Roundup on October 19th
- Source: Global Times
- [00:55 October 19 2009]
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Hunt for relics
The Summer Palace will dispatch a panel this month to travel around the world to trace relics looted from the Old Summer Palace, a spokesman for the Summer Palace Administration Office told the media on Sunday, the 149th anniversary of the royal garden's fall.
The panel will visit museums, libraries, as well as individual collectors in the US, Britain, France, Japan and Taiwan Province within the next 12 months to trace the relics and then compile a list and build a data bank, according to Chen Mingjie, director of the office, who said the office will make their findings public after the program.
Over 1.5 million pieces were taken overseas, Chen said.
Book pirates held
Beijing police arrested two men who allegedly reprinted the copies of the book, Zhu Rongji in Press Conference.
The book, including the speeches and responses to reporters' questions by the former premier, hit the market in September. The arrested men, surnamed Jiang and Kang, allegedly reprinted 7,000 copies and sold 4,000 copies.
Police seized the remaining 3,000 illegal copies.
The book contains 60 chapters, 300,000 words and 85 pictures, most of which were published for the first time.
Some 750,000 copies were sold inside China starting in mid-September. The publisher, People's Press, had expected to sell more than 1 million copies.
Crash kills 5
Five people were confirmed dead and three others were injured in a collision between a mini-bus and a car on Sunday in Haining, Zhejiang Province, police said.
The mini-bus with seven seats carried nine people. All the fatalities, two men and three women, were the bus passengers. None of the four people in the car were injured.
The accident happened at 11:22 am on Hangzhouwan Road, Haining. Police detained the drivers and are investigating the cause of the accident.
The two male victims are from Central China's Henan Province. The injured have been sent to a nearby hospital.
Global Times/ Agencies
