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Focuses on the book 'The Tiananmen Papers,' by Andrew Nathan and Perry Link. Claims made by the authors that the book is an account of the Tiananmen Square massacre of student protesters from the Chinese government's perspective; Possibility that Chinese officials were willing to have a dialogue with student protesters.

This article reports on the naming of products after Chinese stars. A brand of sanitary pads has been named after Yao Ming. The singer Ai Dai, whose name means "love to wear" in Mandarin, has a line of condoms named after her. She is taking legal action against the company.

The article reports that Chinese trains are so crowded in the days leading up to the Chinese New Year that some people have taken to wearing adult diapers because they can't reach the on-board toilets. Some supermarkets claim that sales of adult diapers jumped 50 per cent in the days leading up to the festival. Train trips in China can take as long as 30 hours.