Hello and welcome to this edition of CRI Roundup on Saturday, April 21. I'm Qiu Wei in Beijing.
Let's take a look at some of the main events from China and the world over the last week.
More than 7 million tickets have been on sale since Sunday for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Organizers say 75 percent of the tickets are for domestic sale and the rest are for overseas.
Wang Wei, executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games said Olympics tickets will be affordable for the general public.
"The proposal of the ticket prices is made based on huge market research, public polls and statistical analysis. The tickets are affordable to the majority of people."
The most expensive tickets are for the opening ceremony, which cost 5,000 yuan, or some 650 US dollars.
Ticket prices for the 28 sports sessions range from 30 to 1,000 yuan, or about 4 to 130 US dollars.
Orders can be processed on the organizing committee's website and at 1,000 designated Bank of China branches.
However, tickets will not be delivered until June next year.
For events that are oversubscribed, recipients of the tickets will be picked by random selection.
For tickets outside China, the responsibility for distribution will be given to the respective national Olympic committees or their designated agents.