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• Companies in the Pearl River Delta region, one of the world's largest manufacturing bases, are facing a serious shortage of migrant workers after the Spring Festival.
• China's Education Ministry has warned students considering studying overseas against Australian schools run by the GEOS group after more than 40 Chinese students were left stranded with the group's collapse.
• An emotional Tiger Woods has apologized for his "irresponsible and selfish behavior" as the golf superstar broke his silence on the sex scandal that engulfed him last year.
• Maria Sharapova put her disappointing Australian Open performance behind her Sunday as she beat Sofia Arvidsson 6-2, 6-1 to win the WTA Tour's Memphis title.

[China's Champion] Song Wencongather of China's new generation fighter plane J-10
Many can still remember the formation of Chinese J-10 fighter aircrafts flying over Tian'anmen Square in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2009 during the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

[Tour Tips] Altai, or "Gold Mountain," borders Mongolia in the northeast and Russia and Kazakhstan in the northwest. Located in the north of China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region, the area belongs to Ili Kazak Autonomous prefecture. Half of its population is Kazak.

[Cultural Voyage] Xiang Yushan and His Shadow Play
Xiang Yushan () is an ordinary villager in Dahe ( village of Anji (county in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Born into a shadow play family, Xiang Yushan has been living with his beloved shadow plays for his whole life.

• The Iraq war drama "The Hurt Locker" has won six prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards.
• Onto more awards, the screenplays for "The Hurt Locker" and "Up in the Air" won top honors Saturday evening at the Writers Guild of America awards.
• Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's psychological thriller "Shutter Island" took the top spot at American box office over the weekend.
• Family tragedy, bad timing and tough competition kept American Idol contestant Angela Martin from moving past "American Idol's" Hollywood Week in three separate seasons.

[Strange News]

• A theft victim's cell phone ring tone was a crime stopper that also allowed him to be a life saver in Wuyi county, Zhejiang Province.
• Doctors in India believe that their 64-year-old patient could be the only man in the world whose internal organs are in the mirror opposite position of where they should be.
• Free money flying from a black Mercedes-Benz caused a near-riot and brought traffic to a halt on the streets of Wuhan, in China's Hubei Province.
• An Italian television chef has been suspended after he horrified animal lovers and TV station managers by praising the delights of cat meat during a show.
  

[Real China] Movie review If You Are the One
Today we would recommend another sweet and light-hearted New Year celebration movie. The film "If You Are the One" is the latest comedy of director Feng Xiaogang, the icon in the New Year film industry. This time, he pokes fun at the contradictions of love and blind dates in these rapidly changing times. Let's hear more from Yingying.