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 China has tightened the protection of its natural reserves and scenic spots, by releasing on Tuesday a new regulation to restrict film shooting and artistic performances in these areas. |
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 Chinese experts have restored a 700-year-old handwritten copy of the Koran, the sacred book of Islam, in northwest China's Qinghai Province. The 867-page, two-volume set, the oldest known in China, is written in Arabic and stored in the Jiezi mosque in Xunhua County. The restoration work was done by experts from the Nanjing Museum. |
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 The Blood of Yingzhou District, a documentary film made in China about the children affected by AIDS, won an Oscar on Sunday at the 79th Academy Awards. |
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 A China Central Television host urged Starbucks to withdraw its six-year old outlet from the Forbidden City, because its existence spoils Chinese culture, Beijing News reported on Tuesday. Many netizens followed his post and supported his idea. |
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 Chinese authorities are investigating the smuggling of a rare fossilized dinosaur egg nest, which was auctioned for US$420,000 in Los Angeles on December 3, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said yesterday. |
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 It is a casting call to top all casting calls. The project in question is a television adaptation of A Dream of Red Mansions, a mammoth novel that is indisputably the pinnacle of Chinese literature in the fiction genre. There are some 100 roles with names and the Beijing Television Station has made the casting process an ongoing talent contest show. |
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 A Shanghai professor's alleged suggestion that the dragon should no longer symbolize China has aroused strong objections from the public. |
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 Continuing a recent trend of record-breaking auction buys in Hong Kong, the record price for Qing Dynasty ceramics was pulverized yesterday as an 18th century ceramic bowl was sold at auction for 151 million HK dollars (US$19.42 million). In a surprising twist, the bowl was purchased at twice its estimated price by Alice Cheng, the sister of the original seller. |
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 Tie Ning was elected as the first female president of the Chinese Writers Association (CWA) on Sunday. The 49-year-old writer becomes the younger-ever CWA president. |
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 Citizens are criticizing China's leading film director Zhang Yimou for damaging the environment of the famous West Lake in east China, where Zhang is producing an outdoor visual arts performance. |
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