HOUR 1

REPORT

• Expo Souvenirs on Sale
• Interest Rate Hike Worries Investors
• Shanghai Expo Goes Green
• Movie Review: Detective D

MEDIA SCAN

• The South China Morning Post reports that if you plan to take an iPhone or iPad into the Chinese mainland, you should prepare to be taxed.
• The BBC reports that China has made a new appeal for the return of relics looted by British and French troops from the Old Summer Palace. In its appeal, the Old Summer Palace authority also calls for a boycott on auctions featuring the antiquities.
• The New York Times reports that in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, in China, every house put up for sale is immediately snapped up. But one thing largely missing in the city's extravagant new central district is residents.
• USA Today quotes a paper from the journal Alcoholism saying scientists have identified a gene that has a big effect on how people respond to alcohol.

HOUR 2

NEWS EXTRA

• China is to put 300,000 tons of colza oil that was previously stored in the nation's temporary reserve on the market. The action is scheduled for Wednesday and represents a part of China's attempt to stabilize the prices of daily necessities.
• Eleven of the Chinese tourists who had gone missing from a cruise ship visiting a South Korean island were detained by local police and will be deported to China for police investigation tomorrow.
• The city of Dalian in China's northeast province of Liaoning is now limiting new home purchases to one unit for each household, joining 13 other cities that have issued new buying rules in an effort to curb property speculation.
• China's state-owned enterprises are now reporting a 46 percent growth in profit in the first nine months.
• A film sequel to 2006's popular TV series "My Own Swordsman" ("Wu Lin Wai Zhuan") is filming now. A group of still photos were released online on Oct. 20.

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