Latest update: 12/05/2009 

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In the Papers
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France 24 journalists present a daily round-up of the world's papers.
By Marian HENBEST (text)

 

Shanghai Daily (China)
 
The Shanghai Daily publishes a photograph of survivors of the devastating Sichuan earthquake laying candles and flowers in Beichuan District in memory of their loved ones.  Two thirds of the region’s inhabitants died in the quake which struck one year ago, measuring 8 on the Richter scale.
 
 
China Daily (China)
 
According to the China Daily, the country’s Earthquake Administration has worked over the past year to put an experimental advanced warning system in place.  Two thousand fixed observation points and more than 5,000 mobile warning points have so far been installed.  
 
 
China Daily (China)
 
An article in the opinion section of the China Daily explains how people need more help from the government as they try to go about rebuilding their lives in the aftermath of the earthquake.  Families are still living under precarious conditions and for many, reconstructing their homes is a more urgent priority than trying to heal the psychological wounds. The text focuses on a pig farmer from the Sichuan province whose daughters died in the tremor.
 
 
Le Figaro (France)
 
Le Figaro is among the international papers to pay tribute to the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives in the Sichuan earthquake. This article reveals a Chinese writer was arrested at the end of March in an attempt to compile a list of all the children who had died in the disaster.  Moreover, journalists are still barred from certain regions and have been receiving threats as they try to report on the situation in the country one year on.
 
 
Liberation (France)
 
Liberation publishes a cartoon by Willem which represents Pope Benedict XVI dashing between the Palestinian territories and Israel as he tries to keep everyone happy on his tour of the Middle East.
 
 
 
Staying with pictoral depictions of the papal visit, Ronny Gordon’s illustration in the Jerusalem Post transforms the pope’s headdress into a flame, about to be set alight by a box of matches marked “Middle East”.
 
 
Jerusalem Post (Israel)
 
Meanwhile, an article on the front page of Jerusalem Post criticises the pope’s visit to the Holocaust Memorial Vad Vashem, explaining this was no landmark or historic visit.  The paper describes Israel as disappointed by the fact that the pontiff did not apologise or show remorse for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
 
 
The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
 
Winter has come two months early in New Zealand, with parts of the North Island reporting 30 minutes of hail storms and deep snow.  In the town of Tauranga, some surfers got their boards out and surfed down the snow dunes.  
 

 

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