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China Drive, Afternoon, 2008-12-23
    2008-12-23 20:46:26     CRIENGLISH.com

Broadcast Time: 17:00-19:00, 2008-12-23

  

  • China is likely to establish a standard social security number system across the nation by using each citizen's current identification card number.
  • The forestry police station at Badaling in Beijing's rural Yanqing County confirmed in an interview with Xinhua Tuesday they had received a digital image of a wolf-like animal allegedly shot by a villager last Friday. But police did not name the photographer.
  • Songyuan, a key petrochemical city in northeast China's Jilin Province, has vowed to create jobs next year.

  • We begin with Eurepean football, and Real Madrid have paraded Lassana Diarra after he passed a medical and prepared to seal a ?20m switch from Portsmouth.
    In NFL, the New York Giants and Tennessee Titans both won to secure home field advantage throughout the play-offs.
  • In cricket, New Zealand and the West Indies had to settle for in a draw in the second Test - and the series - after a promising run chase faltered in Napier.
  • In motor sport, McLaren team boss Ron Dennis is confident North America will be back on the Formula One calendar "within the next three years".

    

  • China retail sales surpasses 10 trln yuan yearly mark for first time
  • Sumsung ordered to pay 50 mln yuan for patent infringement
  • Sina and Focus seal US$1.3b ad deal

   

  • Director John Woo plans to turn his new film '1949' into an 'oriental Titanic', cast member Mark Cheng has revealed.
  • Ruby Lin is looking to lose her single status as soon as possible.
  • A spokesman for Michael Jackson released a statement on Monday denying as a "total fabrication" a report claiming that the former King of Pop needs a lung transplant due to a rare respiratory disease.

    

Lower Housing Price

The central governmental this week released now policies to encourge the healthy development of the real-estate industry.

What haven't You Done?

What haven't you done you set out to do this year; and is there still time to do it before the end of the year?

 
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