The construction of the National Grand Theatre in China's capital is expected to be completed in July 2007, local government sources revealed on Sunday.

A roving Zoo Education Exhibition was launched Sunday in Hong Kong, which will provide visitors with a chance to learn more about rare reptiles.

China Daily, the only English Language national newspaper in the country, is to publish a report about Chinese experts who have denied the emerging of a new strain of bird flu in some part of the country.

School examination watchdog in Hong Kong was considering installing handset detectors in toilets and examination halls in schools to stop cheating in exams, according to news from the relative department on Sunday.

The first baby from a frozen embryo in East and Central Africa has been born in Uganda.

Somali pirates have hijacked a commercial vessel off the coast of the lawless nation, raising fears of resurgence of piracy after several months of lull activity.

Condom users in Zambia has increased to 49.6 percent in 2005 from 38.2 percent in 2003, according to the latest bulletin of the Central Statistics Office (CSO) of the country.

The risk of HIV transmission from an infected mother to her child in Zambia is around 40 percent, Zambia Daily Mail reported Saturday.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Saturday an estimated 7.8 million children across Sudan will be targeted in the next round of polio immunization campaign starting on Sunday.

Storm Cimaron is still hovering the central part of South China Sea after downgrading to a tropical depression, according to the Chinese Central Meteorological Station (CMS) on Saturday.