Tibetan children in traditional costume wave flowers at a gathering to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Tibet Autonomous Region in Lhasa yesterday.
The national flag of China is hoisted at the celebration meeting place in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. [
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Amid reports that Yao Ming has agreed to terms of a five-year contract extension worth more than $75 million, the Houston Rockets said they would conduct a conference call on Thursday.

The government's involvement in the information and communications technology (ICT) industry is crucial to the success of the country's efforts to become an ICT superpower, a leading researcher said yesterday.
The level of the government's role in the economy and local companies' ability to innovate will be the major factors affecting C

Hurricane-related disruptions also continued to have an impact far more worrisome for U.S. carriers than added costs and lost revenue from the flight turmoil: oil prices that spiked to record highs over $70.
"Overall the storm will hurt, but it's certainly not the same as the impact of rising oil prices," said Philip Baggaley, airline an

An Illinois auto museum is offering $1 million for the car in which actor James Dean died in 1955. The car's whereabouts are currently unknown.
Dean crashed the 1955 Porsche 550 Spyder on Sept. 30, 1955 on a California highway. The badly wrecked car was purchased by car customizer George Barris, who created the customized 1949 Mercury t

Several U.S. weather and news Web sites were deluged by heavy traffic as hordes of people went online seeking emergency information and news on Hurricane Katrina, which battered the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Weather.com was largely unavailable from 6 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. EDT on Sunday night, as the storm was approaching its Louisiana landfall, accor

NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, the location where space shuttle external tanks are assembled, has weathered the ravages of Hurricane Katrina, said the facility's spokesman on Tuesday.
While water leakage and damage at the facility has been reported, emergency teams at the site advised that the huge tanks appeared to be

The high school class of 2005 recorded what officials say are the highest-ever average scores on the math portion of the SAT college entrance exam, a modest jump from last year that comes amid conflicting data on the math skills of American students.
Seniors who finished high school last spring scored 520 out of a possible 800 on the mat

A Cuban militant and accused terrorist is not eligible for asylum in the United States but shouldn't be sent back to Cuba, a lawyer for the government told a judge in the opening day of the man's deportation hearing.
Luis Posada Carriles requested asylum after being arrested in May on charges that he sneaked into the country illegally th

Li Yuchun, voted "Super Girl" by the audiences throug

China's movie industry gathered for the annual Huabiao awards. This year's awards marked a century of Chinese cinema.
The three-hour gala, the awards ceremony for the 11th China Broadcast, Film and TV Huabiao Awards, was staged in Beijing. Huabiao refers to the decorative columns at the front of the Forbidden City.
The jury gave Best A

Google's entry this week into the IM space gave a high-profile shot in the arm to the open IM protocol XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). The decision to base Google Talk on the XML-based XMPP framework -- combined with Google's considerable market clout -- could shake up stalled IM interoperability efforts, or at the very least

WASHINGTON - How did paintings by Tintoretto and other Venetian Renaissance artists get their special glow? Using an electron microscope, Barbara Berrie, senior conservation scientist at the National Gallery of Art, discovered one of their secrets: tiny bits of glass the artists mixed with their pigments.
"By looking beyond the lim

A coalition of Internet phone providers asked federal regulators Thursday to extend a disconnection deadline that could lead to tens of thousands of customers losing service next week.
The Federal Communications Commission has set a Monday deadline for providers of Internet-based telephone calls to get acknowledgments from their Vo

DETROIT - General Motors Corp., looking to maintain the momentum of its hugely popular employee-pricing discount plan, has extended the promotion until Sept. 30. The world's largest automaker said Thursday the plan now includes select 2006 full-size trucks and sport utility vehicles, including Chevrolet's Avalanche and Tahoe, the GMC Yukon and t