Broadcasting Time: 14:00-17:00, 2008-06-27

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[Metro News]

• South China's Guangzhou city has launched a bid to be a new giant panda-breeding center following the quake-led damages to the famed Wolong center in southwestern Sichuan Province.
• The 2008 Hong Kong and Macao Visual Arts Exhibition opened Monday at the Beijing World Art Museum. The exhibition creates a dialogue between arts and the multi-cultural society.
• The Shaolin Temple in China's Henan Province has come under fire for selling "Shaolin Kung Fu and Medicine Secret", a series of kung fu instruction manuals. Priced at 9,999 Yuan, or roughly 1,450 U.S. dollars, it is the most expensive item in the temple's online shop.
• The Shanghai municipal bureau of quality and technical supervision has mandated that surveillance cameras be installed in all supermarkets and convenience stores in the city by Oct 1.

[China's Champions] "Prince of High-wire Walking" Adili Wuxor

With a balance bar in his hands, 37-year-old Adili Wuxor has made several Guinness World Records tiptoeing on the high-wire and is honored as the "Prince of High-wire Walking."

[Tour Tip] Tourtips Datong

The Olympic torch tours Datong, the second largest city in northern China's Shanxi Province.

[Cultural Treasures] Xun, Sound of Autumn

Xun is a unique, ancient instrument known for its soothing sounds.

[Showbiz]

• Madonna has reportedly hired the divorce lawyer who represented Sir Paul McCartney.
• Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly sold their New Orleans home.
• Amy Winehouse will arrive at the Glastonbury music festival by helicopter on Saturday.
• Oasis have unveiled the title of their new album.

[Strange News]

• An Australian man was told his marriage was invalid - because he had married 30 years earlier during a drunken bender.
• A journalist had his new passport photos rejected - because his bald head was too shiny.
• A 7-year-old boy in Muncie, Indiana, drove his grandmother's car more than a mile to a shopping mall before another motorist blocked the car and took the keys, police said.
• And finally Political Correctness gone wrong!

[Real China] Graduates Serve as Village Officials in the Countryside

• They are not pursuing the hottest careers in a big city; instead, they choose to work as officials in the countryside.