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Danwei's new column, TOP 5 NEWS OF THE DAY, is a brief review on spotlights of the newspapers in Beijing. The rank table of news is created according to the importance and relevant media exposure of the day, it covers politics, economic, sports news as well as gossips. A copy of newspaper's front page will be brought to you as usual. Here comes today's TOP 5 NEWS OF THE DAY.

1) Chinese scientists develop the vaccines to stop bird flu spread

2) Boy dies after falling from airplane undercarriage in Gansu)
The front page photo on Beijing Daily Messenger 北京娱乐信报 (left) shows the whole process.See xinhua's report for more detail. The similar accident happened in Kunming airport last year, see Danwei's previous report about airlines here.

3) Olympic champ Liu loses rights infringement litigation
More background about the news, see Danwei's previous post here.

4) Hong Kong interim leader Donald Tsang resigns for the chief executive election in July

5) Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai loses to the top seed Lindsay Davenport of the U.S. unfortunately in the second round of the French Open

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