Headlines from Chinese press
JANUARY 8 NEWSPAPERS

Beijing Youth Daily 北京青年报
First day of Spring Festival exodus: 300,000 people leave Beijing
春运首日30万人出京城
The annual pre-Spring Festival great trek begins, but this article reports that there has been no obvious increase in passengers departing from Capital Airport: the people are taking trains and buses.

The Beijing News 新京报
Beijing forbids killing of civet cats
北京急令禁杀果子狸
Beijing health authorities have banned selling and eating of civet cats but also informed the public not to kill them before they have been tested for the SARS virus.

Beijing Morning Post 晨报
Call back defective products, starting with cars
缺陷产品召回从汽车开始
Products that are dangerous or pose health hazards will be banned from the market. It's not clear who will do the banning.

People's Daily 人民日报
Ningbo: over all planning in the development
宁波：发展之中谋统筹
Praising Ningbo city's efforts to reduce the wealth gap between rich and poor.

Beijing Star Daily 信报
Dong Wenhua back to the stage yesterday
董文华昨日复出歌坛
Celebrated army songstress Dong Wenhua released a new album: 'Harbor' at a party in the China World Hotel.

Nanfang weekend 南方周末
'Don't grab my wheat field'
“别夺走我的麦田”
In Qihe county, Shandong, peasant farmers' land was taken away to build a golf club. The land seizure was judged illegal and the land will be returned.

11AM INTERNET

Sina
SARS-like symptoms in another patient in Guangzhou
广州再次发现一例非典疑似病历

Sohu
SARS-like symptoms in another patient in Guangzhou
广州新发现一例非典疑似病历

JANUARY 7 NEWSPAPERS

Beijing Evening News 北京晚报
30,000 policemen got the sack last year
去年三万警察卷铺盖
From August to November last year, unqualified and unsuitable policemen were fired.

Shanghai Xinmin Evening News 新民晚报
'Four offer' activity warms peoples' hearts
”四送“联动暖民心
Retrenched workers and indigent people get help.