Turning back to China, Liberation Army Daily and the Beijing News report that China successfully carried out a land-based, mid-course missile interception test at an undisclosed location within its borders, but says the test did not target any country.
One other report from Shanghai's China Business News says the World Bank has published a report on China's government-controlled business.
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China Daily and Beijing News report family members of a Japanese car owner who was attacked during an anti-Japan protest in northwest Xian city are suing local police for compensation, accusing the police of dereliction of duty.
BBC: China morning round-up: Nobel Literature Prize to China
China Central Television and Xinhua news agency report that an internal party watchdog in Chongqing has handed over a sex video case, which led to the sacking of 11 officials, to judicial departments.
China Central Television and The Beijing News report a return of moderate to severe air pollution in 74 cities due to bad weather and firework celebrations during the Chinese New Year holidays last week.
China Central Television, the front page of Liberation Army Daily and major news portals prominently report the foreign ministry's stance that China had taken unspecified but "legitimate and reasonable" actions against the boat.
The alliance agreement was signed on Friday, according to a report in the China Business News, a Chinese daily newspaper.
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Turning to international news, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman denies a Reuters news agency report that North Korea told China that it is prepared to carry out more nuclear tests, Xinhua reports.
Newspapers including the Chongqing Economic Times and China Daily published only a report by the official Xinhua News Agency in their inside pages, without further commentaries.
Internet users cheered the fleet for posting a New Year calligraphy couplet before setting sail that read: "Golden dragon soars and sweeps away Japanese devils", followed by "Silver snake dances vigorously to display might of China", Oriental Daily News and Haixia Dushi Bao report.
As a quick review (though we doubt that you need one), Hon Hai took legal action against China Business News' Wang You and Weng Boa following their report on the much-publicized working conditions at the Foxconn plant lovingly dubbed " iPod City, " asking for compensation amounting to many times the reporters' annual salaries and convincing a court to temporarily freeze their assets.
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National China Daily and People's Daily Overseas Edition report the news on the front page.
BBC: China morning round-up: Nobel Literature Prize to China
China was also the subject for an award-winning television news report by CBS News correspondent Holly Williams and cameraman Andrew Portch.
In 2004, China's state-run Beijing Evening News carried an Onion report that said the US Congress was threatening to move out of Washington unless a new Capitol was built.
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China's Defence Ministry immediately refuted a report on Monday by Japan's Kyodo news agency that said unnamed "senior Chinese military officials" admitting recently, and for the first time, that a Chinese warship did lock weapons-guiding radar on a Japanese destroyer on 30 January.
Xinhua news agency and other party-state media have called a US Department of Defence report on China's military modernisation and alleged state-sponsored military cyber-spying "groundless speculation" that could trigger an arms race in Asia.
Mr Wen's opening speech and final work report on policies over the last five years was broadcast live on China Central Television and on major news portals.
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