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China Drive, Morning, 2008-12-30
    2008-12-30 15:54:12     CRIENGLISH.com
Broadcast Time: 11:00-12:00, 2008-12-30

           

  • Sightseers in Beijing will have more choices on their menu as the city plans to invest more in the tourism industry.
  • More foreign nationals have been attracted to China's most populous city - Shanghai - this year.
  • Fan Meizhong paid once more for his argument that there was nothing wrong with his flight from a classroom in the Sichuan quake, as a Beijing school which had decided to take him on was forced to delay employing him.
  • According to current regulation, Chinese citizens who pay pension premiums in one place can not draw money from another.

  • Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has denied he is in talks about a rescue bid for the Honda Formula One team.
  • The current head coach of the Russian diving team has been appointed British diving's national performance director.
  • Following the New York Jets' latest December collapse, the head coach once known as "Man-genius" is out of a job.
  • AC Milan midfielder David Beckham and the rest of the team could be targeted by terrorists when they travel to Dubai next week for the club's annual tour.


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  • Growth enterprise board may come 'at any moment'
  • Fast food chains hungry for expansion
  • Call from bank? It may be a scam
  • New Financial Investment Management for Chinese Middle Class

    

Discussions on "human flesh search engines"

The recent case of trying to find signs of corruption among certain officials through internet searching and the first verdict on a lawsuit related to internet searching on personal information have aroused much public attention. At the same time, the country's top legislature is considering law regulating the so-called "human flesh search" activity.

          

  • Actress Gong Li was excluded from the delegate list of the eighth national conference of the China Film Association, or CFA,
  • Sammi Cheng's three-year absence from Hong Kong cinema ends with the past weekend's release of a new comedy Lady Cop-Papa Crook, which also stars Alan Mak and Felix Chong.
  • Austria has designated 2009 as Haydn Year to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn.
  • India has launched its first unmanned lunar mission and is now gearing up for a manned space program to the moon. But before that happens, a man from Southern India is setting out to become the country's first space tourist.

 

 
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