A Chinese vocational school said Monday it has got bored with the repeated reports carried by the New York Times insisting that it was a source of the Google cyber attacks. "The reports are too boring, simply unfounded and politically orientated," Li Zixiang, Party chief of the privately-run Lanxiang Vocational School (Lanxiang) in east China's Shandong Province, told Xinhua.

Long the favorite drink for generations of Chinese, Longjing tea enjoys an unrivalled reputation for quality and flavor. Yet imitators and unlicensed producers have been muddying the market, watering down the quality and reputation of what is ranked the country's No 1 tea.

China's key stock index opened down 0.05 percent on Monday, after a week-long break that was preceded by an increase in Chinese banks' required reserves and during which the U.S. Federal Reserve raised its discount rate.

Investigators looking into Web attacks on Google and dozens of other American companies last year have traced the intrusions to computers at Jiaotong as well as an obscure vocational school in eastern China, according to people briefed on the case.

The Times recently reported on the rise of Chinese-language instruction in American schools, a push supported by aid from the Chinese government. While language fads come and go — there was Russian during the cold war, then Japanese in the 1980’s, then Arabic after 9/11 — thousands of public schools have stopped teaching foreign languages in the last decade. Is the boom in Chinese language education going to last?

The final touches are being put on the Japan Industry Pavilion, which is said to be the biggest pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010, which runs from May 1 until Oct 31.

With 7,200 square meters of floor space, the pavilion is now being fitted with interior decorations and display items. Officials said work is proceeding around the clock.

SIMA Guang, a historian, writer and politician in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), was a household name in China.

Though he was not famous for calligraphy, one of his writings is exhibited in the Shanghai Museum because of his special and significant status in Chinese history.

BY 38, Du Yuesheng had made it big in the opium and gambling business. The most feared mobster of old Shanghai was raking in 10,000 silver dollars monthly and sometimes even 10 times more from other side incomes.

SHANGHAI - He's mastered the role of a mutant with metal claws - but foreign languages are a tall order for Hugh Jackman. The Australian actor who rose to fame by playing the superhero Wolverine in the "X-Men" series is in Shanghai to shoot scenes for director Wayne Wang's "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan," in which his character breaks into song - in Chinese.

The new cars and concepts have exterior contours that comport to Chinese ideas of balance, with interior colors and fabrics designed to signify status and evoke respect. The controls for entertainment and climate systems might even be moving to the back seat, because truly wealthy people don’t drive, they have drivers.

Thirty years ago, the People’s Republic of China was an automotive backwater. Today it’s the biggest market in the world, having just eclipsed the United States. So, its consumers are demanding the best from automotive designers.

The explosive growth of the Chinese market, where consumers bought 17 million new cars last year compared to about 10 million in the United States, has been a bright light in an otherwise dark time for the auto industry. As the traditional markets of North America, Europe and Japan stagnate or decline, automakers have seen their sales in China double and double again.