Nike apologises to China for ad: Sportswear giant Nike has apologised for a TV advert that was banned by China for being "blasphemous". The ad shows US basketball player LeBron James battling and defeating a cartoon kung-fu master and a pair of dragons.
Microsoft outprogrammed by Chinese: Domestic software developers beat Microsoft to win a 2 million yuan (US$240,000) deal with the provincial government of Shanxi, North China. It is another setback for the US software giant after a US$3.5 million deal with the Beijing municipal government was cancelled late last month amid complaints that local governments are not buying enough domestically developed software.
Breakthrough made in China's chicken genome research: The world-famous scientific magazine The Nature issued three thematic scientific papers on Dec. 9, illustrating the major achievements the Beijing Genome Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made in polymorphous research on jungle fowl and chicken genomes.
Gov't Aims to Fatten Wallets of Farmers: The central government will redouble its efforts to replicate this year's favourable results in China's grain production and farmers' incomes for next year.
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