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• People wearing protective masks walk on a street in Kobe in western Japan on May 16. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) [17:17 May 18 2009 ]
• Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman speaks as US President Barack Obama looks on Saturday in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama nominated Huntsman as the next US ambassador to China. (Photo: AFP) [07:21 May 18 2009 ]
• A staff member guards outside the inpatient department at Beijing Ditan Hospital, Beijing, China, May 17, 2009. (Photo: Xinhua/Xing Guangli) [16:00 May 17 2009 ]
• This handout picture from the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence on May 15 shows soldiers check destroyed military equipment from the Tamil Tiger guerrillas. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) [16:41 May 15 2009 ]
• Six people died in Guatemala City on Thursday when a Piper Azteca light aircraft, owned by Aeroservicios Company and heading for Belize, crashed upon its departure from Guatemala City's La Aurora airport.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) [14:37 May 15 2009 ]

• Photo: Xinhua [08:34 May 15 2009 ]
• Mexico's Health Ministry announced on Wednesday that the confirmed death toll from the A(H1N1) flu has risen to 60 and the total confirmed cases were 2,386. [14:11 May 14 2009 ]
• Photo: people.com.cn [01:49 May 14 2009 ]
• Chinese defense official blasts hacker accusation [01:41 May 14 2009 ]
• Photo taken on May 12, 2009 shows the Jinan Infectious Disease Hospital where a man surnamed Lv involved in a suspected case of A(H1N1) influenza receives treatment, in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province. [15:30 May 13 2009 ]

• Yang Yi, spokesman of the State Council's Taiwan Affairs Office speaks at a press conference in Beijing May 13, 2009. (Xinhuanet Photo) [14:12 May 13 2009 ]
• A girl holds a candle at Zijingshan Park in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province yesterday to commemorate the victims of the earthquake that struck Sichuan last year, leaving nearly 87,000 dead or missing. Photo: Xinhua [08:04 May 13 2009 ]
• Chinese President Hu Jintao places a white chrysanthemum in front of a commemorative wall of the earthquake, May 12, 2009. (Xinhua/Li Xueren) [17:33 May 12 2009 ]
• Chinese families and survivors gather Sunday amid the Beichuan rubble in southwest China's Sichuan Province ahead of the first anniversary of the quake. Photo: AFP [08:13 May 12 2009 ]
• Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang visited the Chengdu Infectious Disease Hospital, which accepted Chinese mainland's 1st confirmed A(H1N1) patient on May 11, 2009. [22:20 May 11 2009 ]

• Zhu Xiaoping (L), a senior official of Sichuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, answers questions from the media on May 11, 2009. [19:51 May 11 2009 ]
• A 30 -year-old man surnamed Bao who returned Saturday afternoon to Chengdu from St. Louis, Missourifrom has been confirmed the first case of the A (H1N1) on mainland. [12:10 May 11 2009 ]
• The old town area of Beichuan County in Sichuan Province conditionally reopened to the public yesterday, facilitating the local people to commence the anniversary memorial for those killed during last year’s earthquake. Photo: Xinhua [08:43 May 11 2009 ]
• Candles are lit and flowers are laid to mourn the dead before the anniversary of the May 12 earthquake. (Xinhua photo) [16:21 May 10 2009 ]
• Wang Qishan (C), Chen Deming (L) and Xie Xuren attend the Second China-European Union High Level Economic and Trade Dialog at the EU headquarters in Brussels, capital of Belgium, May 7, 2009. [08:40 May 08 2009 ]

• From L to R: Joe Biden, Hamid Karzai, Barack Obama, and Asif Ali Zardari at the White House, May 6, 2009 [09:39 May 07 2009 ]
• A medical staff member walks past ambulances carrying Mexican nationals in Shanghai, May 5, 2009.(Xinhua/Pei Xin) [09:09 May 06 2009 ]
• A cargo plane of China Southern Airlines ferrying the second load of China-donated relief supplies to help Mexico battle an outbreak of Influenza A(H1N1) landed at a Mexico City airport, May 4, 2009. (Xinhua/David de la paz) [23:55 May 05 2009 ]
• Journalists and TV crews wait yesterday behind a barrier at the entrance to Hong Kong’s Metropark Hotel as around 300 guests and staff remain quarantined inside. Photo: AFP [07:31 May 05 2009 ]
• Metropark Causeway Bay Hotel was isolated after the first A/H1N1 was confirmed in Hong Kong. [20:17 May 04 2009 ]