2008 Domestic Current Affairs 200

The Olympics are held in China. China's influence on world politics has been further strengthened.

Olympics,**,**, prices are skyrocketing, and the yuan is appreciating

Do you want that much? I'm only 10 years old.

Slovenia officially succeeded Portugal as the EU Presidency for the first half of 2008 on 1 January. This is the first time since the EU's massive enlargement in 2004 that a new member state has held the rotating presidency.

On the evening of February 10, a fire broke out in Chongnyemun, South Korea, and after nearly 5 hours of burning, the wooden structure of Chongnyemun, the No. 1 national treasure in South Korea, was completely burned down.

The Kosovo Assembly held a special session on 17 February and adopted a declaration of independence for Kosovo.

At its plenary session in Strasbourg, where its headquarters is located, on February 20, the European Parliament adopted a resolution ratifying the Treaty of the Reesbon Treaty, which is intended to replace the EU constitutional treaty, by a vote of 525 in favour, 115 against and 29 abstentions.

An international team of researchers reported April 17 in the British journal Nature that members of the team have discovered the mass of a black hole to date, which is 18 billion times the mass of the Sun, and there is a smaller black hole orbiting around it. The black hole, located about 3.5 billion light-years from Earth, is six times the mass of a previously discovered black hole, almost as mass as a small galaxy, and orbiting a small black hole 100 million times the mass of the Sun, according to a team of scientists from institutions such as Osaka Kyoku University in Japan and the University of Turku in Finland.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the first United Nations convention aimed at the comprehensive protection of the rights of persons with disabilities, entered into force on 3 May, and the rights of some 6.5 billion persons with disabilities in the world will be guaranteed in the form of an international convention.

At the age of 43, he will be the youngest in the Russian calendar to take the oath of office in the Kremlin in Moscow, taking over the flag, badge and nuclear lockbox that symbolize the power of the head of state from his predecessor Putin.

Late at night on May 28, local time, members of the Nepal Constituent Assembly passed a bill proposed by Nepal Provisional ** with 560 votes in favor and 4 votes against at the Birendra International Convention Center in Kathmandu, the capital, declaring Nepal a "Federal Democratic Republic", and at the same time abolishing the monarchy and requiring former King Gyanendra to move out of the Narayanhiti Palace within 15 days. Since then, the 239-year rule of the Shah dynasty of Nepal has officially come to an end, and Nepal has entered a new republican era after the turmoil of the past few decades.

The G-8 leaders' dialogue with the leaders of seven African countries and the African Union began to be held in Lake Toya, Japan, on 7 July, marking the official opening of the annual G-8 summit. The three-day meeting was held at a time when many difficult problems in the world economic and security situation and the threat of climate change to mankind were intensifying. Participants will discuss some of the hot-button issues in the areas of African development, climate change, the world economy, energy and food security, and international security.

On November 5, 2008, the two-year-long year of 2008 in the United States finally came to an end, and Obama won the victory by a landslide, becoming the 44th in the United States calendar and the first black person in the more than 200 years since the founding of the United States, thus opening a new page in American history.