中文*** - Waste computer turns to a "castle"

The photo taken on July 9 shows a piece of novel and original work of art
named "fossil" draws much attention, as it is made of a mainboard of a
waste computer by a teacher from Shandong Industrial Arts College. The
special design made the machine a sculpture of an old "castle".

Editors: Li Dongchu lidongchu@chinadaily.com 中文名

中文About Nanjing - Beijing witnesses horse riding fever

Some horse riding fans enjoy their riding at a horse ranch in Beijing
July 9. It has become a fashion for more and more Beijingers to go out
for horse riding on weekends nowadays.

Editors: Liu Ying liuying@chinadaily.com 中文名

中文About Shanghai - Silk Road Dress Festival 2007

Models presented middle and west Asian folk creations in a fashion show
in Urumchi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July 7, 2007. "Silk
Road" International Dress Festival 2007 raised curtain here on that day.

High school alums
Rare lotuses
Pilaf feast
Restaurant

Editors: Li Dongchu lidongchu@chinadaily.com 中文名

中文About Japan - Silk Road Dress Festival 2007

Models presented middle and west Asian folk creations in a fashion show
in Urumchi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on July 7, 2007. "Silk
Road" International Dress Festival 2007 raised curtain here on that day.

Editors: Liu Ying liuying@chinadaily.com 中文名

中文About HongKong - Taiwan youths join summer camp in Beijing

Some 1,000 youths from Taiwan take part in a special summer camp in
Beijing, which was kicked off on July 8, 2007, at the Peking University.
This is the picture of five of them, taken after the opening ceremony at
the gate of the Peking University.

Editors: Li Dongchu lidongchu@chinadaily.com 中文名

中文About Beijing - 94 dead in flood-hit south China

BEIJING, July 9 - Floods have left 94 people dead and 25 others missing
in seven provinces in China, a spokesman with the Ministry of Civil
Affairs said on Sunday.
About 16.67 million people had been affected and 555,100 people in
Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Chongqing and Shaanxi evacuated by
4 p.m. on Sunday.
More than 49,000 houses collapsed and another 240,100 were damaged as a
result of torrential rains which began lashing Huaihe River valley, east
area of Sichuan Province and south area of Shaanxi Province on June 28.
Altogether 1.23 million hectares of farmland were affected, with
agricultural losses estimated at 1.95 billion yuan (about 256.9 million
U.S. dollars) while total direct economic losses could reach 3.83 billion
yuan, according to the spokesman.
Heavy rains also triggered mountain torrents, waterloggings, landslides
and mudflows.

Editors: Li Dongchu lidongchu@chinadaily.com 中文名

中文Blog Writer - Three Chinese killed in NW Pakistan

Pakistan policemen transfer the corpse of one of the three Chinese
victims killed by attackers in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, July 8,
2007.

ISLAMABAD, July 9 - Three Chinese workers were killed Sunday in
northwestern Pakistan, police said.
Police officer Abdul Karim said that it was a robbery attempt.
But one witness said that attackers with face covered were shouting
religious slogans when they opened fire on four Chinese nationals in a
three-wheel auto-rickshaw factory at Khazana, a town some eight
kilometers from Peshawar, the capital city of Pakistan's North West
Frontier Province.
The fourth Chinese were seriously wounded. He was later sent to the local
Lady Reading hospital.

Editors: Li Dongchu lidongchu@chinadaily.com 中文名