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Broadcast Time: 17:00-19:00, 2008-12-11
 
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- Workers across China will enjoy a supersized break in October under the 2009 holiday schedule announced yesterday by the State Council.
- Application for new patents in China have increased hugely and will pass Japan, the current leader in new patents, by 2012, according to a report released yesterday by Thomson Reuters Scientific.
- The Chinese Ministry of Railways says ticket price for the 2009 Spring Festival travel season won't be increased.
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Pau Gasol scored 28 points, Kobe Bryant had seven of his 18 points in the last 6 1/2 minutes, and the Los Angeles Lakers struggled to a 115-110 victory over the short-handed Phoenix Suns.
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Al Harrington scored a season-high 39 points, fellow New Jersey high school star Tim Thomas also had his best game of the season, and New York rallied to beat the Nets 121-109.
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John Daly smashed a spectator's camera into a tree while shooting a 6-over 78 in the first round of the Australian Open on Thursday, making it likely he will miss the cut for the third consecutive week Down Under.
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Defending champion Manchester United, Bayern Munich, FC Porto and Juventus finished at the top of their Champions League groups yesterday, making them seeded teams for the knockout round ahead of next week's draw.
The Battle of Sexes
It seems men and women always fail to understand each other sometimes. Ask a man, he will tell you he never understands what women thinks; and ask a woman, she will say she never figures out about men. Who is harder to figure out in your opinion? Men or women?
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- CONTRARY to the expectations of some industry analysts, rents and sale prices for high-end apartments in Shanghai are not immune to a global financial crunch as they fell rather sharply last month, according to latest data by Centaline China, one of the city's property agencies.
- Chinese exports registered their largest drop in nearly a decade last month, suggesting that the global recession could be far worse than many economists had previously predicted.
- CHINA'S consumer prices increased 2.4 percent last month from a year ago, its slowest pace in nearly two years, the National Bureau of Statistics said today.
- A star-studded cast including Kung Fu star Donnie Yen Chi-Tan attended the world premiere of the Hong Kong martial arts biopic 'Ip Man' in the Exhibition Theater in Beijing Wednesday night.
- The upcoming Hollywood adaptation of the popular comic book "Dragon Ball" released a trailer and promotional posters featuring the lead actors on Wednesday.
- Jim Carrey arrived at the world premiere of his new film 'Yes Man' in a double-decker bus last night.
More low rent houses to be built for low income people
Recently, Hebei, Liaoning, Shandong and other provinces have stopped building low cost housing. Shijiazhuang and Jining are two cities which plan to reduce subsidised housing and apply the same standards and conditions to all available housing.
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