Tuesday, December 28, 2004

News

Quilt show held to support panda applying for Olympic mascot: Students from Chengdu, the capital of southwestern Sichuan Province, made a huge picture of a panda from pieces of cloth Monday to support the rare animal's bid to be the mascot of 2008 Olympic Games to be held in Beijing. [full picture here]

Construction Resumed on Olympic Stadium: China has resumed construction of the 100,000-seat "bird's nest" national Olympic stadium, designed as a centerpiece venue for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Twentysomethings Bear the Heaviest Pressure: A project researching major sources of stress for people during the current period of social transformation, organized by the Psychology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently finished its analysis. It says that people in their 20s are living with the heaviest psychological pressures.


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