Telecom Hero
Wang Jianzhou, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of China Mobile Co. Ltd., has been awarded this year's World Telecommunication and Information Society Award by the International Telecommunication Union
Basketball Helmsman
American Bob Donewald Jr , a former assistant with NBA teams New Orleans Hornets and Cleveland Cavaliers from 2001 to 2004, has taken over China's men's basketball team as head coach
Disgraced Property Developers
Zhang Zhiqin and Que Jingde, two Shanghai businessmen, have been sentenced to life imprisonment for their involvement in a fatal residential building collapse last year

"No country or group of countries can address all security issues on its own. And only when security for all is achieved, can peace and security for individual countries be safeguarded."

Li Baodong, Permanent Representative of China to the UN, at the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference in New York

"The current negotiations have not been negotiations at all, because no buyers have been given a say."

Luo Bingsheng, Vice Chairman of the China Iron and Steel Association, on the stalled price negotiations between Chinese steel mills and their foreign iron ore suppliers

"This is not going to be a black tide of oil, it's globs of oil coming in patches, but it's going to come for a long time. At this point, it's impossible to protect everything."

Ed Overton, an emeritus professor of environmental science at Louisiana State University, on difficulties in cleaning up the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig on April 20

"We are called on today to make a basic choice. The choice is between collapse or salvation."

George Papaconstantinou, Greece's Finance Minister, on a deal with the EU and IMF for a $145-billion financial rescue, in return for which Greece must commit to years of austerity measures

"Cigarettes kill people. Therefore, the government makes no apology whatsoever over what it's doing."

Kevin Rudd, Australian Prime Minister, on his government's plan to ban brand labels on cigarette packaging

"We beat ourselves up for that."

Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs, admitting, in an interview with CNN that his company bears some blame for the real estate bubble that led to the global financial meltdown

 

 
VICTORIOUS RETURN Members of the eighth contingent of Chinese riot police in Haiti descend from a plane in Beijing on May 4. The 126 police officers successfully carried out their assignments as UN peacekeepers in Haiti (HE JUNCHANG)
Campus Security
China's central and local governments have shifted to high gear in a campus security clampdown after a string of deadly attacks against students in schools and kindergartens
Youth Day Letter
Chinese President Hu Jintao encouraged college students to help advance the country's modernization drive on the eve of Youth Day, on May 4, calling on them to "nourish lofty ambitions."
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CONTAINING THE FLOOD
People in Altay, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, lay down sand bags in a river to fight floods caused by melting snow, which killed livestock and damaged infrastructure, on May 1 (ZHANG WENCHENG)
SHOE SHOW
A shoe wholesaler looks at the latest lines of women's shoes at an international shoe exhibition that opened in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, on May 4. Around 500 shoe manufacturers displayed their new designs (CHEN FAN)
STARDOM ON ICE
China's silver-medal winning figure skaters at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Pang Qing and Tong Jian, perform in Taipei on May 5. They are Olympic medalists who are on an eight-day tour of Taiwan (WU JINGTENG)
COME TO LIFE
A dragon made of fruit and vegetables attracts crowds of tourists at a vegetable exhibition in Shouguang, Shandong Province, on May 2 (DONG NAIDE)
 
TOURIST BOOM The more than 100 islands in Weihai, Shandong Province, see a 50-percent growth in the number of tourists from both home and abroad during the Labor Day holiday (LI ZIHENG)
Oil Exploration
China's largest oil and gas producer PetroChina is increasing investment in oil and gas exploration and development in Indonesia by 30 percent through its local subsidiary this year
Closer Tourism Ties
Taiwan unveiled its tourism offices in Beijing on May 4, the first quasi-official agency on the mainland, in the latest sign of warming ties across the Straits
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Stock Market Woes
The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index has retreated more than 12 percent so far this year as lingering concerns over tightening monetary policies keep the mood subdued
Manufacturing Strength
The Purchasing Managers' Index, a gauge of manufacturing activities across the nation, came in at 55.7 percent in April, up from 55.1 percent in March and 52 percent in February
No Sour Milk Market
For China's dairy industry buckling under strains of the tainted formula scandal, greener pastures lie ahead. The magnitude of the bounce-back was a reason to celebrate given how heavily the health scare in 2008 pinched market confidence
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  • GREECE
    A man sleeps in the empty departure hall of the Athens International Airport during a 24-hour general strike on May 5. The strike was to protest against the austerity measures the Greek Government had adopted to avert a fiscal meltdown (XINHUA/AFP)
  • SENEGAL
    Gong Yuanxing (second left), Chinese Ambassador to Senegal, presents office appliances from China to Senegal's Minister of Culture Serigne Mamadou Bousso Leye in Dakar, the African nation's capital, on May 5. The appliances, including computers, were a gift from China's Ministry of Culture (XU XIAOJUN)
  • UNITED NATIONS
    Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad condemns the United States and Western countries' pursuing hypocritical nuclear policies during the 2010 High-level Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons at the UN headquarters in New York on May 3 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • SPAIN
    People queue at a government employment office in Madrid on April 30. Spain's unemployment rate rose to 20.05 percent in the first quarter (XINHUA/AFP)
  • RUSSIA
    Warplanes fly over the Kremlin in Moscow on May 4 during a Victory Day parade rehearsal. Russia marked the 65th anniversary of the victory in the Russian Patriotic War against Nazi Germany on May 9 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • UNITED STATES
    Billionaire investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway Warren Buffet (front center) performs before the company's annual shareholders' meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 1. Buffet said China had "an amazing economy" with huge potential (LIU HONG)
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