Life & Culture -- October 22, 2005

• ADB to help control bird flu with grant projects
• Beijing's GDP growth rate 1.1 percentage points high than nation's
• Bird flu test on Indonesia father, son negative
• Chinese literary master Ba Jin's funeral to be held in Shanghai next week
• China enhances epidemic contingency response at ports

• Madrid runs out of flu vaccine due to bird flu panic
• More countries ban Brazilian beef in scare of foot-and-mouth disease
• No immediate threat of bird flu in Sri Lanka: minister
• Shanghai Port on full alert for bird flu
• Wuqiao International Acrobatics Festival to open