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CHINA DAILY - Saturday July 5,2008
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TAIPEI: Cross-Straits relations entered a new era on Friday, as tourist groups arrived in Taiwan on the first "weekend charter flights" from the mainland.
The China Southern Airlines plane carrying the first group of mainland tourists of the day to arrive in Taiwan from Guangzhou, gets a water salute to mark its arrival at the Taoyuan International Airport on Friday.  Reuters
Nation
Priority channels will be opened next week at Beijing's airport for officials, athletes and media visiting the capital for the Olympics next month and Paralympics in September as part of efforts to improve services, airport officials said on Friday.
Comment
Coming out of the theater at midnight, I still felt joy by the film I had just watched. Kung Fu Panda is a hilarious film - the latest Hollywood blockbuster.
Beijing Weekend Guide
The ideal of the "green Olympics" is perhaps nowhere better realized than in the design of the vast new Olympic Forest Park. The park, which has been under construction for three years, was opened to visitors for a sneak preview this week. It will reopen to the public on August 8, the first day of the Olympic Games.
Beijing Weekend Guide
The newly-opened Todai Seafood & Sushi Buffet Restaurant (都太国际连锁海鲜寿司自助) is smart enough to have focused on seafood and sushi, so more healthy, less guilty choices in the buffet.
International and Business
About 50 people were wounded early on Friday by a home-made bomb that sprayed nuts and bolts into a crowd at an open-air concert in Belarus' capital attended by President Alexander Lukashenko, officials said.
Sports
LONDON: Zheng Jie, the first Chinese player to reach a Grand Slam semifinal, admitted she needs to learn how to combat Serena Williams' howitzer serving - and will be looking to her husband for help.
Special Supplement
Near the fantastic afterlife palace built to hold China's first emperor and his terracotta warriors through eternity, once Asia's best basketball center Wang Libin completed the last leg of the Olympic torch's odyssey through Xi'an.
Venezuela China Special
Venezuela and China established diplomatic relations on June 28, 1974 and over the ensuing 34 years the two nations consolidated ties that continue to grow stronger through friendship and mutual respect.