Tuesday, May 06, 2003

• FM spokeswoman: China sends diplomats to Baghdad for embassy site checkup
• Wu Yi: China Hopes for Further Cooperation with US on SARS
• Chinese Mainland Reports 138 New SARS Cases on May 6
• CIRC Approved "Insurance for Atypical Pneumonia"
• Official Announces Detailed Data on SARS in Beijing  
• Beijing Adopts Computer System to Track Virus Carriers
• Expert Expects Possible Decline of SARS Cases in Beijing
• Task of Fighting SARS Remains Arduous and Complicated: Premier 
• Chinese Military Leaders Meet with Relatives of Dead Submarine Crew  
• South China Province Hit by Drought
• Sichuan Province Sends 1.7 million Civil Servants for Extra Training
• Senior HK Policeman Dies in Flooding Accident
• Dragon Boat Championships to go Ahead in HK as SARS Cases Reducing
• Food Quality Guaranteed in Beijing's Markets During May Day Holidays

• E. China Province Sees Increase in Foreign Trade
• SARS Virus Infects China's Economy

• Algerian President Fires PM
• Australian Governor-General Pressured to Quit
• Pakistani PM Ready to Go to India if Needed
• British Manufacturing Set to Cut 68,000 Jobs in First Half of 2003
• University of California Bars Students from SARS Areas
• Sinha, Powell to Hold Talks in Moscow
• US to Hold Largest Homeland Security Exercise: Newspaper
• African Leaders to Break Political Stalemate in Zimbabwe
• US Suggests Russia to Take Part in Talks over DPRK's Nuclear Issue
• Deadly Tornadoes Kill 33 in Central US
• Powell Denies US Policy Shift on DPRK Nuclear Issue

• E. China Province to Set up Bone Marrow Bank

• China Resorts to New Ozonosphere-friendly Measure
• Northwest China to See Increased Precipitation by 2050, Experts Predict