Monday, September 16, 2002

• Chinese Vice-premier Meets Latin American Diplomats
• Senior CPC Official Meets Former US Secretary of State
• Chinese President Addresses International Rice Congress
• CPC Cadre Delegation Leaves for Visit to Vietnam, Laos
• No.2 Generating Unit of Ling'ao Nuclear Power Plant Generates Electricity
• China, Kyrgyzstan Plan Anti-terrorism Exercise
• Change of Chinese People's Lives: Facts and Figures
• Earthquake Hits Taiwan
• Dozens Could Have Died in Food Poisoning in Nanjing 
• China's Western Development Makes Substantive Progress
• Chinese Media Launch New Programs to Welcome 16th CPC
• Senior Official Stresses Administering According to Law
• Earthquake Shakes Taiwan, no Casualties Reported
• China Since 1990: Facts and Figures Tell of Rising Prosperity

• Central Government to Invest 90 Billion Yuan in Tibet
• China is Short of Technical Workers
• Taiwan's Investments in Chinese Mainland Jumped by 47 Percent in First Half of Year
• China Reports 11% Growth in Tax Revenue
• China's Wine Consumption Rises
• IMF Supports China's Opening-up, Economic Reform
• China and EU Shore up Air Co-operation
• Chinese Bank Offers Loans for Individual Car Buyers
• Eastern Airlines Gets First Directly Bought Boeing 737
• Beijing, Hyundai to Co-produce Car in Two Months

• Chinese, Australian Legislatures to Promote Trade Ties 
• Palestinians Fear for Israel's Deportation of Arafat
• China-Vietnam Border Enters New Era: Vietnamese Official
• LTTE Wants Leading Role in Sri Lanka's North, East
• DPRK Flag Raised with Asian Games Media Center Opens
• Former S.Korean PM Announces Presidential Candidacy
• Inflation Reaches 135.1 Percent in Zimbabwe
• 2 Men, Woman Found Slain in SF Union City
• 14 Would-Be Migrants Die off Sicily
• South Korea Ready to Support US Strike on Iraq
• Sri Lankan Peace Talks Start in Thai Naval Base
• Putin's China Visit Most Important in Sino-Russian Ties This Year: Tang
• Arab Nations Press for UN Action on Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
• Saudi Arab: US Use of Bases Possible
• 2nd Group of Korean Separated Families to Have Reunions Today
• Iran Warns Against "Unbridled Use of Violence" in Combating Terrorism
• China Values Ties with African Countries: FM
• Arabs Work to Avert Iraq-US War
• URGENT: Swedish Ruling Coalition Wins General Election
• Macedonian Premier Concedes Defeat
• Bush Administration Says It Could Fight Two Wars
• Train Derails, Releases Sulfuric Acid Gas In US
• DPRK, South Korea Agree to Provide Military Guarantee for Relinking
• Japan Conducts Test Flight to Pyongyang
• Iran Threatens to Claim Compensation for Turkey's Halt of Gas
• First Half of S.Korea, DPRK Separated Family Reunions Ends
• Inter-Korea Talks on Railway, Road Reconnection Near Agreement
• US, British Warplanes Bomb Southern Iraq
• Family of Five Killed in House Explosion in US
• Cargo Ship on Fire in British Channel
• US Helps Iraq Build Biological Weapons in 1980s: Newsweek
• Fate of Burning Italian Ship in S. Africa to be Decided
• China Calls for Political Settlement of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

• Chen Shui-bien's Attempt to Steal Chicken Only Ends Up in Becoming Laughingstock

• Sony- Ericsson Looking to CDMA Licence in China
• HKSAR Communities Join Hands in Promoting Putonghua
• China Writes Major Chapter on World's Dinosaur Research

• Distraught Kournikova Downed in Final of Shanghai Open Tennis
• China Holds off Yugoslavia 72-65 at Women's Basketball Worlds 
• Italy Beats US to Win Women's Volleyball Worlds

• Miniascape Expo Scheduled for October in South China City
• World Renowned Musician Kenny G to Visit China
• China's First International Toy Expo Scheduled
• China Tibetan Culture Week Ends in Brussels