China Comm, the company behind the project, intend to cover the whole area within the fifth ring road before 2009 then cover the whole city by the end of 2010.

A Beijing subway line, the NO. 2 Line, suspended operation twice unexpectedly in rush hour Wednesday afternoon because of a signal failure.

Hong Kong Cable TV interviewed Sharon Stone in Cannes for her opinion on the China Sichuan earthquake, and her response was staggeringly distasteful.

A Chinese artist creates a 'live' piece of work.  Using just light, sand, and his hands.

The rescue effort in Hanwang county is into its fourth day. Parents and relatives are basically looking for their kids bodies to surface. Miraculously a girl was rescued alive today. Unfortunately she will be amputated from the waist down. But considering the circumstances I think her parents and everyone are grateful.

As I'm sat at home writing this post in my comfortable dry apartment, in near silence - I, like many of you, feel desperately helpless. I've donated, I've told people how to donate on the radio and I've appealed to everyone I know back home to donate. And they are doing.

Now that the torch is on home soil it was expected that the protests would die down. It seems as though this is not quite the case.

Why on Earth would anyone feel the need to ban a performance of Pinocchio? What is it in the story that offends!?

CNN Linked Site Hacked - UPDATE

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.