Broadcast Time: 17:00-19:00, 2008-10-22
 
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- Over 2,000 people in Beijing have signed up for a group home-buying activity that vows to gather 10,000 buyers and offer them reasonably-priced houses
- Chongming County mothers may soon be refusing to let their daughters marry taxi drivers.
- A hospital has sparked a major controversy after it ordered nurses to apply heavy make up before work in Dongguan, Guangdong province.
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Yao Ming feels he is 'unable to play for the national team anymore' and may quit next year, according to a report from the Shanghai-based Oriental Sports Daily on Monday that has shocked China's basketball circles.
Kobe Bryant injured his right knee in the second quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers' 102-98 win over the Charlotte Bobcats on Tuesday night and did not return to the preseason game.
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The Boston Celtics had one final piece of preseason business to take care of before turning their thoughts to the real games.
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Amare Stoudemire scored 21 points in his second game back from an eye injury.
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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo said he will miss Sunday's home game against Tampa Bay due to a broken pinkie finger on his throwing hand, and indicated he may not return until a November 16 game against Washington.
Are you planning to study overseas?
Are you one of the go-west army this year? What subject will you undertake while you are overseas and what do you plan to do when you graduate?
Warning encouraged to deal with minor breaches to traffic law
The Ministry of Public Security recently announced that traffic police are encouraged to use warnings to deal with minor breaches of the law rather than fines.
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- According to the latest report by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses, in the first three quarters this year, the average house prices in 70 big and medium cities increased by 8.5% compared to the same period last year.
- Shanghai'S retail sales in the first nine months expanded 17.4 percent to 334.9 billion yuan (US$49 billion), boosted by promotions during the Olympics and campaigns for World Expo, the Shanghai Statistics Bureau said today.
- China's top economic planning agency yesterday said it would raise the minimum purchase price for wheat by as much as 15.3 percent starting next year.
Civil servants go travelling during work time
A citizen from Dejiang County in Guizhou province found only one staff member was on duty in the county's Business Bureau when he arrived. He was told that the rest of the staff had gone travelling. Apparently, the county government had released a formal document requiring civil servants to take leave to travel.
- A press conference to promote the release of the music video for director Chen Kaige's biopic 'Mei Lanfang' kicked off in Mei Lanfang Grand Theatre in Beijing yesterday.
- A judge dismissed a charge of driving without a license against pop star Britney Spears today, after jurors said they could not reach a verdict and a prosecutor said he would not pursue a retrial.
- Viacom and CBS chairman Sumner Redstone has filed for divorce from his wife of five-plus years, Paula Redstone.
- 35 years after he recorded it, Elton John performed his classic double album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" in its entirety yesterday, in New York City.
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