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• Metro
  
  India and China yesterday signed a broad agreement to work together in fighting climate change and the nations underlined their shared position on contentious talks seeking a new global climate deal.
  
  A $120 billion fund that will offer loans to Southeast Asian countries in economic straits will be ready as early as the end of the year, Chinese officials said in Beijing yesterday.
  
  A total of 130,000 graduates from Chinese universities and colleges are expected to join the army this winter, a record number in the country that wants to uplift the quality of servicemen while grappling with job crisis.
  
  Five groups of people in Beijing are entitled to receive the free inoculations against the A/H1N1 virus.
  
  
• Sports
  
  Yao Restaurant, which gets its fame from people believing it is connected with Chinese NBA star Yao Ming, closed last Friday, leaving dozens of unpaid, stunned employees standing around outside.
  
  Brazilian Alexandre Pato scored twice as AC Milan stunned Real Madrid 3-2 in a thriller at the Bernabeu to get their Champions League Group C challenge back on track.
  

[China's Champion]  Xia Xiaohua and her affection for Dongbei Dagu

• In northeast China, a folk-vocal art form has entertained local people for years. It is called Dongbei big drum or Dongbei Dagu in Chinese. The name originates from the performers usually beating a drum as they sing. Dongbei Dagu was once very popular in rural areas, but is now facing a decline in popularity.

[Cultural Voyage] Boys & Girls Choir of Harlem Alumni Ensemble

• The Boys & Girls Choir of the Harlem Alumni Ensemble from America is one of the national treasures of the United States. In 2009 they were invited to participate in Barrack Obama's inaugural ceremony.
  
  
• Now the choir is touring China and has given an amazing performance at the 11th Shanghai International Arts Festival. China Now's reporter Yingying just got the chance to talk with some members of the choir in Shanghai.
  

[Showbiz News]

• Japan's popular cartoon character, Astro Boy, is set to return to the limelight as gloriously as the Transformers did months ago.
  
  
• Matt Damon's stepsister was stunned when she landed an audition for the Hollywood star's new movie - and was told she'd be playing his lover.
  
  
• Black Sabbath star Ozzy Osbourne is set to join Metallica for the rockers' upcoming concert in New York to celebrate 25 years of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
  
  
• Whitney Houston married her ex-husband Bobby Brown to end speculation about her sexuality, according to her former partner.

[Strange News]

• A man in Qingdao, Shandong province, had to be rushed to a hospital after he shampooed his head with a pesticide.
  
  
• A woman addicted to computer games was forced to seek police help after her husband threw her out of their house in Minquan county, Henan province, on Sunday.
  
  
• Three tourists were injured when two donkeys fought with each other at a scenic spot in Beijing last Wednesday.
  
  
• A farmer from Zitong country in Sichuan province who used another man's personal information to get married some nine years ago learned only last Thursday that his marriage to his wife was illegal.
  

[Real China] Modernized Kazak Family in Xinjiang

• The Kazak ethnic group in Xinjiang is famous for its nomadic lifestyle, galloping across mountains and grasslands, living a free and ancient life. However, nowadays an increasing number of them are dismounting from their horses as their lifestyle gradually modernizes.