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Hangzhou drivers lose a day a week on roads
Starting from today, Hangzhou joins Beijing and Shanghai in curbing the number of cars on the road. Private vehicles with number plates ending in 1 or 9 will be barred every Monday from roads in busy areas during rush hours. Those ending in 2 or 8 will be restricted on Tuesdays, and so on. Beijing has had a similar scheme since the 2008 Olympic Games, and Shanghai allows only locally registered cars on main roads during rush hours.
15-kilometre swim in aid of cleaner oceans
Nearly 200 swimmers will jump into the water at Stanley Main Beach at 11am and brave 15 kilometres of open water in the fifth annual Ocean Recovery Alliance Clean Half marathon. The swimmers, from six countries, will wind up in Deepwater Bay. The Ocean Recovery Alliance is trying to raise public awareness about plastic waste in the ocean and to environmental problems in general.
Paratroopers to mark Double Tenth in Taiwan