Beijing, Septmeber 29. Health officials on Thursday denied South Korean news reports of a plague outbreak in China's Sichuan province, but acknowledged the populous southwest region was battling cholera. "I promise with the heart of a communist that there is no plague in Sichuan", provincial health bureau chief Zhang Jun told Reuters by telephone from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu. "We do have a problem with cholera here in Sichuan but there is no plague", he said. (EuroTibet News N·3)