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

See you in Beijing in 2008, Olympic flame!
The photo shows, from left to right, an official form the Beijing Olympic Games Organizing Committee, a 73-year-old man who moved house because of construction projects for the games, and NBA star Yao Ming.

Fuyang [Vice] Mayor gets black mark
Fuyang is the town where a factory produced fake milk that lead to the deaths of a number of babies. The Morning Post calls him the Mayor but according to most other sources, he is or was the Vice Mayor.

37.3 degrees centigrade: Beijing has slight fever yesterday

National football team beats Malaysia by 4 - 0 at World Cup preliminary match

1 million yuan for cash-back examinees
Intel, Beijing Morning Post and the Landao Shopping Center have a promotion, offering 1000 yuan cahs back on any Intel computer bought by examinees during the current college entrance examination period.

Beijing car exhibition opens today

Jingmin building fire disaster yesterday

Headlines from other newspapers are below.

The Beijing News 新京报
北京倾城接力奥运圣火
Whole of Beijing city involved in Olympic torch relay

Beijing Youth Daily 北京青年报
奥运圣火传递 点燃北京激情
Olympic torch relay ignites the passion of Beijing

People's Daily 人民日报
胡锦涛会见波兰总理和议会两院议长
Hu Jintao meets Poland prime minister and the parliament leaders

Beijing Daily Messenger 北京娱乐信报
小客驾照昨取消年审
Annual inspection of small bus drivers' license cancelled yesterday

YESTERDAY'S EVENING PAPERS
Beijing Evening News 北京晚报
9时15分奥运火炬手起跑
Olympic flame torch bearer starts running from 9:15am

Shanghai Xinmin Evening News 新民晚报
奥运圣火北京传
Olympic torch handover in Beijing

 
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