EDITOR’S DESK A News Weekly Magazine Published Since 18 http: //www.bjreview.com Light the Passion, Share E-mail: [email protected] President & Editor in Chief: Wang Gangyi The Dream Deputy Editor in Chief: Jiang Wandi Vice President: Qi Wengong Associate Editors in Chief: Li Jianguo Huang Wei Executive Editor: Zhou Jianxiong Assistant Executive Editors: Yao Bin, Ding Zhitao, By ZHANG ZHIPING Zhang Zhiping, Francisco Little Editorial Administrators: Li Ning, Shi Bosen Senior Consultant: Shao Haiming After six days of traveling across Greece, March 31 saw the Opinion Editor: Yao Bin World Editor: Ding Zhitao Olympic flame finally land on Chinese soil, symbolizing the Nation Editor: Tang Qinghua successful handover of the holy fl ame from one ancient civilization Business Editors: Yu Shujun, Lan Xinzhen to another. The Olympic fl ame from its home in Heraeum, Greece, Culture Editor: Zan Jifang Editorial Consultants: John Butcher, was used to ignite a bronze cauldron at Tiananmen Square, marking Michael Standaert the start of the 137,000-km trip for the Olympic torch. Kartik Krishna, Roseanne Gerin The flame, symbolizing peace, friendship and hope, is the Staff Reporters: Tang Yuankai, Feng Jianhua, Ding Ying, Ni Yanshuo, incarnation of Olympic ideals and spirit. Having transcended Ding Wenlei, Wang Jun, divisions in politics, religions and cultures, the flame shows the Yan Wei, Tan Wei, Li Li, human race’s pursuit for courage and all that is good in people. 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Cai was made minister of culture at have an impact on China’s food supply, when talking to the First Session of the 11th National People’s reporters on the sidelines of the Greater Mekong River Congress in March. Subregion Summit in Vientiane, Laos. Wen said that Wang, 57, spent 26 years in journalism at China has stockpiled about 40-50 million tons of rice Guangming Daily, a Beijing-based publication mainly catering for the country’s intellectuals. “I am not suggesting that more In August 2001, he was appointed editor “ in chief of People’s Daily, China’s largest regulation is the answer, or even national newspaper, after serving 14 months that more effective regulation can as vice minister of the Publicity Department prevent the periods of fi nancial of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Wang was promoted to publisher of People’s Daily in November 2002. market stress that seem to occur every fi ve to 10 years.” Former Shanghai Party Chief on Trial U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, a 30-year Chen Liangyu, former secretary of Wall Street veteran, after unveiling on March 31 the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the the most extensive overhaul of the U.S. financial Communist Party of China (CPC), made his regulatory system since the Great Depression fi rst court appearance on corruption charges in Tianjin on March 25. “Earth Hour shows that everyday The 62-year-old Chen was accused of accepting bribes of 2.39 million yuan people are prepared to pull ($340,000) and helping two local businesses together to fi nd a solution to embezzle 2 billion yuan (nearly $300 million) climate change. It can be done.” from the city’s social security fund. He was also found guilty of illegal land transactions James Leape of WWF International, organizer of the “Earth Hour” campaign that saw up to 30 million people carried out by his younger brother. across the world turning off their lights for 60 minutes Chen, a member of the Political Bureau of on March 29 to show concern for global warming the CPC Central Committee since November 2002, was sacked from his Party posts for corruption investigation in September 2006, after the misuse of Shanghai’s social security fund was “Anyone can stay at hotels as of exposed. Among the 25 senior government officials and state-owned midnight last night, as long as they company executives involved in the scandal were several of Chen’s longtime have ID and the money to pay aides. According to a recent report of the National Audit Offi ce, 33.9 billion yuan ($4.8 billion) had been misappropriated from the fund, with most of the for a room.” money going to real estate projects. A night porter at the Chateau Miramar Hotel in west Chen, who was expelled from the CPC in July 2007, is the highest- Havana. Cuba has lifted a ban on its nationals staying at ranking offi cial to be prosecuted in China in more than a decade. hotels reserved exclusively for foreigners, which is the latest step to liberalize the state under new President Raul Castro, who has ended bans on Cubans buying Big Reprieve for ATM Thief computers, DVD players and cellular telephones One of China’s most controversial criminal defendants in recent years, Xu Ting got handed a major reprieve on March 31, “It is a matter of considerable when the Intermediate People’s Court of disappointment, it has dented Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, slashed his national pride.” jail term from life to fi ve years. Last November, Xu, a 24-year-old British Aviation Minister Jim Fitzpatrick, criticizing travel chaos at London Heathrow Airport’s newly opened migrant worker from north China’s Shanxi Terminal 5 after the $9-billion complex’s state-of-the-art Province who withdrew 175,000 yuan luggage-handling system failed to work as expected ($24,400 then) from a faulty ATM in Guangzhou in April 2006, was convicted of grand larceny by the same court and sentenced to life imprisonment. 用真正的同传老师 The unexpected judgment had sparked heated public debate on 用真正的同传设备 whether his actions constituted a crime and what penalty he deserved.