The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television released advice on regulating the prices of film tickets recently. According to the stipulation, prices of group tickets and member tickets should not be lower than 70 percent of the listed price in the cinema, but it encourages the implementation of half-price day on Tuesday as well as in the mornings from Monday to Friday.
Jeremy Lin, a Harvard-educated Chinese-American, has emerged from being an ordinary person to an idol on the National Basketball Association court in the United States.
The National Development and Reform Commission raised the price of gasoline and diesel by 300 yuan ($47.6) a ton on Feb 8 - 0.22 yuan a liter for gasoline and 0.26 yuan a liter for diesel.
During the Spring Festival, the tourism revenue in Central China's Henan province amounted to nearly 5 billion yuan ($794 million) with the retail revenue of consumer goods reaching 25.2 billion yuan.
China Telecom plans to speed up broadband access in the capital after the Spring Festival free of charge, according to a source familiar with the issue.
Topic 1: Apple Inc's iPhone 4S went on sale on the Chinese mainland on Jan 13. The retail price for the 16 gigabyte (GB) version is 4,988 yuan ($792). It is 5,888 yuan for 32 GB device and 6,788 yuan for the 64 GB one.
As the Spring Festival approaches, the world's largest-scale human migration is about to begin in China. The Ministry of Railways announced at the end of last year the launch of an online railway ticket booking system to help reduce the pressure on railway station ticket windows.
According to EntGroup Inc, a Beijing-based entertainment-industry consulting company, Zhang Yimou's film The Flowers of War, starring the British actor Christian Bale, had taken in 152.1 million yuan ($24 million) in box-office receipts by Dec 18.
Topic 1: Economic slowdown put an end to ever-rising prices in the Asian property market that went on for several years. The consumer price index declined sharply to 4.2 percent in November in the Chinese mainland, the year's lowest, from a 37-month high of 6.5 percent in July. Hong Kong, the Chinese mainland and Singapore have all experienced a decline. What are bloggers saying about the trend next year?
Topic 1: According to figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Dec 9, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in November increased by 4.2 percent year-on-year and dropped 0.2 percent compared with last month, reaching its lowest level since last September 2010. Is the price of commodities falling?
The National Development and Reform Commission announced on Nov 30 there would be an increase in the sales and on-grid prices of electricity.
Topic 1: With the approach of December, the golden time for cinemas is just around the corner. Recently, well-known director Zhang Yimou's latest work, The Flowers of War, made a big stir in the film industry after its producer was required to raise its lowest ticket price nationwide by 5 yuan (79 cents) as well as to increase the film producer's profit-sharing proportion by 2 percent against theaters. Micro-bloggers have been discussing how much they would like to pay for a film ticket.
Topic 1: A school bus accident occurred on Nov 16 in Yulinzi township, Zhengning county, Gansu province, that killed 21 people, 19 of whom were children. The nine-seat bus had been illegally refitted and was carrying 64 people when it collided head-on with a coal truck in the morning. The day after the tragedy, the Ministry of Education urged schools and kindergartens nationwide to conduct safety checks on their school buses.
Topic 1: The Ministry of Finance released the accumulated data of personal income tax during the January to October period on Nov 9. It reached 534.7 billion yuan ($84.2 billion) and exceeded the whole year's budget target of 520 billion yuan two months in advance. If the growth rate in the last two months keeps stable as in October, it is expected that the whole scale will increase by 80 billion yuan this year. The fiscal revenue in the first 10 months generated more than 9 trillion yuan in comparison with last year's total number of 8.3 trillion yuan.
Topic1: Bookings to reserve the Hong Kong version of Apple Inc's iPhone 4S opened on Nov 4 but the stock soon ran out. The price for a 16G iPhone 4S is HK$5,088 ($654.92) and for 32G it is HK$5,888 ($757.89). Each customer could place an order for as many as 10 units. Shipment will take place in two to four weeks. Micro-bloggers are in heated discussion about the price of the Hong Kong version of the iPhone 4S.
Topic1: Amazon.com Inc, the world's largest e-commerce company by market share, is to publish 122 books in printed and electronic forms. Meanwhile, one of its senior officials said that the collapse of traditional publishers is inevitable. The issue of books printed on paper disappearing in the future has aroused hot discussion among micro-bloggers.
Topic 1: Two-year-old girl Yue Yue was reported dead on Oct 21 despite receiving treatment from expert doctors over the previous seven days and nights. Yue Yue was ignored and left to die by 18 passers-by after being run over by two vans in Foshan, in South China's Guangdong province. It was a rubbish collector who finally came to help the dying girl. Yue Yue's tragedy has aroused wide public concern nationwide.
Topic 1: Thousands of small online sellers attacked larger online vendors on tmall.com, China's largest business-to-consumer (B2C) online marketplace by transaction value, after the platform significantly increased service fees on online merchandisers on Oct 11. Analysts said that this organized unrest is a measure of the widespread discontent with Taobao Mall's growing reliance on bigger merchants, and it highlights a crisis for the industry monopoly.
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