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The People's Daily website has a headline news story asserting that Rebiya Kadeer, the head of the World Uighur Congress, has used falsified photos in a television interview about the riots in Urumqi over the weekend

Ethnic violence between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in Urumqi, capital city of Xinjiang in far western China, produced more than 150 deaths, brought paramilitary troops out to restore order, saw mosques closed and curfew imposed, and the arrests of more than 1400 people.

The Xinhua News Agency website has a headline news story about responses from Qin Gang, a spokesman for China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to questions about the violence in Urumqi over the past weekend, as well as attacks upon Chinese embassies in the Netherlands and Germany.

The People's Daily website carries an opinion piece about the need to "strike hard" against violent demonstrations in Urumqi, the capital of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, and to "resolutely preserve social stability" in the aftermath of the riots over the weekend.

Reporting from Urumqi, China, and Beijing -- With his left cheek the size of a grapefruit, a bloodied Chen Shengli walked out of the hospital Monday night into the eerily quiet city center of Urumqi.

The Chinese government and Uighur exile groups blamed each other after the deadliest ethnic violence in decades left at least 156 people dead and 800 injured in Urumqi, western China , on Sunday.

The Sina news portal has a headline news story about a speech given by the chairman for the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Nur Bekri, in which he blames the violence in Urumqi over the weekend on Uighur separatist groups outside of China.

The Sohu news portal has a headline news story about a kissing competition which was held in Guangan, Sichuan province, where the second-prize winners were a couple from Chongqing who both kissed and danced simultaneously.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said China will keep consistent macro-economic policies, promote structural adjustment, develop new growth sectors, improve growth quality and increase people's livelihood to ensure stable and fast economic growth.

Former Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan on Saturday called for the whole world to work together to seek reforms in financial supervision, boost economic restructuring and build a green economy.

This just happened on the evening of July 5, 2009. At this time , it is know that there is some kind of mass incident.

Asia Pacific News.Net Sunday 5th July, 2009 New Delhi, July 5 : The Chinese mainland confirmed 42 new cases of A/H1N1 influenza till Saturday, bringing the total to 1002.

Beijing's last minute climb-down on its latest Internet-censorship effort this week highlights the possibility that Chinese communist mandarins' main challenge in the future lies not in quelling political dissent, but reigning in its tech-savvy educated elite.

China has no plans to raise its proposal for a new global currency to replace the dollar at the G8 meeting this week but is willing to discuss it, a top Chinese diplomat said, as President Hu Jintao left Sunday for Italy.

Suresh Tendulkar, an economic adviser to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, said he is urging the government to diversify its $264.6 billion foreign-exchange reserves and hold fewer dollars.

Rainstorms since early the week have swept a wide swathe of south China, leaving dozens people dead or missing and forcing hundreds of thousands to evacuate.

Chinese authorities have punished six government officials after three baby girls whose parents were still alive were sent to an orphanage in southern China that subsequently put them up for adoption overseas, state media and an official said.

More rain is forecast over the rest of the weekend. Torrential rain battering southern China has forced more than 150,000 people from their homes, toppled hundreds of houses and punched a dangerous hole in the spillway of a dam, Xinhua news agency reported.

A Chinese company that owns the trademark "i-phone" has said it is not in talks with Apple, even though Apple may need the company's blessing to sell its similarly named iPhone in China.

This year China is on track to pass the United States as the world's largest market for wind turbines - after doubling wind power capacity in each of the last four years.