China Drive, Morning, Broadcast Time: 11:00-12:00, 2009-01-02

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Topic of the Day

• Are you a planner?
  Do you have a plan when implementing your goals? How much preparation is devoted to make sure things go right? Or maybe you never plan and just let things develop by their own. Tell us your way of doing things, to plan carefully or go with the flow?
  

 Life Style

• On the first day of the New Year, most China Mobile users received a SMS from the national dairy association, apologizing for the tainted milk-powder scandal that shocked the whole nation last year.
• Passenger trains between Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Vietnam began regular daily services on Thursday.
• Dawning 5000A, a China-made supercomputer, is expected to be installed in Shanghai in April.
• [Special Report] Food Review

 Sports

• The Beijing Olympic Games has been voted as having the Best Press Facility of 2008 in a poll by the International Sports Press Association, or ISPA.
• The caretaker coach of the Chinese national team Yin Tiesheng has been forced to modify his training plan amid fears that cold could cause more trouble after five players came down with the affliction.
• To tennis, and Andy Murray began his final preparation for the 2009 ATP season with victory over American James Blake in Abu Dhabi, setting up a clash with Roger Federer.
• In golf, John Daly has claimed he is serving a six-month ban from the PGA Tour for conduct detrimental to golf's image.

 Business

• Chinese textile firms' profits declined for the first time in ten years as a result of reduced overseas demands.
• A higher value-added tax, or VAT, on 82 mineral products came into effect on Thursday.
• The State Council has agreed to start issuing licenses to mobile phone operators for third-generation high-speed networks, better known as 3G.
• [Special Report] Gold investment become hot in China

 Media Spin

• Battle against poverty
  The government recently cancelled the standard 786 yuan per annum poverty line for destitute villagers and adopted 1,067 yuan as the new yardstick to measure poverty. The new poverty line adopted by the government has increased the number of people living in poverty in China to 43.2 million.

 Entertainment

• The Vienna Philharmonic's annual New Year's concert yesterday commemorated the 200th anniversary of the death of Austrian composer Joseph Haydn.
• It has been claimed that Michael Jackson has a potentially deadly genetic disease.
• Hollywood actor Matt Dillon was arrested and charged with driving at an excessive speed after police clocked him travelling at 106 miles per hour on an interstate highway.