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[Metro & Sports]

• Environmental protection officials yesterday urged local governments to ward off heavy-metal pollution and beef up efforts to ensure the safety of drinking water.
• The General Administration of Press and Publication says authorities have banned over 1,400 works of on-line literature on the grounds that it was pornographic in a nationwide campaign to eradicate "lewd" contents from the Internet.
• A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security says Chinese police have detained more than 5000 people in a 10-month national campaign against invoice fraud.
• Five prisons in Sichuan are trying to break out of the box by taking out a unique ad.
• Defending champion Venus Williams suffered an opening round-robin defeat to Russia's Elena Dementieva on the first day of the WTA Championships in Doha on Tuesday.
• Michael Owen rolled back the years to score a superb second goal for Manchester United as they continued their English League Cup defense with a 2-0 victory at second-flight Barnsley on Tuesday.

[China's Champion]  Chinese Medicine Doctor from Germany

There seems to be a great deal of skepticism about the mysterious theories of Chinese medicine and puzzling components of herbal medicine. Can you imagine a foreigner learning Chinese medicine? One German has done so. Doris Rathgeber, a herbal medicine enthusiast, is a Chinese medicine doctor in Shanghai.

[Tour Tips] Sanjiang

Located in the northern part of the Guangxi Zhuang Automomous Region in southern China, the Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County is the only Dong ethnic minority county in Guangxi.

[Cultural Voyage] This Is It

This Is It, the film documenting the rehearsals of Michael Jackson's come-back concerts, debuted for Chinese audiences just after midnight this morning.

[Showbiz News]

• The Michael Jackson tribute film "This Is It" has opened in cinemas worldwide.
  Most Chinese cinemas offered midnight screenings for diehard Jackson fans who would like to see the film as a final goodbye to the "King of Pop."
• "Twilight" hunk Taylor Lautner has fueled rumors he is dating country singer Taylor Swift after they were spotted enjoying a date in Los Angeles.
• Jennifer Aniston has ruled out a second Botox jab, because she hated the way her face froze after the procedure.
• British singer Lily Allen is to set up her own record label, because she's run out of things to write about.

[Strange News]

• Customs officers in Norway were amazed to find 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos taped to a man's body.
• A police officer in suburban West Vancouver was searching for suspects involved in a reported fight early on Sunday when he spotted a man, later found to be wearing a brightly colored clown costume, driving at him on the wrong side of the road.
• Researchers in Germany have come up with an iPhone app that allows motorists to drive a car using their mobile phone.
• A lazy postman took so long to deliver letters to a village some of the residents had died by the time they arrived.

[Real China] China faces infertility tide

Nowadays an increasing number of young couples find it's hard to get pregnant. Infertility is quickly becoming a problem in China.

[Flexible News] Foreigners awarded for knowing china

As China celebrates the 60th anniversary of the People's Republic, the Chinese people and government have striven towards the construction of their country and have made great progress in many aspects, such as improving the quality of people's lives, and upgrading industry, agriculture, science and technology.