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Six party talks, guns, seven goods & seven bads

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Today's Front Page of the Day is from the Beijing Daily Messenger.

Third round of 6-party talks start in Beijing yesterday

- City prepares unified exam papers for blind students for the first time
- South Korean hostage killed by kidnappers in Iraq
- Trying out guns (with photo of a visitor at a police equipment exhibition)

Headlines from other newspapers are below including seven goods and seven bads:

Beijing Morning Post 北京晨报
奥林匹克文化节昨晚开幕
Olympic culture festival opens last night

Beijing Youth Daily 北京青年报
七部门套取财政资金近亿元
7 government departments illegally embezzle financial fund worth almost 100 million [yuan]

People's Daily 人民日报
国家宏观调控取得七大成效
7 big effects achieved by national macroeconomic regulations

The Beijing News 新京报
朝鲜愿意有条件弃核
DPRK is willing to give up nuclear program with conditions

Headlines of yesterday's evening newspapers:

Beijing Evening News 北京晚报
暑假前中小学要上好节电节水这一课
Primary and middle school students should learn how to save electricity and water before summer holiday

Shanghai Xinmin Evening News 新民晚报
孩子,我怎么安排你
Child, how can I sort you out
Parents worry about school holidays

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