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• Health officials remove unidentified items from a quarantined hotel in Hong Kong yesterday. The hotel, where a Mexican man stayed before testing positive Friday for the A (H1N1) flu virus, has been isolated. (Photo: AFP) [07:23 May 04 2009 ]
• Patients showing symptoms of swine flu walk out of the isolation ward at a hospital in Mexico City, capital of Mexico, April 29, 2009. (Xinhua/Bao Feifei) [17:32 May 03 2009 ]
• People wear surgical masks in Mexico city, May 3, 2009. Jose Angel Cordova said on Saturday that until Friday night there have been 1,105 tests to detect the influenza A/H1N1, among which 443 in the country were positive.(Xinhua/AFP Photo) [12:03 May 03 2009 ]
• A safety and security manager in a Category 4 laboratory handles an uninfected blood sample used as a control against Influenza A. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) [09:07 May 02 2009 ]
• Chinese Premier Wen talks with workers as he visits a construction site of Beijing subway in Beijing, May 1, 2009. [08:46 May 02 2009 ]

• The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday confirmed a total of 257 human infections of swine flu, which were officially reported from 11 countries. [09:39 May 01 2009 ]
• Two girls walk out of the the Shanghai Pudong International Airport on April 30. (Photo: Xinhua) [17:52 April 30 2009 ]
• A Japanese mother and her children wear masks as they return home yesterday from a trip to Mexico City. The flight stopped in Vancouver, Canada, before arriving at Narita International Airport. (Photo: AFP) [10:25 April 30 2009 ]
• Chinese Premier holds talks with Japanese Prime Minister at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, April 29, 2009 [20:56 April 29 2009 ]
• Passengers wear protective masks as they ride Mexico's city subway April 28, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) [09:02 April 29 2009 ]

• Graphics shows the WHO raised its pandemic alert level from Phase 3 to Phase 4 on April 27, 2009, amid the rapid spread of swine flu in some countries. (Xinhua/Meng Lijing) [23:49 April 28 2009 ]
• Cristina Trejo, who works at the Mexicana airlines counter, wears a surgical mask with a butterfly painted by herself at Mexico City's international airport Benito Juarez [14:42 April 28 2009 ]
• People wearing masks gather outside buildings after an earthquake in Mexico City, captial of Mexico, April 27, 2009. [08:18 April 28 2009 ]
• A member of the animal disease department disinfects pigs at a farm in Hsichiou, Changhua county, in central Taiwan yesterday. (Photo: AFP) [07:53 April 28 2009 ]
• Mexicans wear masks to prevent swine flu in Mexico city, capital of Mexico, April 26, 2009.(Xinhua/David de la paz) [13:09 April 27 2009 ]

• A soldier wearing a mask stands guard outside the National Palace in Mexico City Saturday. [07:30 April 27 2009 ]
• Wang Yi meets with Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman Chiang Pin-kung in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, April 26, 2009. [22:09 April 26 2009 ]
• Chinese mainland's top negotiator on cross-straits relations Chen Yunlin held talks here with his Taiwan counterpart Chiang Pin-kung on Sunday morning. [10:09 April 26 2009 ]
• Zheng Lizhong (R), vice-president of the mainland's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS), shakes hands with Kao Koong Liann, vice chairman and secretary-general of Taiwan-based Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) [08:00 April 26 2009 ]
• A Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) naval vessel is seen during a naval parade of the PLA Navy warships and aircraft in waters off Qingdao.Photo: Xinhua [01:39 April 24 2009 ]

• A naval parade of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy warships and aircraft is held in waters off China's port city of Qingdao. [16:36 April 23 2009 ]
• U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the foreign policies of President Barack Obama administration in Washington, April 22, 2009. (Xinhua/Zhang Yan) [08:31 April 23 2009 ]
• Ocean Harmony not wishful thinking [07:41 April 23 2009 ]
• People pass by posters of presidential candidates in Johannesburg, April 21, 2009. South Africa will hold the general elections on Wednesday. (Xinhua/Xu Suhui) [08:21 April 22 2009 ]
• Zhang Yannong (center), president of the People's Daily, Wu Hengquan (right), editor-in-chief of the People's Daily, and Ambassador Serge Abou (left), head of Delegation of the European Commission, watch performances at the reception. [00:17 April 21 2009 ]