Friday, December 13, 2002

• More Leaders Greet Hu Jintao on Election as CPC Leader
• White Paper on Defense Allows Better Appreciation
• Hopes for Indirect Cross-Straits Flights are Fading
• Curbing Poverty: a Long-term Mission in China
• Vice Premier Calls for Better Social Security, More Jobs 
• China's FM Meets US Deputy Secretary of State
• China's Anti-poverty War Needs Policy Support: Official
• China, Kyrgyzstan Issue Joint Press Communique
• China Willing to Promote Sino-Libya Relations: Official
• Chinese Vice-premier Meets Kyrgyz FM 
• Qinghai-Tibet Railway Faces Toughest Challenge
• Bush Greets Jiang on Reelection as Chairman of CPC Central Military Commission
• CPC Decision Makers Discuss Helping Needy
• Qian, Armitage Pledge to Expand China-US Ties

• China Sees Consumer Price Decline in November
• US Investment Managers Impressed by HK's Potential
• Beijing to Build TV Center Towering Over CBD
• Super-Light Airplanes Available Coming Year in Shenyang
• Chinese, Italian Banks Sign Cooperation Agreement

• OPEC Ready to Help Venezuela Fill Oil Orders
• 119 People Die of Cholera in Uganda
• Inter-Korean Economic Institution Meeting Ends without Agreement
• US Unveils Program to Promote Reforms in Mideast
• US Claims Iran Building Secret Nuclear Facilities
• Russia Expresses Concerns over DPRK's Restoration of Nuclear Program
• US School Teacher to Fly in Space Next Year
• New Crack Found in US Shuttle Plumbing
• EU to Complete Enlargement Negotiations, Fix Date for Talks on Turkey
• NY to Spend US$10 Bn to Rebuild Lower Manhattan
• US Says DPRK Nuclear Decision "Regrettable"
• US Suspects Iraqis Give Nerve Agent to al-Qaeda
• Germans will Man AWACS Planes in Case of War: Schroeder
• S. Korea Expresses Great Concern over DPRK's Nuclear Reactivation

• Global Times: Why NATO Doesn't Want to Accept Russia?
• "Unexpected Good" Result in Economy 2002: Yearend Review 
• Expert Deciphers White Paper on National Defense

• China Air Force Equipped with J-10 Fighter-bomber
• China Unveils Rules for Easier Access to Domain Names
• China to Remote Sense Mysterious Tomb of First Emperor
• China Pinpoints Terra-Cotta Warriors' Production Site

• Beijing to Host an Olympics with its Own Characteristics

• Foreigners Elected "Community Premiers" in Shanghai
• Peking Man Site of Further Research Value 
• Chinese Rural Women Speak Up on Sex
• Renowned Chinese Architect Granted Prince Claus Award