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[Metro & Sports]
- With less than a week to go before Spring Festival, Beijing railway police are tightening up their campaign against ticket hoarding and related problems.
- The annual shortage of nannies in the capital because of Spring Festival was eased a little further last week when 60 housekeepers from Hebei province arrived in Beijing.
- Another wave of high-end international stores will set up shop in Beijing this year.
- More than 300 villagers attacked a local government building Sunday in a small town of south China's Guangdong Province, protesting against a government-sponsored project to divert some of its water to a neighboring town.
- Stoke striker Ricardo Fuller was arrested over the weekend over what the Premier League club calls "an incident in a nightclub."
- Robin Soderling has won his first match of the year, beating Florent Serra 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 in the first round of the ABN Amro indoor tournament.
[China's Champion] Master Storyteller Tian Lianyuan
Many among the post-80s generation still remember such a childhood scene: the whole family gathers around a TV set, watching Ping Shu, or a form of professional storytelling, while having supper.
That scene always conjures up the image of Tian Lianyuan. Tian was the first person to bring the folk art of storytelling to television in the 1980s. And his funny way of telling stories left inerasable impressions on many.
[Tour tips] The Hanging Monastery in Datong
The Hanging Monastery, built in 491, has survived for more than 1,400 years. The Monastery stands at the foot of Mt. Hengshan, about 40 miles from downtown Datong City of Shanxi Province in North China. Since it hangs on the west cliff of the Golden Dragon Gorge more than 50 meters above the ground, it is called the Hanging Monastery.
[Cultural Voyage] "Purchasing one's own carbon funds"-------- A new fashion trend in Chinese City of Wenzhou
Environmental protection is gaining global popularity. At present, more and more countries are trying hard to practice low-carbon life-styles. In the Chinese city of Wenzhou, in Zhejiang Province, Eastern China, a new fashion trend of purchasing your own carbon credits is springing up.
[Showbiz News]
- Tom Cruise is starring in another impossible mission.
- Jim Carrey says "every day is Valentine's Day" with girlfriend Jenny McCarthy.
- Rapper Lil Wayne temporarily escaped jail on Tuesday when his sentencing for possessing a gun was postponed on the same day he bid goodbye to fans in a video he posted on the Web.
- A San Francisco jury has found a former reality TV show contestant guilty of killing a man in 2007.
[Strange News]
- A man in Clarksville, Tennessee, USA was arrested February 4 after allegedly lying to police about being robbed when a police investigation uncovered that he'd given money away, and lied to avoid an argument with his spouse.
- One of the world's oldest dialects, which traces its origins to tens of thousands of years ago, has become extinct after the last person to speak it died on a remote Indian island.
- In the states, Los Angeles County prosecutors are looking into a complaint that the mayor of Carson cuts off public speakers at City Council meetings if he doesn't like what they're saying. David Demerjian of the district attorney's office said the complaint claims that Mayor Jim Dear hits the mute button on speakers before the three-minute time limit is up.
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