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• A Beijing hospital offering medical treatment to a baby girl abandoned by her parents because she suffered life-threatening birth defects says her parents' agreement is needed for surgery.
• Gong Gangmo, a gang leader and former sales manager of motorbike producer Yingang company, has been given life imprisonment and fined 50.21 million yuan, over 7 million US dollars, for multiple felonies in southwest China's Chongqing municipality.
• The World Famous Brand Assembly 2009 has announced 2009's "Global Top 500 Brands", with 88 Chinese brands making it onto the list.
• China is striving to integrate its regional cable TV operators and work out a draft plan of its national cablevision network firm. However, the task is considered an uphill battle due to regulatory overlap.
• Kobe Bryant sat out the Lakers' 96-81 victory over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday with a sore left ankle.
  

[China's Champion] Chen Wusheng--a businessman always on the road
Today in "China's Champion", we'll introduce you to a Chinese business man, Chen Wusheng. He was just nominated as one of the "Brand China" People of the Year 2009 on the Chinese mainland, along with some other famous biz figures in China.

[Cultural Voyage] Indonesian produces basket cakes to meet demand for the Spring Festival
The Spring Festival or Chinese New Year is an important festival celebrated by Chinese worldwide.
For Indonesian entrepreneur Umar Sanjaya who produces basket cakes in Jakarta, the Chinese traditional holiday is a good season to boom his business. Now Sanjaya's company is producing basket cakes round the clock to meet demand for the upcoming festival.

• The star-studded 60th Berlin International Film Festival kicks off today, uniting hot Hollywood fare with fresh Asian releases.
• With his latest production Apart Together opening the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and competing in the prestigious event, which begins today, director Wang Quan'an shared his disapproval of acclaimed Chinese directors selling out to quick money-making blockbusters during an exclusive interview with the Global Times.
• Moviegoers will have a full week to see and appreciate Hong Kong films and Chinese cinematography as a special film festival was launched on Tuesday.
• The late Michael Jackson will appear in the 25th anniversary remake of "We Are The World," Access Hollywood has learned.
  

[Strange News]

• A middle-aged woman surnamed Ding in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province said she has stopped preparing her braised pork with soy sauce specialty after 5 kilograms of it was stolen from the balcony of her second-floor apartment where it was hanging.
• Japanese authorities have found the body of a man in the landing gear of a Delta airliner that arrived in Tokyo from New York
• A man in the US state of Oregon claims in a lawsuit Idaho police destroyed the mystical powers of a medicine bag when they opened it during his drunken driving arrest in August.
  

[Real China] Singles shop for love at Beijing's matchmaking supermarket