Broadcast Time: 11:00-12:00, 2008-12-12
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- Railway stations across China expect to handle a record 188 million passengers heading home to family for the Lunar New Year holidays, according to the Ministry of Railways.
- China's Civil Aviation Administration is preparing for the commencement of direct flights between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan, which are set to begin next Monday.
- A 21-day suspension of live poultry shipments from Guangdong Province to neibouring Hong Kong has been imposed for fear of deadly avian flu spreading.
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Star Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang has undergone his first post-operation check-up on his right foot and is expected to make a full recovery.
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Former tennis champion Lindsay Davenport has signalled a return to the WTA Tour by entering next year's Australian Open.
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Still with tennis, and Jelena Jankovic is determined to lose the tag of being the only WTA world number one never to have won a Grand Slam title when she gets to Melbourne.
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Former Olympic shooting champion Sergei Alifirenko has been banned for two years for failing a drug test, according to the Russian shooting union the SSR.
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In Formula One motor racing, the Force India team boss Vijay Mallya says he has yet to finalise his driver line-up for the 2009 season.
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Austria Krampus
Explanation on the current fuel taxation system
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- China's consumer price index, the main gauge of inflation, rose at a slowing annual rate of 2.4 percent in November, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
- China's restaurants are feeling the chill of recession. Beijing's high-end eateries, which depend on group reservations and banquets for business are starting to notice the world recession.
- Sony's long awaited next-gen social networking site for PlayStation users has gone online in open beta mode, the phase where it can be tested by the public.
- Serious-minded films dominated nominations for the 66th annual Golden Globe Awards, which were announced yesterday in a Beverly Hills hotel by organizer the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
- The Golden Globes ceremony on January 11th has been spared from getting tanglid up with the Screen Actor Guild's strike authorization voting. But the Oscars may be affected.
- Desperate Housewives might go all the way to 2013, despite an earlier decision for the show to end.
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.
Are You Worried about Unemployment?
As economic crisis deepens, some companies are laying off employess. Many white-collar workers are worried about losing their jobs, the more serious ones even turn to psychologists for advise.
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