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But Zhang emphatically rejected these bad omens surrounding number eight.
 
"That's only superstition. When one portrays accidental events as inevitable, that's a form of superstition, isn't it?" the university student said.
 
Registration for weddings on August 8 opened on June 20, and will last until August 5 in registry offices as well as on the Internet, to avoid any last minute scrambles.
 
"More than 100 people have registered so far, which is more than usual," said Zhao Yongfu, an official at the registry office, where the Chinese characters of "double happiness" hung on the walls.
 
Around the country, thousands of people are also planning to get married on August 8, with China's press carrying countless articles on the phenomenon.
 
Zhang and Ma's special day also carried an additional meaning for them, as they are both volunteers for the first ever Olympic Games organised in China.
 
"Our work during the Games mainly involves welcoming the foreign sports delegations and to look after their living arrangements and daily needs," Zhang said.
 
The young couple said they would spare a few hours of their busy volunteering schedule on the eighth to get married, but the party would have to wait.
 
"The eighth of August is only the date to get our marriage certificate," Zhang said.
 
"Our wedding ceremony, however, will not be this basic. We will organise it in 2009, but we must first devote all our efforts to the Olympic Games.
 
"The eighth of August 2008 will be a lucky day. And the Olympic Games will be successful, and we are very proud of the event."
 
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AFP/ANP/File Photo: Dutch truck drivers block the A4 highway near Nieuw-Vennep during a fuel protest in June...
 
A 10-year-old boy was given a fine for driving a large delivery truck on a public road in the Netherlands, police said Friday.
 
"Two officers on patrol saw the truck driving on a parallel road, and noticed that the driver clearly wasn't 18," Tessel Horsman, a police spokeswoman in The Hague, told AFP.
 
"They pulled the truck over to check the identity of the driver, and discovered it was a 10-year-old boy."
 
It transpired the child was driving the truck, "a large one", on a public road in the southern town of Honselersdijk, with his father shouting instructions from the road.
 
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