英闻天下——288 Hong Kong Disneyland Posts First Profit

Hong Kong Disneyland's parade now has all the more reason for celebration, as the seven-year-old theme park has just announced its first ever net profit. The world's smallest Disneyland, which opened in September 2005, has posted its first net profit

英闻天下——287 High Spending during Spring Festival Triggers Anxiety

As the Spring Festival ends, people have posted various bills of the money they spent during the Spring Festival on the internet. This has stirred heated discussions about the costs of nationwide family-gathering holidays. Gu Jun, who works in the in

英闻天下——286 G20 Vows to Support Financial Stability & Sustainable Growth

Finance officials of the Group of 20, or G20, pledged to strengthen financial supervision and promote sustainable growth at the conclusion of a two-day meeting in Moscow. Meanwhile, China has welcomed efforts made by the United States and the Europea

英闻天下——284 Traces of Horsemeat Found in Britain

British authorities say traces of horsemeat have been found in school meals, restaurant dishes and hospital food, as well as in supermarket products. The announcement came as the European Union agreed to begin random DNA checks on meat products in a

英闻天下——283 An Asteroid Misses Earth, Causes No Public Panic

Meanwhile, a 45-meter wide asteroid has hurtled safely past earth after it came within 27-thousand kilometers, making it the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. The asteroid, named 2012 DA14 came closer to earth than many communication and we

英闻天下——282 New Photos on Chavez & His Daughters Released

Photos showing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez alongside his daughters in Havana have been released. The photos depict Chavez leaning on a bed, a blue pillow behind his head. He smiles broadly, while his daughters Rosa and Maria lean in close to him

英闻天下——281 Islamic Culture In Lanzhou

Prayers resound through Lanzhou every Friday afternoon as local Muslims gather for congregational prayer, or as Muslim people call it, Jumu'ah. During Jumu'ah, Muslims from around the city often come to Xiguan Mosque, the largest mosque in Lanzhou an

英闻天下——280 A City of Breathtaking Landscape & Ubiquitous Graffiti

Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city in Brazil, on the South Atlantic coast. Rio is famous for its breathtaking landscape, its laidback beach culture as well as its ubiquitous graffiti. From the sandy shores of Rio de Janeiro's wealthy beach are

英闻天下——279 Israeli Schools, Kindergartens Hold Rocket Strike Drill

At Yeshivat Netivot school in Jerusalem, students were evacuated to a safe place and police, ambulances and fire trucks arrived soon after the alarm sounded. Chen Livni, Commander of Jerusalem District in the Home Front Command, says the exercise hel

英闻天下——278 Jana Danica, Fall in Love with Chinese in Lanzhou

The place to meet Jana Danica is at the Lanzhou University library. Jana has been studying Chinese for 6 and half years, and earned a bachelor's degree in sinology. For the last 2 and half years she's been working on an environmental law program taug

英闻天下——289 3D Printer Market in China

With a 3D printer, you can design your own item, either it's a cellphone cover or a 3D model of yourself, even something only exists in your imagination. But a high precision 3D printer has more practical application. Yao Junfeng is the general manag

英闻天下——277 Qingdao Locals Celebrate Spring Festival

While shopping malls and supermarkets have sprung up around Qingdao, an international city in east China's Shandong Province, people are still fond of visiting traditional open air markets in the countryside during the New Year. The Licun village Fai

英闻天下——276 San Francisco China Town Celebrations

Named one of the world's top ten parades, the Chinese Lunar New Year Parade in San Francisco has been named the largest celebration of its kind outside of Asia. Karen Eng is the coordinator for the Chinese New Year parade. She says Chinese New Year i

英闻天下——275 Yearender: From Space to the Sea

This lunar new year has come following a wide-range of achievements made here in China this past year, including advancements in space exploration and the commissioning of the country's first aircraft carrier. CRI's Qi Zhi has more. Shenzhou 9 has su

英闻天下——274 Remains of "Ape Woman" Returned to Mexico

The remains of a Mexican woman have now been buried in her home state of Sinaloa after 150 years at a research facility in Norway. She had been on display since Victorian-era Europe because of a rare genetic condition. The move puts an end to an era

英闻天下——273 EU to Hold Crisis Talks over Horsemeat Scandal

EU agriculture ministers are set to discuss the horsemeat scandal which has now affected up to 16 countries. EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg is hosting talks in Brussels. It follows the shock discovery last week of meat sold in Europe labelled as b

英闻天下——271 S. Korea Deploys Cruise Missile to Deter DPRK Threat

The South Korean defence ministry says it has deployed cruise missiles to counter a possible attack by North Korea after Pyongyang carried out its third underground nuclear test on Tuesday. Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok made the revelations at a re

英闻天下——270 Obama Pledges to Reignite Economy

In his fourth State of the Union address, President Barack Obama says his generation's task is to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth, a rising and thriving middle class. He urged Congress to tie the minimum wage to the cost of livi

英闻天下——269 The Beijing Citizens' Lunar New Year Gala

One of the best performing arts venues in the country, the National Centre for the Performing Arts, has been graced by some of the best artists in the world. But this year, ordinary people have the opportunity to bring their talents to this grand sta

英闻天下——268 North Korea Successfully Conducts the Third Nuclear Test

North Korea has confirmed the success of its third underground nuclear test in the country's northeast, which has caused an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9. The scientific field for national defense of DPRK succeeded in the third underground nucle