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Trimming bureaucracy

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

Beijing [government] stops requiring 137 permits
I.e. bureaucracy is being reduced

- Ticket prices calculated by mileage will be applied in subway
- To become queen
The finals of 2004 Miss International Travel in Hangzhou, with photo
- Liu Fangren is sentenced to life imprisonment in first trial
- Saddam is transferred to Iraqi court today (with photo)
- Captive American soldier is shot to death in Iraq (with photo)
- Training aircraft crashes in Mianyang, 2 deaths

Headlines from other newspapers are below:

The Beijing News 新京报
北京今夏坚持限电不拉闸
Beijing continues to limit electricity consumption without pulling switches

Beijing Youth Daily 北京青年报
原贵州省委书记被判无期
Former secretary of Guizhou Provincial Party Committee sentenced to life imprisonment

People's Daily 人民日报
研究进一步做好新形势下发展党员工作
Do research on how to develop new CCP members under new situation

Headlines of yesterday's evening newspapers:

Beijing Evening News 北京晚报
近2000家药厂明天关门
Almost 2000 drug factories to be closed tomorrow

Shanghai Xinmin Evening News 新民晚报
党旗下宣誓 走向新岗位
Taking an oath of marching toward new job position under Party flag

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