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Indian Hindu women smudge Vermillion on each other's faces on the concluding day of Durga Puja in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh October 5, 2003.

Tens of thousands of tourists visiting Tiananmen square near a giant portrait of Sun Yat-Sen, widely regarded as founding father of modern China, in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003. China celebrates its 54th National Day with a week long holiday during which millions of Chinese go on vacation within China. Hundreds of thousands are expected to visit the Chinese capital alone.

Urban residents whoop for their tortoises at a tortoises competition held in Fuzhou, capital of east China's Fujian Province, Oct. 3. More than 200 families participated in the competition with their tortoises.

A man shows the water diverted from Cetian Reservoir in north China's Shanxi Province into Guanting Reservoir in the suburb of Beijing Oct.2. The Ministry of Water Resources as saying it plans to divert 50 million cubic metres of water from Shanxi to Beijing, where the existing freshwater reserve can only offer a 10-month supply.

People visit the Three Gorges Dam along the Yangtze River Oct. 3. The dam which has become a popular tourism destination received more than 9,000 tourists Friday, hitting a record high since it started construction. The Three Gorges Dam along the Yangtze River was in operation Oct. 3. By Thursday midnight, four power generators of China's Three Gorges Project, the world's largest hydropower project, had generated a total of 2.8 billion kilowatts of electricity since the first generator began its operation.

An Artist "Logunov" from a Russian trigon group plays a trigon during an international art concert in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003. The Russian artists will perform in China's six cities including Beijing and Shanghai.

A Chinese man stands near a poster of China's space rockets and Chinese characters that reads, "Quietly anticipate the coming surprising moment" and "China's Shen Zhou will lift to the sky soon," at a model exposition in Beijing, China, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003. China's first manned spacecraft named Shen Zhou V could be launched as early as Oct from China's remote northwest and will probably contain one crew member.

A Chinese woman stands near a public information poster about AIDS in Beijing, China, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003. A Chinese website reported figures released by China's health ministry stating that 840,000 people were infected with AIDS and in the first half of this year alone, there was an increase of 20.3 percent in the number of infections.

China won't register in same-sex marriages
 

China is not prepared to register any marriage between people of the same sex, but will allow AIDS patients to marry if certain requirements for their marriage are met, a senior Chinese civil affairs official has said.

¡¡¡¡An adult male and female in love need only to provide their ID cards and residence booklets, and sign a statement that they are single and not related before registration, said Zhang Mingliang, director of the Department of Grassroots Government Units and Community Development under the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MOCA)Tuesday afternoon.

¡¡¡¡"Even a couple with infectious diseases or AIDS may marry if they so wish," Zhang said, adding that marriage is still prohibited for insane persons.

¡¡¡¡"Of course those people with epidemic diseases should receive medical treatment in accordance with relevant laws and regulations," Zhang said, "but the new regulations on marriage registration have no special restriction on marriage involving such people."

¡¡¡¡It is estimated that the number of AIDS patients in this, the world's most populous country had topped one million by the end of 2002.

¡¡¡¡China unveiled its new, and more relaxed regulations on marriage registration recenty. More about China Marry Law

The pic one famous China GAY movie, but it can not cast in China mainland.

Chinese teenager with punk hairstyle attending an alternative rock music festival in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003. Punk is a movement of disaffected youth of the late 1970s, manifesting itself in western fashions and music designed to shock or intimidate. As China opens itself to the world, cultural influences are finding expression in the youth of the communist country.

Female undergraduates from the Sungkyunwan University of the Republic of Korea (ROK) in ancient attires pose for a group photo in front of the Temple of Confucius while attending the commemoration of the 2,554th anniversary of the birth of Confucius, in Qufu, east China's Shandong Province, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2003. Some 30 female undergraduates and more than 10 professors of the Sungkyunwan University came to Qufu, the hometown of Confucius, to worship the ancient sage, visiting the relevant cultural relics and bringing in their own-choreographed dances to express their admirations.

Fireworks from Hong Kong team explode over Hong Kong harbor Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003, in the first round of the International Musical Firworks Competition that features teams from Hong Kong and Italy. The final round of the event, staged to attract tourists to Hong Kong, will take place on Oct 12 and will involve teams from the United States and Japan.