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Advertisement starts (Tiscali)WUHAN, CHINA - (CHINA OUT) Residents play at the flooded bank of the Yangtze River on September 6, 2008 in Wuhan of Hubei Province, China. Due to torrential rains, the water level at the Wuhan section of Yangtze River is approaching the 25-meter line that poses a flood thread.

Endangered monkey population doubles in three decades in SW China (People's Daily)The number of wild gray snub-nosed monkeys, an endangered species only found in southwest China's Guizhou Province, has more than doubled to about 850 over the past three decades. The monkey, the rarest among the three species of golden monkeys in China's Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Hubei provinces, mainly lives in the 419-square-kilometer mountainous Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve in ...

Cross-Straits travel eased by new rules (Asia News Network)Beijing yesterday (September 7) unveiled a series of new measures to facilitate cross-Straits exchanges and cooperation amid better relations between the mainland and Taiwan.

Endangered monkey population doubles in SW China (China Economic Net)The number of wild gray snub-nosed monkeys, an endangered species only found in southwest China's Guizhou Province, has more than doubled to about 850 over the past three decades.

Mainland issues policies to ease cross-Straits travel (China Economic Net)Mainland residents with permits to go to Taiwan will be able to travel to and from Taiwan through the islands of Jinmen, Mazu and Penghu, Wang Yi, director of State Council Taiwan Affairs Office announced on Sunday.

More banks interested in trust firms (China Daily)Commercial banks in China are involved in an acquisition race for trust companies to prepare themselves for future competition, and many succeeded getting what they wanted after long talks, the Shanghai Securities News reported on Friday.

Cross-Straits travel eased by new rules (China Daily)Beijing yesterday unveiled a series of new measures to facilitate cross-Straits exchanges and co-operation amid better relations between the mainland and Taiwan.

Caption Only (Vancouver Sun) Colour Photo: Reuters / PARENTS TAKE IT EASY AFTER THEIR KIDS' FIRST DAY OF UNIVERSITY: Parents of freshmen sleep on mats laid out on a gymnasium floor inside Central China Normal University campus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, Wednesday. The university set out mats for parents accompanying freshmen to their first day of school. ;

Final hurrah for He (China Daily)US swimmer Michael Phelps hogged the limelight in the Water Cube during the Olympics, but Chinese swimmer He Junquan is set to steal the show during the Paralympics.

At least 5 dead after torrential rain in central China's Hubei (China Economic Net)At least five people were killed and three others were missing after four consecutive days of torrential rain in central China's Hubei Province.