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- Six sailors remained missing after nine were saved from a Panamanian vessel that capsized near eastern China's Nanji Islands.
- The first batch of bicycles with safety chairs on the back are ready for rental in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province.
- An artist stunned tourists at Sanshui Lotus World in Foshan by writing calligraphy with his eyes.
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Chinese basketball star Sun Yue will miss the first training camp sessions with the Los Angeles Lakers because of mono-nucleosis.
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Is golf, new FedEx Cup champion Vijay Singh has decided to give himself a two-month break from competitive action in order to give his body a rest.
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In football, a 67th minute goal from Villarreal midfielder Marcos Senna gave his side a tight but well deserved victory over Scottish Champions Celtic in their Champions League group match last night.
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Staying with football, it's been announced that Berlin will hold the opener of the women's World Cup in 2011 and Frankfurt will host the final.
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To Shanghai, and world snooker champion Ronnie O'Sullivan booked his place in the last 16 of the Shanghai Masters with a win over Stuart Pettman.
Bug Bear
In work or life, we are sure to encounter many distractions, whether coming from the environment or simply too many pressures from inside. Some people have the ability to tune out from those unpleasant surroundings. How good are you in resisting those distractions in work or life, what's the biggest nuisance in life at the moment for you?
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- China's sixth largest lender, China Merchants Bank, or CMB, announced on Tuesday that it had completed the 17 billion yuan, or 2.48 billion U.S. dollar, purchase of 53.12 percent of equity in Wing Lung Bank.
- MidAmerican Energy Holdings said it would pay 230 million US dollars for a 10 percent stake in Chinese rechargeable battery firm BYD to support its 'green' technologies.
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group said earlier this week it will buy a 21 percent stake in the second-largest U.S. brokerage firm, Morgan Stanley, for 9 billion US dollars.

National Day Special: Lu Yanyao's Olympics
It's over a month since the Olympic Games came to a close in Beijing. But for many Chinese who experienced the grand event, the scenes are still alive in their memories. Our reporter Li Dong interviewed Lu Yanyao, a Chinese member of the public, to share in her story of the Beijing Olympics.
 
The National Day holiday is the first week-long holiday of the year after the Spring Festival in February. So people attach great importance and value to this long-anticipated holiday. At the same time, questions as to "how to spend the golden week holiday" or "what the holiday should be like" arise once again.
(Page Editor: Yang Yong)
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