BEIRUT: An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 people on board crashed into the Mediterranean sea shortly after taking off from Beirut international airport in the early hours of Monday, airport sources said. The Boeing 737-800 disappeared off the radar some five minutes after taking off, shortly after its scheduled departure time of 2:10 am (0010 [...]

Commercial land transfer has been suspended in Hainan province, but its provincial party chief said the move would not affect the development of the real estate, xinhuanet.com reported.
Wei Liucheng, party chief of Hainan province said yesterday that there were plenty of land resources in the province after the administration suspended the commercial land transfer to [...]

One student has been confirmed dead and two others missing after filming for a TV series went horrifically wrong, China Youth Daily reported.
100 students from a local school were asked to appear as extras in a shoot for a program nearby the sea, but ten were engulfed by a huge wave.
The ten students from a [...]

reported that Beijing will hold a gay pageant  but will the pageant suffer the same fate as the gay bar in Yunnan province? At least the bar finally opened, although postponed for a while.
Just like the article said, Chinese society not to be so tolerant to gay people so they tend to hide their identity by [...]

China Huaneng Group, China’s biggest power producer, will build two 600MW power units in the far western Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, an executive at its Xinjiang subsidiary said Saturday.
Liu Xinmin, general manager of the Huaneng Xinjiang Energy Development Company, said the regional development and reform commission, the local economic planner, gave the green light to [...]

When it comes to stock trading, age does not necessarily equal wisdom.
At just 18 years old, Liang Hao has outperformed many institutional investors and private equity funds by making a nearly 100 percent profit from the stock market last year.
Over the years the high school student from Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province, has turned [...]

Actors Ethan Hawke (L) and Willem Dafoe arrive for the premiere of the film ‘Daybreakers’ in New York January 7, 2010.

Tickets for the 3-D and IMAX versions of the blockbuster movie Avatar were selling for up to four times their original price during the first weekend of James Cameron’s epic film.
China’s biggest online trading platform, taobao.com, saw ticket scalpers promoting themselves as “purchasing agents”, selling 100-yuan tickets to the China National Film Museum for between [...]

Bradley Cooper – who is dating Renee Zellweger – loved reading rumours that he was in a gay relationship with pal Victor Garber.
Bradley Cooper thinks it was “fantastic” people thought he was gay.
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The ‘Case 39′ actor – who is dating his co-star Renee Zellweger – is amazed at how much of what is written about [...]

WASHINGTON: A powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands in South Pacific early Monday in local time, the second quake in less than an hour, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said Sunday.
According to the USGS, the quake was centered 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Gizo at about 9:36 am local time on Monday [...]