Hong Kong actress and singer Anita Mui appears at a Hong Kong hotel Monday, Sept. 22, 2003 to promote a concert she will be holding in Hong Kong. Mui disclosed earlier that she was suffering from cervic cancer.

A sumo referee smiles with a crying baby reaching out her arms to her mother during a baby crying contest at Koyasu shrine in Hachioji on the outskirts of Tokyo September 23, 2003.

Chinese school children pose near the Olympic rings during a ceremony to launch a cultural festival in relations to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2003. The Chinese capital is planning a marathon series of events and activities leading up to the high profile, multi-billion dollars sporting event.

A Chinese policeman keeps guard behind a flower sculpture decorated for the October 1 National Day on a Beijing street, September 22, 2003. Beijing gets ready to celebrate China's National Day on Oct. 1 by decorating its streets and major tourist venues. Hundreds of thousands of domestic travelers are expected during the week long holiday.

Residents stand in front of ruined houses at a village in the flood-hit Yongtai County in east China's Fujian Province Sunday, Sept. 21, 2003. Flooding caused by torrential rains late Saturday night killed at least seven people and left five others missing.

Archeologists measure the length of part of a Sauropod dinosaur fossil which was unearthed in Xidi Village, Jiutai City of northeast Chinas Jilin Province, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2003. The Sauropod fossil, which was discovered by local farmers when they leveled the land, is the first of its kind ever found in the province. Scientists presumed from the unearthed part of the fossil that the dinosaur might be about 10 meters long, dating back about 90 million to 100 million years.

A porcelain bowl decorated with Chinese paintings is displayed at the China Pottery and Porcelain Exposition in Tangshan, north China's Hebei Province, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2003. The bowl with its mouth reaching 21 inches in diameter was made of the powders of animal bones and was reported the largest of its kind in the world. Three senior craftsmen spent one month to finish it.

The first batch of passengers taking Shanghai's magnetic levitation train buit with German technology have a close look at the carriage at a metro station in Shanghai, China, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2003.

An elderly Chinese man looks at contents of a package containing "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" book and gameset during the launch of the Chinese version of the latest Harry Potter book in Beijing, China, Sunday, Sep 21, 2003. The series is wildly popular in China _ to the point where an entire fake Harry Potter story was written and published illegally here last year _ and counterfeiters here are known for their resourcefulness. The gameset based on the characters in the book were given out free with every purchase of the "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix".

A visitor looks at models of Chinese space rockets at Beijing's military museum Thursday Sept. 18, 2003. Chinese officials said Tuesday that preparations for China's first manned space flight - expected sometime later this year - are moving ahead "extremely smoothly." The launch would make China the third country, after the U.S. and Russia, to send a manned spacecraft.

An acrobat rides bicycle on the steel tightrope while his partner stunts somersault as the Henan Aerial Tightrope Riding Acrobatic Toupe stages a performance at the city's stadium of Tangshan City, in north China's Hebei Province, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2003.Acrobats from Tianjin City and Henan and Hebei provinces converge in Tangshan, staging their superior skills to highlight 2003 Arena Competition Challenging the Utmost of Guinness, an event sponsored by the China Office of the Organization of Guinness Book of World Records.

A mainland Chinese woman carries her child during a protest in Taipei against a government proposal to extend the time mainland Chinese spouses must wait to get Taiwan citizenship on September 20, 2003. Taiwan plans to make Chinese spouses wait 11 years to get identity cards, instead of the current eight years, a move the spouses say is unfair .

A Bangladeshi villager carrys his goat through floodwaters in the village of Uttar Ujirpur, near the northwestern town of Chapai Nawabganj, 325 km (203 miles) from Dhaka, on September 18, 2003. Nearly 300,000 people have been marooned and 200,000 others have been forced to seek shelter as floods spread across northwestern Bangladesh over the past week.

This photo taken on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2003 shows the charming night scene of Mulong Lake in Guilin, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. A new theme park will be opened during the coming National Day holidays in Mulong Lake scenic spot. Travelers will have another destination to choose during their visit in Guilin, one of China's most prestigious tourist attractions.

Tourists walk past a model of a section of the Three Gorges Dam in Beijing's Tiananmen Square Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2003. The square is being decorated in preparation for celebrations of China's National Day on Oct. 1. The dam on the Yangtze River, the world's largest hydro-electric project, went into operation earlier this year.