Monday, October 31, 2005

News

Three-day Revelry Marks Build-up to Today's Halloween: Parts of Beijing seemed like ghost towns over the weekend no, not deserted, but populated with ghost-like figures.

Acrobatic Festival Attracts World-Class Acts: The 10th China Wuqiao International Circus Festival (CWICF) opened on Saturday in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, attracting 326 acrobats from 16 countries.

China's Next Big Boom Could Be the Foul Air: One statistic offered last week by a top Chinese environmental official should stimulate genuine alarm inside and outside China. The official, Zhang Lijun, warned that pollution levels here could more than quadruple within 15 years if the country does not curb its rapid growth in energy consumption and automobile use.


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