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China Drive Evening 2008-10-14
    2008-10-14 18:09:39     CRIENGLISH.com
Broadcast Time: 11:00-12:00, 2008-10-14

        
     

  • With a looming global financial crisis aggravating the difficulties posed by a fierce job market, many consider the future for China's fresh college graduates to be bleak.
  • Following on from the Internet shopping phenomenon, people in a South China city are now trading their ideas online.
  • Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki lost a diamond ring at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport and hopes anyone who picked it up will contact her through e-mail.

  • B.J. Upton, Evan Longoria and the rest of the Tampa Bay Rays are bashing their way through their first trip to the playoffs.
  • Shane Victorino and much-travelled pinch-hitter Matt Stairs of Fredericton hit two-run homers off two of Los Angeles' most reliable relievers in the eighth inning Monday night, lifting the Phillies to a 7-5 victory over the Dodgers and a 3-1 lead in the NLCS.
  • Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo has a broken finger on his throwing hand and could be out for up to four weeks.
  • THE National Basketball Association is laying off 9 percent of its workforce over worries about the US economy, but is looking to expand operations in China, commissioner David Stern said.


Can you resist temptations?

There're many temptations in life: wine, cigarette, chocolate, junk food, TV games, etc. They're so tempting that sometimes we forget about our deteriorating health, expanding waistline, and an imminent deadline at work. Are you good at resisting these temptations? What do you do to resist them? 

 

 


 

 

 

 

  •  It's been announced within the last hour that the Bush administration plans to spend an initial $250 billion of the $700 billion bailout, buying stock in private banks. 
  • And financial markets in Asia have risen sharply for the second day running, with the Nikkei gaining 13% in morning trading, and Sydney up 5%.
  • China's consumer confidence index shrank slightly in the third quarter amid the global financial turmoil.
  • And China's domestic steel prices plummeted by an average of 12 percent between October 6th and October 10th. That is the biggest single-week decline since the year 2000, according to the China Securities Journal.
  • Deposit Insurance Scheme

Non-State enterprises may sue oil giants

Figures show that at the beginning of 2008, two thirds of non-state-owned wholesale enterprises collapsed, and one third of gas stations went bankrupt, with more than 10,000 stations suffering losses and tens of thousands of staff laid off. Non-state-owned oil trading enterprises plan to sue two oil giants to break the oil monopoly, say sources familiar with the matter at an oil summit on October 13th

 

  • Movie to Debut on Nov. 5 in China
  • Former England football captain David Beckham and his pop star wife Victoria's housekeepers have been arrested and accused of stealing valuables from the couple's "Beckingham Palace" mansion.
  • Angelina Jolie isn't giving away who she's backing in the U.S. presidential election, but she does have good things to say about Barack Obama.

(Page Editor: Yang Yong)

 

 
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