BEIJING, Aug 27, 2007 (AFP) - Nearly 10,000 fish have died in rivers at China's old Summer Palace, highlighting the environmental woes facing Beijing as it strives to clean up ahead of the 2008 Olympics, state press said Monday.

The fish were found floating in the river at Yuanmingyuan Park over the weekend and, while the waterway has a foul stench, the exact cause of the pollution that killed them is not yet known, the Xinhua news agency said.

BEIJING, Aug 15, 2007 (AFP) - The number of daily flights at Beijing airport will be cut by nearly 400 in an effort to deal with the long delays and other problems at the increasingly crowded hub, aviation authorities said Wednesday.

The cut comes a year away from the 2008 Olympic Games in the Chinese capital, as authorities try to cope with a massive boom in transport that has accompanied the country's meteoric economic rise.

BEIJING, Aug 15, 2007 (AFP) - The number of daily flights at Beijing airport will be cut by nearly 400 in an effort to deal with long delays and other problems at the increasingly crowded hub, aviation authorities said Wednesday.

The General Administration of Civil Aviation of China said it had ordered Beijing airport to cut daily domestic flights by 336 to 1,050 by the end of October, and the number must fall to 1,000 by March next year.

New applications for domestic aviation licenses will also not be accepted before 2010, the administration said on its website.