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[Metro & Sports]

• For the first time in 15 years, China's head of state will visit Singapore and Malaysia to allegedly sign a number of agreements and discuss trade protectionism.
• A Chinese official on Monday called on state parties of a UN anti-corruption treaty to strengthen cooperation in fighting corruption amid the ongoing global financial crisis.
• Peking University, one of the most prestigious universities in China, will recruit students that are recommended by high school headmasters next year, the university's office of enrollment announced Sunday.
• Plastic bags, the scourge of the environment, are flying high in Beijing, thanks to a retired engineer who is turning the waste into colorful kites.
• Substitute Steven Gerrard scored a controversial late penalty to earn struggling Liverpool a 2-2 English Premier League draw against Birmingham at Anfield on Monday.
• Golf's world number 1 Tiger Woods has wasted no time putting the pain of again failing to claim the HSBC masters in Shanghai behind him by flying into Melbourne, Australia ahead of the Australian masters which tees off on Thursday.
  

[China's Champion]  Robert Hawke

Bob Hawke was the Australian Labor Party leader who became the 23rd Prime Minister of Australia. He was once rated as the most popular prime minister ever in his nation. After he lost the election in the 1990's, he worked for the Channel 9 TV Network. Bob Hawke also showed deep interest in the business world and in 1994 he published his political biography, "The Hawke Memoirs". Former Prime Minister Hawke was invited to give a keynote speech at the Shenzhen Forum last weekend, in which he discussed international talent exchange. China Now's He Fei met with him there and filed this interview.

[Cultural Voyage] EU Film Festival Going On

Last Thursday night, the 2nd EU Film Festival in China was formally launched in Beijing. On the opening ceremony of the film festival, the Oscar nominated Swedish film "Evil" was screened. 25 other films from EU countries will also be shown during the one month event.

[Showbiz News]

• Japanese actress and singer Noriko Sakai was sentenced to 18 months in jail, suspended for three years, for drug use, Tokyo District Court ruled on Monday.
• Hong Kong director Jingle Ma's movie "Mulan" will join in the year-end battle at the Chinese box office.
• London hosted 120 of the world's most beautiful young women as they came together in advance of a charity dinner and auction to launch the Miss World 2009 Festival on Monday 9 November.
• Steven Tyler has quit Aerosmith, according to the band's guitarist Joe Perry.

[Strange News]

• A man from Nanjing in Jiangsu province, surnamed Wang, dragged his girlfriend to court claiming she has disappeared with a winning lottery ticket he had purchased.
• A US man claims the face of Jesus appears every morning in the condensation on the side window of his pick-up truck.
• Commuters at a London Underground station were shocked to hear the sound of a couple making love broadcast over the loudspeakers.
• A drunk woman who fell on the tracks at a Boston train station has walked away without injury and is now resting at home.

[Real China] A Children's Multimedia Fantasy In a Snowball

As children in Beijing were playing real snowball fights this morning after the city woke up to its second snowfall this winter, youngsters in Shanghai last weekend had the opportunity of sitting in a real snowball. The structure was a specially designed stage hosting a performance by the Belgian Royal Theatre for Children.