Grade seven pupils at Mushentenke basic school in Kawambwa might not write their final examinations that start tomorrow.

This is because unknown people last night broke into the headmaster’s office and went away with a trunk containing all examinations papers for 2009 grade seven exams.

The trunk was later dumped 50 metres in the bush from the headmaster’s office but eight of the nine packs inside it had been tampered with.

Luapula province police commanding officer Auxensio Mbewe confirmed the development to ZANIS today.

Mr Mbewe said unknown people broke the door to the headmaster’s office at Mushentenke basic last night and took away a trunk containing nine packs of examination papers for different subjects.

He said later today the police recovered the trunk from the bush, 50 metres from the headmaster’s office.

He said the trunk was opened and o eight out of nine packs of examinations papers were tampered with.

The commanding officer said the trunk of the tampered examination papers has since been transported to the district education board secretary’s office, waiting for a decision from the Examination Council of Zambia (ECZ).

Grade seven pupils across the country are supposed to start writing their grade 8 qualifying examinations tomorrow.

The Asian giant has been at the forefront of international efforts to produce an A(H1N1) influenza vaccine, with at least five companies receiving government approval for the work. Officials however have warned demand will exceed supply.

The capital's municipal health bureau announced Monday in a statement on its website that Beijing "took the lead in China in starting A(H1N1) flu vaccinations".

Authorities kicked off the programme by immunising students due to take part in next week's National Day celebrations, the statement said. Around 100,000 students are due to attend, according to recent state media reports.

"We believe that China is the first country in the world to start mass vaccinations for A(H1N1) flu," Vivian Tan, spokeswoman for the World Health Organisation in China, told AFP.

The health ministry has said it plans to vaccinate 65 million people, or five percent of the country's total population of 1.3 billion, before year's end.

A total of 500 medical workers in nearly 50 teams have been mobilised to go to schools across Beijing to give the students their shots, which are free and voluntary, the health bureau reported.

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A young Programmer and his Project Manager board a train headed through
the mountains on its way to Wichita. They can find no place to sit
except for two seats right across the aisle from a young woman and her
grandmother. After a while, it is obvious that the young woman and the
young programmer are interested in each other, because they are giving
each other looks. Soon the train passes into a tunnel and it is pitch
black. There is a sound of a kiss followed by the sound of a slap.

When the train emerges from the tunnel, the four sit there without
saying a word. The grandmother is thinking to herself, “It was very
brash for that young man to kiss my granddaughter, but I’m glad she
slapped him.”

The Project manager is sitting there thinking, “I didn’t know the young
tech was brave enough to kiss the girl, but I sure wish she hadn’t
missed him when she slapped me!”