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China's Health Ministry begins a daily status report on influenza A/H1N1 starting Sunday.
The ministry will also report the condition of those who were in close contact with confirmed patients.
Meanwhile, China is imposing stringent checks on people entering the country by air, land and sea to prevent the spread of the virus.
China confirmed its first H1N1 case Friday in Hong Kong, a 25-year-old Mexican man who first arrived in Shanghai.
More than 100 passengers on the flight with the patient have been put into seven-day quarantine.

China asks WHO experts to join influenza-prevention team

In other developments, China's Ministry of Health will ask experts from the World Health Organization office in China to join a team for the prevention and control of influenza A/H1N1.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention will also hold regular meetings with WHO about technical issues.
Health officials have met with Hans Troedsson, WHO chief representative in China.
The WHO also promised to help China get A/H1N1 virus samples, to be used in developing vaccines and treatments.

WHO says raise to pandemic alert Phase 6 still possible

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization says the risk of a pandemic caused by the A/H1N1 virus is still very high and there is still the possibility to raise the alert level to Phase 6 from the current Phase 5.
A WHO official says currently the sustained spread of the virus is still confined to the region of North America.
According to a latest WHO update, the world's total number of lab confirmed A/H1N1 infections has increased to 658, with 16 countries being affected.
The WHO is sending more than 2 million treatment courses of antiviral drugs to 72 developing countries to help them prepare for a possible pandemic.

China's president asks students to embrace "patriotism, diligence"

President Hu Jintao has urged young Chinese to embrace "patriotism" and "devotion" to rejuvenate the Chinese nation.
The president visited Beijing-based China Agricultural University ahead of the Chinese Youth Day, which is Monday.
Concerned with the issue of graduate employment, Hu Jintao encouraged the students to voluntarily temper themselves at the grassroots level, and told the school to offer better service in helping them find jobs.

Death toll rises to 13 in east China fireworks explosion

Thirteen people have been killed and two others fatally injured in a fireworks explosion in east China's Shandong Province.
The explosion took place at an unlicensed fireworks processing factory in Qingyun County. Three rooms owned by a villager and rented for secret fireworks making were toppled.
Police have been hunting for the tenant.

Somali pirates have hijacked a Greek ship with 28 Ukrainian crew on board in the latest attacks on foreign vessels in the Indian Ocean.
A regional maritime official says the Malta-flagged MV Ariana was seized late Friday.
The incident came hours after a Portuguese warship thwarted an attack on a Norwegian vessel in the Gulf of Aden.

Former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan to contest presidential election

The Afghan-born American politician Zalmai Khalilzad is expected to contest the presidential race in his motherland scheduled for August 20, according to a local newspaper report.
The report says Khalilzad is expected to visit Kabul in the next few days to register his name as presidential candidate.
Khalilzad served as U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the United Nations over the past eight years.

Heat wave claims 78 lives in eastern India

The heat wave and soaring temperature since late April are believed to have claimed 78 lives in the eastern Indian state of Orissa.
Official figures put the death toll at 18.
In the past week, the mercury was above 45 degrees Celsius in several areas of Orissa.

India grounds Sukhoi 30 fighters after crash

India has grounded its premier front line fighter jets, the Sukhoi 30 MKIs, following the crash of such a plane on Thursday.
The Indian Air Force is now investigating all the three squadrons of the Sukhoi-30 fighters in the country.
India lost one of its best pilots Wing Commander P. S. Narah in the crash in western India.

Hollywood's summer season opens with new "X-men" film

And in entertainment news,
Hollywood's lucrative summer season opened this weekend in a happy mood as the latest "X-Men" film debuted in North America as the widest release in the franchise's history.
"X-Men Origins: Wolverine" took in 35 million U.S. dollars on Friday, easily out-earning the comedy "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past ".
More figures about top-grossing films over the weekend are expected Sunday.