Official escapes rat poison label   

  

  

 

 
  
Light plane in emergency drama at reservoir 
Boy's Name Is 'Hell' for Catholic School 

Official escapes rat poison label 
  
A Chinese official ________(escape) efforts by a rat poison manufacturer to name its products after him, China's state media reported.
The company ________(apply) last month to call its range of pesticides and poisons after Zheng Xiaoyu, the sacked head of the State Food and Drug Administration. 
But the authorities _______(rule) on Tuesday that Mr Zheng, although under investigation, had a right to protect his name. 
China's Xinhua news agency _______(say) that the national trademark administrator ________(reject) the application. 
Xinhua suggested the application could have been caused by a personal dispute between the company and Mr Zheng, who ________(reportedly /rule) against one of its drugs in 1999. 
  
 Chinese worker abducted in Niger  
 
A rebel group in northern Niger ________(kidnap) a Chinese national working for a uranium company.
The man _______(capture) on Friday in the Ingall region, south of the town of Agadez. 
The Tuareg rebels from the Niger Movement for Justice (MNJ) ______________(demand)  that Chinese mining companies stop their activities in the desert region. China's embassy in Niger on Saturday _________(confirm) the abduction, but said the rebels had not yet been in contact. 

Blackberry to go on sale in China 
 
The Blackberry will be available in China from next month 
Research in Motion (RIM) ________(win) approval to sell its Blackberry handheld e-mail device in China - the world's largest mobile phone market.
The Canadian company ________(say) Beijing _________(gave) the green light to sell the handsets after an eight-year battle. 
The device _________(expect)  to be available in shops in the country from August, according to reports, with 5,000 advance orders already received. 
  
Light plane in emergency drama at Reservoir

 A small, single-engine plane ______________(make) an emergency landing on the Plover Cove Reservoir dam, after the aircraft ________(suffer) engine problems. Both people on board the aircraft __________(escape)  injury, and the plane itself ________(not /damage). The plane, from the Hong Kong Aviation Club, _______(be) on flying practice over the New Territories when the engine trouble _________(occurr) . The pilot immediately ________(inform) Air Traffic Control and ________(make) a successful emergency landing. The Civil Aviation Department will investigate the incident. 
  
Boy's Name Is 'Hell' for Catholic School 

Australian parents Alex and Linda Hell may reject an offer of a place for their son Max at a Catholic school in Australia after it ______(object) to enrolling the boy because of his name.  Officials ______(say) Max ________(offer) a place at the St. Peter the Apostle school in  Melbourne after discussions between the principal, the parish priest and the family over his name. But Alex Hell _____(say) he would rather send 5-year-old Max elsewhere. "We are the victims of our name," Hell said Monday. 

Neglect, tourism besiege Great Wall 
  
Chinese are proud a global poll ________(name) the Great Wall a wonder of the world, but some worry that tourism and neglect ________(destroy) the structure. 
"The Great Wall __________________(severely / damage) by visitors, and I am surprised that it can still be named as one of the new seven wonders of the world,"_______(say) Wang Xiaoyu, who ________________(visit) the wall at Badaling from nearby Beijing. 
Almost every brick in heavily touristed sections of the wall, such as Badaling, ________(carve) with people's names and other graffiti. 
The Great Wall _________(pick) in a worldwide online poll as one of the new seven wonders of the world. 

In recent years, China ________(step up) efforts to restore some parts of the wall, protect it from vandals and rein in commercial development around it. 
The earliest sections of the wall ________(build) more than 20 centuries ago to guard against Mongols and other invaders. Other sections _________(add) at later times.