Incinerator parks to relieve trash burden

By Ma Mingxuan
Four circular ecological parks over 6 square kilometers will be built in suburbs to aid in refuse disposal. The capital waste disposal system has reached its maximum capacity, making the location of new dumping grounds urgent.
Beijing was first besieged by trash in 1983, but the city today faces an even bigger problem: Urban [...]

Is country’s one-child policy heading for a revision? – Shanghai urges ‘two-child policy’

Is the world’s most populous nation about to get more crowded? Reports surfaced in international media last week that Shanghai was encourging some couples to have more offspring.

Boss killed by workers in clash – The risks of taking state-owned companies private

The greatest challenge for any private company is to take over a state-owned counterpart.

Stir over Aussie film festival: Politics comes before lights, camera, action

A documentary on the exiled Uyghur Rebiya Kadeer was not one of the headlining events at the ongoing Melbourne International Film Festival.

“Hacker school” trains next security experts

Hackbase.com, an online website for teaching Internet security technology, is considered one of the top three schools for training hackers in China.

Lucia loves… being a perfect house-guest

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article6732109.ece
Bringing a thoughtful present always makes you welcome
It’s the time of year — if we’re lucky and have generous friends — to go a-visiting. All over the country in tiny cottages on Dartmoor, in beachside villas in Cornwall and Sussex, in grand manor houses in Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, in shooting lodges in Scotland, in France, [...]

Richard Morrison misses US orchestras at the Proms

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/proms/article6675426.ece
For the first time in living memory the Proms season (which opens next Friday) is not graced by a single American orchestra. The loss is far more than just musical. Those visits by brash, brilliant New York, refined Boston, precision-made Cleveland, powerhouse Chicago and aristocratic Philadelphia, just to name the traditional “Big Five” (most US [...]

Anna Friel: from Brookside bullying to Hollywood’s A-list?

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6732068.ece
The former soap star leaves behind British negativity for happier times – and a massive workload – in Los Angeles
Kevin Maher

In a Georgian townhouse on the outskirts of Windsor, Anna Friel is staring into a pint of purple sludge. “I have to treat myself like an athlete at the moment just to cope,” says the [...]

China Blue High-definition Disc (CBHD) launched as challenge to Blu-ray

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/china/article6732410.ece
Leo Lewis, Asia Business Correspondent
China has unleashed a new “format war” for control of the high-definition DVD market in an audacious attempt to unseat the Blu-ray disc as the sole global standard.
The launch of the China Blue High-definition Disc (CBHD) for domestic use is viewed by analysts as a dramatic assertion of the country’s rising [...]

Jude Law to be a father again… but who is the mother?

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article6733078.ece
Jude Law is to become a father for the fourth time following a relationship with a woman he is declining to name.

The famously media-shy actor has promised to play a “supportive role” when the baby is born this autumn although he is no longer involved with the child’s mother.
The Bafta-winning star of The Talented Mr [...]