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[Metro & Sports]

• President Barack Obama's visit to Shanghai has generated an unexpected business boom for some in the city.
• The Beijing Daily reports All Beijing residents will have access to the A/H1N1 flu vaccine starting today until December 13.
• Southern China will soon feel the freezing winds and snow that struck the north over the past week.
• Another 80,000 households in the ancient courtyards in downtown Beijing have bid farewell to coal heating this winter.
• Argentina coach Diego Maradona has been handed a two-month ban and been fined almost $25,000 following the football legend's foul-mouthed tirade last month.
• World No. 3 Novak Djokovic held off a spirited challenge from home hero Gael Monfils to win the Paris Masters on Sunday and claim his second title in as many weeks.

[China's Champion] Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies Reopened   

China's prestigious Tsinghua University reopened its Institute of Chinese Studies early this month, drawing great attention from academic circles and observers alike. But what is it going to be like, and what is behind the sudden popularity of Chinese studies which has swept the country over the past few years?

[Cultural Voyage] Live Interview with Mr. O. Natty B. Davis ��, Minister of State Development and Reconstruction of Liberia

Today we are very honored to have Natty Davis in our live studio. He is the Liberia's Minister of State Development and Reconstruction.

[Showbiz News]

• Disaster swept the world as "2012" registered the biggest opening for a non-franchise movie.
• A throng of Janet Jackson fans crammed the centre court of L.A. shopping mecca The Grove for a flash-mob performance of a medley of the diva's hits with Jackson herself watching the event from on high.
• The Academy Awards won't be presented until March, but the first Oscars of the season were handed out Saturday night at a black-tie dinner.
• Former "Seinfeld" writer-producer Larry Charles, who went on to direct the "Borat" and "Bruno" movies, is returning to NBC with a semi-scripted project.

[Strange News]

• A drunken man fell into a village-type dry toilet last week and slept inside until he was rescued the next morning.
• A new supermarket that sells "only love and nothing else" opened its doors in Beijing last week.
• A Chinese pensioner sold his apartment to fund his dream of creating a wheelchair that can climb stairs. West China City Daily reports sixty-seven-year-old Li Rongbiao of Beijing came up with the idea after his wife, Wang Huifang, broke her leg.
• A Chinese man has launched a secret sideline - by renting himself out as a punchbag for stressed women.

[Real China] Giant pandas coming to Adelaide zoo

Wang wang and Funi, two giant pandas from China, will soon arrive in South Australia's Adelaide zoo as part of a worldwide breeding program under an agreement with Chinese conservation and wildlife associations.

[Hangout]  Wanfujing Snack Street

Visitors come to China for many reasons, for business or shopping or sight-seeing. But one of the main things all visitors look forward to is the food. Wanfujing is Beijing's most famous shopping street, and its food markets are a great place to sample some typical, and some not so typical, Chinese snacks. Thomas Rippe takes us there.