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Updated: 2007-09-24 07:01

BEIJING,

Forbidden City cafe

A new coffee shop opened last week inside the Palace Museum, located
exactly at the same place where a controversial Starbucks coffee shop was
for seven years before shutting down.

With wooden tables and chairs, and pictures featuring Chinese culture,
the "Forbidden City Cafe" serves not only coffee, but also traditional
Chinese beverages such as tea.

"Unlike the Starbucks coffee shop, the Palace Museum is the managerial
authority of the cafe," Beijing Daily quoted Li Wenru, deputy curator of
the Forbidden City, as saying.

Fruitful crops

Eleven measures to attract farmers to raise oil-bearing crops were
announced by the Ministry of Agriculture yesterday.

The measures will be implemented to expand the acreage for oil-bearing
crops, raise unit output and improve product variety.

According to the policy, China will allocate additional 1.3 billion yuan
($173 million) to subsidize popularization of fine strains of oil-bearing
crops, of which 300 million yuan will go to soybean production.

TIANJIN

Diplomat's new post

Former foreign minister Li Zhaoxing took the post of dean of Zhou Enlai
School of Government at Tianjin-based Nankai University yesterday,
sources with the university said.

Li said he was delighted to work at prestigious Nankai University. He
served as a guest professor at the university in 1993, and will now serve
as the dean for a four-year term.

Li, born in 1940 in Jiaonan County of Shandong Province, is a renowned
diplomat and poet. He was China's permanent representative to the United
States, ambassador to the United States and foreign minister.

Xinhua

(China Daily 09/24/2007 page2)

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