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www.chinadaily.com.cn — Insomnia-inflicted Liu Xianjin, chief prosecutor in Maoming city, leaped eight floors to his death at his home in south China's Guangdong province at dawn on February 5. This is the fifth publicized unnatural death of a Chinese official so far this year, according to available statistics summed by Nanfang Daily.

www.reuters.com — "The eruption of the U.S. sub-prime crisis has exposed massive loopholes in the United States' financial oversight and supervision," writes the commentator, Shi Jianxun, "The world urgently needs to create a diversified currency and financial system and fair and just financial order that is not dependent on the United States."