• Chinese official, on his knees, begs parents of children killed in quake not to protest [AP]
  "The image was startling: A Chinese official on his knees, begging. The Communist Party secretary of Mianzhu city pleaded with protesting parents — whose children were killed in a school collapse during China's recent devastating earthquake — not to complain to higher authorities, the Southern Metropolis Daily newspaper reported Monday."
• China finds escaped quake panda [Reuters]
  "China has recaptured a giant panda that made a bid for freedom after a massive earthquake devastated the research base where it lived, the official Xinhua agency said on Monday."
• Wolong pandas start life anew in Beijing [Xinhua]
  "All of the eight pandas from the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center, near the May 12 quake's epicenter in Wenchuan county, who arrived here on Saturday on a flight from Chengdu, appeared dejected at first, according to Monday's China Daily."
• Taiwan ruling party chief in China for landmark meeting [AFP]
  "Kuomintang chairman Wu Poh-hsiung landed in the eastern city of Nanjing, with his arrival broadcast on national television in a rare break from China's blanket media coverage of the aftermath of its deadly earthquake."
• 1-child policy has exceptions after China quake [AP]
  "Chinese officials said Monday that the country's one-child policy exempts families with a child killed, severely injured or disabled in the country's devastating earthquake."
• Tibet leg of Olympic torch relay cut to one day [Reuters]
  "The Beijing Olympic flame will spend just one day in Tibet next month rather that the three days originally scheduled, an official with the torch relay department of the Beijing Organising Committee said on Monday."

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