103
BY September 6, at least 103 people on the Chinese mainland had been killed by last week¡¯s Typhoon Talim, with another 26 still missing. In the most seriously affected province, Anhui, a total of 67 people were confirmed dead. Talim landed in coastal Fujian Province on September 1. It weakened to a tropical storm later that day but continued to dump torrential rain on inland areas. Flooding, landslides and mud flows were reported in a vast swath of central and southeastern China, including the provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Hubei as well as Anhui.

40.6%
BEIJING is seeing rapid spread of AIDS, at an annual rate of 40.6 per cent. By the end of July this year, Beijing hospitals had cumulatively reported 2,515 cases of HIV infection and AIDS cases, among which 365 cases were new reports this year. Among the new cases, 65 were of local people, 275 from other regions of China, 11 foreigners, and 14 unspecified.

3/4
THREE quarters of Taiwan people working on the Chinese mainland intended to prolong their stay even into retirement, according to a recent survey conducted by Nanjing University among some 500 randomly selected Taiwan people. According to the survey, about 90 per cent of the Taiwan people working on the mainland are considering or have already decided to stay for a long time. People with higher positions have a stronger intent to remain. Almost all the Taiwan bosses who participated in the survey ?those owning their own business ?intended to stay for a long time. About 87 per cent of the interviewees had bought or planned to buy houses on the mainland.