• A new report shows that grandparents are playing a greater role in raising children in China's big cities.

• The Chinese-made regional jet, the Modern Ark MA60 was made its maiden domestic commercial flight in the northern port city of Tianjin yesterday.

• Hong Kong Customs officers have seized the largest single sea-borne consignment of goods ever recovered. The haul amounts to 180 million yuan – around 26 million US dollars and follows the arrest of three people over the past few days, according to Hong Kong Customs.

• An 8-year-old boy in Dongguang, Guangdong province has lived with a giant snake for more than seven years, according to local reports.

• Huaxi-Introduction to the Village

• China's gross domestic product grew 9.9 percent year on year to 20.163 trillion yuan – around 3 trillion U.S. dollars - in the first three quarters of this year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics in a report out this morning.

• Beijing enterprises could get a government bonus ranging from 500,000 yuan, almost 75,000 US dollars, or as much as 2.3 million yuan, for ceasing high-pollution production, according to the city's finance bureau.

• China's largest open-pit coal mine in Haerwusu in northern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region is set to start production, according to the Shenhua Zhungeer Energy Company.

• Internet giant Google has bucked the credit crunch by posting a rise in profits.

• 3D Anatomy Software Developed in India

  

Taking Turns to Be the Head of Bureau

A debatable regulation allowing staff members to take turns as the bureau chief has been instated in Qujing, Yunnan province. The act has brought heated discussion.

• Wahlberg's action flick "Max Payne" debuted with $18 million to outdo Oliver Stone's film biography of George W. Bush, according to studio estimates Sunday.

• Yoko Ono, John Lennon's widow, is perhaps most famous for her association with John Lennon. But outside their marriage, she is a first-class artist in her own right.