[Metro & Sports]

• China's central bank said it would ensure a "reasonable and steady" increase in bank loans this year to support the country's economic growth amid the worsening global financial crisis.
• China's new yuan loans reached 1.1 trillion yuan ($161 billion) in February thanks to the rapidly increasing government spending in infrastructure to hold back the economic slowdown, according to a source.
• Sanlu Group, a Chinese dairy company at the centre of a milk contamination scandal, will go up for auction at a court in the capital of north China's Hebei Province.
• Carl Landry matched a career high with 22 points, Luis Scola added 20 points and 16 rebounds and the Houston Rockets extended their home-court winning streak to 10 games with a 107-97 victory over the Toronto Raptors .
• Switzerland hasn't won the Davis Cup in 79 attempts. It sure won't get any easier without Roger Federer.
• The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan sent shock waves around the sporting world and raised fears about the future of international cricket matches, including the 2011 World Cup, in Pakistan.

[China Champion] Ji Ji

From becoming a mountaineer 20 years ago to carrying the Olympic flame to the world's highest summit, it all seems like destiny for Ji Ji.

[Tour Tips] Living in Tibetan Fmaily

It has been ten days since our reporters Chenzhe and Liao Jibo went to Tibet. We though they should have missed home now, but it seems we were wrong. As Liao Jibo says, the Tibetan people's homes are always open to them. Let's listen to his experience in a Tibetan family in Lhasa, capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region.

[Cultural Treasures] Project "Visionary Filmmakers" Helps Develop Chinese Documentaries

A project named "Eye on China: Visionary Filmmakers" is underway to highlight the Chinese documentary industry. Held jointly by Discovery and China Education Television-3, this project helps boost the development of Chinese documentaries.

[Strange News]

• A bus driver thought it would be funny to take the bite out of McGruff the crime dog by punching the Washington, D.C., mascot.
• Chicago police a 14-year-old boy who posed as an officer drove a patrol car and aided in an arrest and seven officers face disciplinary reviews for the "lax" behaviour that allowed the teen's escapade to happen.
• Authorities say a Florida woman called 911 three times after McDonald's employees told her they were out of Chicken McNuggets.
• A university in Liverpool has launched a Master of Arts degree in The Beatles, the city's most famous sons, and called the qualification the first of its kind.

[Showbiz News]

• China's Ministry of Culture said it did not ban British rock & roll band Oasis from giving concerts in the country.
• Irish rock band U2 had a 1987 hit with their song "Where the streets have no name," but on Tuesday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg temporarily renamed a Manhattan street in their honor.
• Preliminary Nielsen ratings give NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" a decisive, if predictable, win in its debut.
• Michael Jackson was due to make a "special announcement" at a London music venue this week �� expected to be confirmation of his first live concerts in years.
  

[Real China] Yang Jia on Education - Part One

Today is the second day of the Second Session of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. During the nine day conference, we will invite CPPCC member and professor Yang Jia from the Chinese Academy of Sciences to talk about China's medium and long-term education reform and development. In today's show, Yang Jia will discuss whether we should cancel the current curriculum system where students have to choose either science or art in senior middle school.

[Interview] Qustion list for William Lindesay, founder of the International Friends of the Great Wall

William Lindesay has lived in China for 15 years and has spent "more than 800 days on the Great Wall." He recounted his 2,470-km solo adventure in the book "Alone on the Great Wall".