One piece of domestic and foreign news from January 26 to January 29, 2012

Sri Lanka will hold a presidential election on January 26.

On January 27th, the 40th "World Economic Forum" opened in Davos, a small city in eastern Switzerland. The theme of this conference is "Improving the State of the World—Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild."

On January 27th, the elected President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, was officially sworn in at the National Stadium in Tegucigalpa, the capital of the country.

On January 27, US President Obama delivered his first State of the Union address after taking office.

January 28 - A gas explosion occurred in a building in Liege, a city in eastern Belgium, killing 7 people and injuring 21 others.

On January 28, the verdict of the "Qingquan" case involving many French politicians was pronounced in Paris, and former French Prime Minister De Villepin was found not guilty.

January 28 - The third meeting of the 10th Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference opened.

January 30 - Guangzhou South Railway Station (Guangzhou New Passenger Station) was officially opened. It is the southern starting point of the Wuhan-Guangzhou Express Line.

January 31 – Afghan President Karzai rejected the Taliban’s peace talks conditions.

On January 31, the 14th African Union Summit opened at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

February 1—The third meeting of the 10th Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference concluded.

On February 2nd, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka announced that Rajapaksa, who was re-elected in the presidential election held last week, will start his second term on November 19th this year.

On February 3, the Greek Parliament voted to elect the new president of Greece. The current President Papoulias received 266 votes out of the 300 seats in the parliament and was re-elected as the President of Greece.

February 4 - Sun Mian, a member of the Chinese mountaineering team who was trapped in the virgin forest of Indonesia, sent a message saying that seven members of the mountaineering team had been rescued.

Two Chinese giant pandas, Taishan and Meilan, who were born in the United States one by one on February 4, took a special plane from Washington Dulles International Airport and embarked on a journey home while the American people were reluctant to say goodbye.

On February 5th, the 46th Munich Security Policy Conference opened at the Bavarian Manor Hotel in Munich, Germany.

February 6 - The Zhengzhou-Xi'an high-speed railway was officially opened, shortening the time from Zhengzhou to Xi'an to two hours.

February 7—Guangzhou’s first BRT bus rapid transit system—Zhongshan Avenue BRT—opened.

February 7 - Costa Rica held a presidential election. Laura Chinchilla, the presidential candidate of the ruling National Liberation Party, announced that she had won the presidential election and became the first female president in the country's history.

February 7 - Ukraine held the second round of voting in the presidential election.

February 8 - Ukrainian presidential election candidate and opposition leader Yanukovych announced that he had won the election and urged his rival and current Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to resign.

February 8 - The U.S. space shuttle Endeavor was successfully launched into space. This time Endeavor carried a crew of six.

February 8 - An explosion occurred at a power plant under construction in Middletown, Connecticut, USA, killing 5 people and injuring 12 others.

February 8 - China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines held a joint reorganization work summary meeting, announcing that the joint reorganization of China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines was successfully completed, and business cooperation between the two parties has been extensively carried out.

February 10 - Afghan government officials said that multiple avalanches have occurred in the Salang Pass in northern Afghanistan's Parwan Province in recent days, killing at least 165 people.

February 10th—The Chinese men’s football team defeated the South Korean team 3:0 in the East Asian semi-finals, ending a 32-year history of not defeating the South Korean team in international A-level events.

On February 10, relevant parties on the Western Sahara issue began to hold informal negotiations in Westchester County, New York, USA.

February 11—In the voting for the 122nd International Olympic Committee Plenary Session held in Vancouver, Nanjing surpassed its bid rival Poznan of Poland and won the second Olympic Games in 2014 with a slight advantage. Hosting of the Summer Youth Olympic Games.

The 21st Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver, Canada from February 12th to 28th.

February 13th - the opening of the 2010 Spring Festival Gala

February 16th - at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Chinese players Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the gold medal with a record 216.57 points Won the Olympic gold medal in pairs skating, breaking the Russian captain’s 42-year monopoly on the gold medal in this event. After 18 years of cooperation, they finally won the first figure skating Olympic gold medal in Chinese sports history! This is also the first gold medal won by the Chinese delegation at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.

February 17th - In the women's 500m short track speed skating final at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Chinese female athlete Wang Meng won the championship in 43.048 seconds, achieving two consecutive championships and creating Chinese Winter Olympics history. Canada's Saint-Glass won the runner-up with a time of 43.707 seconds, and Italy's Fontana won the bronze medal with a time of 43.804 seconds