行国事访问
Hu Jintao goes to Poland for state visit

YESTERDAY'S EVENING PAPERS

Beijing Evening News 北京晚报
雅典奥运圣火今晨到北京
Athens Olympic flame comes to Beijing this morning

Shanghai Xinmin Evening News 新民晚报
大相扑回到外婆家
The big [Sumo] wrestler returns to grandmother's house

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