People in China are finding their mobile phones are becoming more and more indispensable.

Not only can they make phone calls and send and receive short messages, but now they read daily newspapers from a single handset.

The new mobile newspaper was introduced Sunday by China Women Daily, a domestically circulated newspaper mainly targeting female readers. Major articles in the paper will be simultaneously be available on the subscribers' mobile phones. And believe it or not, a single handset can store a whole year's worth of the newspaper. Subscription fees are around twenty yuan per month, or some two and a half US dollars, about the same as the price of the printed edition.

(CCTV.com July 20, 2004)