Broadcast Time: 11:00-12:00, 2008-12-17
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- China's outbound tourism activity is looking up with the New Year's Day and the Spring Festival approaching.
- The Taiwan-based EVA Air, entrusted by the island's authority to ship two giant pandas from the mainland, says its panda charter plane will leave on Monday and get back to the island on Tuesday.
- Nearly 380,000 birds were culled after the deadly strain of H5N1 avian flu was found in east China's Jiangsu Province.
- As the global economic downturn begins to bite, at least three in four Chinese are placing high emphasis on saving, according to a survey published yesterday.
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Bob Burnquist, the world number one skater in skateboarding has become the most sponsored athlete in the world.
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The gold medal that the Mexican Under 17 soccer team won at the 2005 World Cup was stolen yesterday.
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Former Houston Rocket NBA player Cuttino Mobley has been forced to retire due to a heart disease condition that may have worsened.
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Subaru have become the latest team to withdraw from next year's World Rally Championship as the economic downturn continues to hit motorsport hard.
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Andy Murray says he would like to open his own sports academy in the future.
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In cricket, the India chairman of selectors has had talks with Rahul Dravid about the veteran batsman's poor recent form.
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Tepid Collection Market in Economic Recession
3G licenses to be issued
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- China will continue to face pressure to cut interest rates until the beginning of next year.
- China has approved the establishment of a tax free area in the country's south western Chongqing Municipality in an effort to boost the opening and development of its central and western regions.
- Troubled electrical retailer 'Gome' may offload part of its stake to outside investors to shore up its cash flow and counter the retail market slowdown.
- Citibank opened its first lending company on the Chinese mainland yesterday to offer loan services to the country's rural areas.
- Film director Chen Kaige's latest film, 'Forever Enthralled', a biopic of the late Peking opera master Mei Lanfang, has enjoyed a successful time at the box office since its premiere earlier this month.
- Taiwan model-turned actress Lin Chi-Ling will have her wax figure displayed at the Madame Tussauds museum in Hong Kong.
- A collection of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken for Vogue magazine the year she died has been auctioned in New York for nearly 150,000 US dollars.
Cash vouchers to stimulate domestic demand
Nobel laureate in economics and "Father of the Euro" Robert Mundell has suggested that the Chinese government should issue every Chinese citizen a 100 yuan cash voucher to help stimulate domestic consumption and confidence.
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