Beijing Today (February 13, 2009)

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BEIJING TODAY PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY February 13, 2009 – February 19, 2009 NO. 402 CN11-0120 HTTP://BJTODAY.YNET.COM CHIEF EDITOR: JIAN RONG NEWS EDITOR: YU SHANSHAN DESIGNER: ZHAO YAN

Designing the impossible

Collectors quest for relic bikes

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Rat and rabbit fated for auction

Page 4 International NGOs stuck in legal limbo

Page 5 Martial masters fight to make ends meet

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176 By Venus Lee Christie’s shot down the possibility of a private sale of two relics: the bronze rabbit and rat heads pilfered more than a century ago from Yuanmingyuan, the ruined summer palace. The auction will be held February 23 to 25 in France despite protest. The price of stolen Chinese relics has skyrocketed in the last decade. The bronze ox head was recovered for 6.5 million yuan in 2000; this year, the pair of heads may fetch 176 million yuan. China opposes the auction of any cultural relics plundered by the

Eight-nation Allied Forces and hopes for their fair return, Song Xinchao, an official with the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, said. Only five heads have been recovered. The whereabouts of the remaining seven, aside from the two heads up for auction, remains unknown. Rumor has it that two heads were sighted in Japan. The cultural heritage office fears that when the dragon head surfaces, it will carry an outrageous price, Liu Yang, a lawyer working to recover the lost pieces, said. CFP Photo

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Grape Wall blogger wild on wine

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Iraqi woman ‘mixes up’ Beijing and Amsterdam

(In millions ofCFP yuan) Photo

Gifts to make her heart melt Page 16

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