20 pct teens sexually active in Chinese city of Guangzhou

October 10th, 2009 Harvard to digitize 51,000 rare Chinese booksBOSTON — One of the most extensive collections of rare Chinese books outside China will be freely available as Harvard University has agreed to digitize the titles. Representatives from the Harvard College Library and the National Library of China signed a deal Friday to digitize more than 51,000 volumes in the Harvard collection.

October 2nd, 2009 Taiwan museum to open joint exhibition with ChinaTAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan's National Palace Museum said Friday it will open its first-ever joint exhibition with China next week, 60 years after they split amid civil war. The exhibition reunites treasures from China with those that Beijing has long said were stolen when they were taken to Taiwan.

October 1st, 2009 ALA's Top 10 list of "challenged" books of 2008Here is the American Library Association's list of top 10 most frequently challenged books of 2008, their author and the cited reasons: —"And Tango Makes Three," by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. Reasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group.

September 26th, 2009 'City of Life and Death' wins Spanish film awardSAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — Chinese director Lu Chuan's film "City of Life and Death" has won the top prize at Spain's San Sebastian Film Festival. The movie, a sensitive and balanced depiction of a traumatic moment in China's history known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, deals with a six-week period in 1937-38 following the Japanese capture of the Chinese city of Nanking.

August 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese man has been arrested and charged with raping a 91-year-old woman in Huizhou, Guangdong province. Wen, 44, a security guard at a private firm, allegedly barged into the old woman's house at 2 am and raped her, reports the China Daily.

August 10th, 2009 MELBOURNE - While it said that women become less sexually active as they get older, a new study has found that a large number of women aged 60 and above still enjoy a healthy sex life. Dr. Alison J. Huang, of the University of California at San Francisco, studied 1977 racially and ethnically women, aged 45 to 80 years old.

August 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A school-based program that talks about healthy relationships can significantly reduce adolescent dating violence, according to researchers. The program known as the 'Fourth R: Skills for Youth Relationships', for ninth-grade curriculum can also increase condom use two and a half years later.

July 21st, 2009 Bruce Lee's siblings authorize Chinese biopicsHONG KONG — Bruce Lee's older sister and younger brother have authorized a Chinese company to make a series of biographical films about the late kung fu icon, saying they want to produce a historically accurate account of their brother's life. Phoebe Lee and Robert Lee appeared at a signing ceremony with J.A.

July 16th, 2009 Gentler 'Bruno' to play in UK for younger teens LOS ANGELES — "Bruno" is getting a makeover in Great Britain so younger teens can see the movie. Universal Pictures UK is releasing an edited version of Sacha (SAH'-shuh) Baron Cohen's comedy that will tone down the racy moments so it can earn a 15 certification from the British Board of Film Classification.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two Chinese writers worked continuously for 48 hours to produce an "instant biography" of late King of Pop Michael Jackson. The 130,000-word book, titled 'Moonwalk in Paradise', has been written by Jiang Xiaoyu and Xing Han, and published by Chinese publishing house Xiandai.

July 6th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Teenagers are living a digital lie by faking their age, looks, and lives on the Internet, suggest a new study. According to the study, headed by a skincare products manufacturer, the rise of online social networking and net access is leading the teens to lead double lives.

July 2nd, 2009 BEIJING - All non-Chinese people will get free access to 12 major tourist sites in Anyang city, Henan province, under a new policy. According to the China Daily, Chinese citizens will not be given the same privilege that is designed to attract more foreign tourists, who are smaller in number than domestic travelers to the city.

June 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Family obligation-such as caring for siblings or helping elders-has been found to play a positive role in lowering teenage depression symptoms among Chinese-American adolescents in a new study. A research article on the study, published in the Journal of Family Psychology, reveals that 14-year-olds with a greater sense of family obligation were found to report fewer depressive symptoms by the time they reached 16.

May 29th, 2009 LONDON - Incarcerated Jack Tweed will be celebrating his release with a Chinese meal at his favourite floating Chinese restaurant, it has emerged. The 21-year-old former model has been serving 12 weeks for assault on a taxi driver at Edmunds Hill prison and will be freed today.

May 6th, 2009 Bristol Palin says abstinence best path for teensNEW YORK — Bristol Palin, arguably the nation's best-known unwed teen mother, embarked on a media tour Wednesday to argue that abstinence is a realistic way for teens to avoid unwanted pregnancy — a view not shared by the father of her infant son. Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Gov.