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Not content with sinking its rabid fangs into our children, our metro system and our optometrists, it seems the sinister cabal behind the Hello Kitty brand now wants to ensnare 50 percent of YOU, dear readers.

Over the week-long National Day holiday:
• Total airline passenger numbers climbed a quarter on the year-earlier period to 3.75 million people, with the record of 540,000 was set on September 30 - the highest number of people to be flying on a single day.
• One million computers were infected with various computer viruses, and 118,000 computers crashed on one day alone.
• Retail sales of consumer goods in China rose 16 percent year-on-year to almost 350 billion yuan.