More overseas Chinese students and scholars are expected to seek jobs in their homeland as the global financial crisis intensify.

　　You Weishun, director of the North America Chinese Scholars International Exchange Center said that as the crisis spreads more to economic entities, Chinese students and scholars in the Unite States, and some Chinese Americans working in Wall Street are showing more intentions of coming back.

　　The center, which has been organizing job fairs almost every year for overseas Chinese students and scholars since 2000, will hold another job fair in Washington between May the 8th and 10th.

　　You said this year's fair is expected to attract a record 3,000 applicants. Government agencies, corporations and research institutes from major Chinese cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Chongqing, will attend the fair.

　　Meanwhile, Huang Weimao, an official of the Shanghai human resources and social security bureau says Shanghai, China's financial hub, is in dire need of high-end personnel in the fields of finance, information technology, biological medicine and equipment manufacture.

　　China will increase the monthly subsidy to low-income households by 15 yuan, about 2 U.S. dollars for each urban citizen and 10 yuan for each rural resident in 2009, according to sources at the Ministry of Finance.

　　The central government spent 276 billion yuan on social welfare and employment last year, an increase of 19.9 percent on 2007.

　　The Minister of Finance Xie Xuren says the government hopes to strengthen social welfare and health care, providing higher subsidies for those on low incomes and a 10 percent increase in the basic retirement pension for enterprise retirees.

　　The increase in people's income would encourage consumption and boost economic growth, so that the economy would be kept at a steady and sustainable pace.

　　The standards for low-income subsidies in China vary in different regions. In Beijing, low-income citizens can receive a monthly subsidy of 410 yuan, while a farmer receives 170 yuan a month.

　　3D films may soon no longer be the sole province of movie studios with big budgets.

　　A UK firm has been showing off a way for home users to make and share their own 3D films.

　　It's a webcam with two lenses that mimics human sight and turns the images it captures into 3D footage.

　　Manchester-based PDT has created the Minoru webcam that has two lenses set roughly the same distance apart as human eyes. Software included with the webcam turns the two images into what is known as an anaglyph. To see the footage in 3D, viewers must wear spectacles with red and blue lenses. This ensures that only one of the two images being shown is seen by each eye and forces the brain to turn them into a moving 3D image. DIY 3D movies shot with the Minoru can be shared on YouTube and elsewhere online.