KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s coach has warned shuttlers not to roll over against Lee Chong Wei at this week’s national badminton championships or run the risk of missing out on other tournaments.
The world number one goes for his eighth consecutive national title in Johor Baru this week and Malaysia’s singles head coach Rashid Sidek wants [...]

LONDON – John Terry was stripped of the England captaincy after a meeting with coach Fabio Capello on Friday, the Football Association (FA) said.
The Chelsea defender paid the price for damaging revelations about his private life and Manchester United’s Rio Ferdinand now looks likely to lead England to this year’s World Cup.
“After much thought, I [...]

CHICAGO – An athlete nicknamed after a tomato because of his flaming red hair and a regal South Korean figure skater head the Forbes list of top earning Winter Olympic athletes.Shaun White, the top U.S. snowboarder, and South Korean figure skater Kim Yu-na both earned $8 million last year, leading all athletes for the Winter [...]

China has discharged 49.15 million tons of industrial solid waste and 39,400 tons of industrial hazardous waste throughout the year of 2007, according to information released in the first national survey, the China Economic Net reported.
Zhang Lijun, deputy chief of Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection, revealed the latest findings of a two-year national survey on [...]

Can’t wait to rush home for the Spring Festival? A recent poll revealed 41.1% people dare not go home at all due to the event being a costly ordeal for their meager salary, the China Youth Daily reported. And they christen themselves “the home dodgers”.
A confession letter on Tianya.com by an anonymous son to his [...]

One hundred thousand people are expected to join the corps of migrant workers in south China’s Guangdong province who drive home on motorbikes for the Spring Festival, police said to the Nanfang Daily.
The daily exodus of motorcycling migrants through the southern Zhaoqing city, a bottleneck connecting Guangdong and southwest hinterlands, was a pageant too swarming [...]

City mulls over regulations to curb investment on property amid soaring prices.
Beijing is set to launch specific regulations on the real estate sector just days before Spring Festival, aimed at curbing investment-led demand in the housing market and addressing imbalance between property demand and supply.
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Xu Zhijun, a spokesman from the Beijing municipal commission of housing [...]

We lived in hutong communities for more than 40 years before moving into a high-rise apartment. Forty years was more than enough to experience and explore hutong life.
We did have a happy life there, but it was not because of the architecture. On the contrary, the houses caused us a lot of suffering. They are [...]

The wave of anti-Confucius sentiment following the removal of Avatar from 2D screens reveals a backlash against official maneuvering.
In the ongoing holiday movie season, there is an “I-hate-Confucius” undercurrent. It has boiled to the surface and become a form of “counter-terrorism”. In Chinese, the homonym for Confucius and terrorism are both “kong”.
Not that Confucius is [...]