Friday, August 15, 2003

• China's Legislature to Discuss 3 Laws on Banking Business
• China Condemns Falun Gong Cult's Hijacking Satellite
• Causes of Fireworks Factory Blast in E. China Pinpointed
• Falun Gong Cult Devotees Hijack Chinese TV Satellite
• China's Top Legislator Meets Thai Princess
• Hospitalized Victims of Japanese Chemical Weapons Rise to 41
• 58th Anniversary of Japan's Surrender Marked in China
• Taiwan Leader's New Three-stage Plan Condemned
• Women a Rising Force in China's Politics
• China Willing to Make Six-party Nuclear Talks Successful: Chinese FM
• Flooded Coal Mine Death Toll Hits 27 In East China
• Chinese State Councilor Meets With Thai Princess
• Premier Wen Urges Good Work in Water Diversion Project 
• China Expresses Concern over Escalating Tension in Middle East

• 24m Chinese Urban Residents Need Jobs This Year
• Official's Elucidation on China's Reform of Interest Rate Marketization
• Global FDI Influx to China Ranks the World's First
• China Focuses on Five Sectors for Growth
• China Faces Tightening Technical Trade Barriers: Official
• China Sets Up First Financial Leasing Society
• China Apt to Continue Prudent Monetary to Curb Excessive Growth of Bank Credit
• Invitations for CIFIT Going Smoothly: Vice Mayor of Xiamen
• HK Exchange Fund Reports Decrease in Foreign Assets
• China Telecom Reaches Top of World

• Cambodia's FUNCINPEC Ministers Absent from Cabinet Meeting
• Koizumi Marks Japan's Role for World Peace
• 4 Japanese Cabinet Ministers Pay Visit to Yasukuni Shrine
• S.Korea Military must Become Fully Self-reliant: Roh
• France Reports 3,000 Heat-related Deaths
• Bush: Power Needs to be Restored as Soon as Possible
• Massive Outage Forces US to Close 7 Nuke Power Plants
• Power Blackout in US, Canada not Related to Terrorism
• Massive Blackouts Cut Power to 10 Million Canadians
• Roundup: US Forces' Apology Turned down by Shiites
• Iran to Construct 2nd Phase of Bushehr Atomic Power Plant
• Report Faults FBI Deficiencies for Hanssen Spy Case
• US Gives up Idea of Bigger UN Role in Iraq: Newspaper
• Second Man Involved in Sept. 11 on Trial in Germany
• Iraq to Send New Diplomats to 7 Foreign Countries Soon
• Liberian Rebels Hand over Monrovia Port to Peacekeepers
• S.Korean President Meets with Chinese FM
• Japan Toxic Experts to Visit China's Qiqihar
• US Troops Enter Capital of Liberia

• There's Need to Change over to New Ways: Int'l Notes
• Disgraced Official Highlights Chinks in System
• Analysis of Japan 2003 White Paper on Defense 
• Don't Shift the Blame onto Others: Economic Observation
• Rising Jobless Rate a Test for Government: Commentary

• India Plans Mission to Moon Before 2008: Vajpayee
• WHO, FAO Experts in Guangdong to Study SARS' Links to Animals
• Graduates of Private Colleges Popular in Beijing's Job Market

• Abilities of Chinese Reserve Basketball Players Worrying
• Chinese Steel Makers Compete for Olympics
• Chinese Head Coach Confident of Upcoming Gymnastics Worlds

• China Mobilizes to Tackle Gender Imbalance
• Beijing to Stage Int'l Drama Season in September
• Experts Search for SARS Virus in China's Guangdong
• Giant Panda in China Gives Birth to Twins
• China to Stop Free Urban Heating Supply