Wednesday, September 24, 2003

• Chinese, Russian PMs hold talks
• Joint communique issued after Sina-Russian PM meeting
• Foreigners allowed to hear local parliamentary meetings for first time
• Chinese premier meets SCO prime ministers
• Trade unions call for more attention to workplace safety
• Chinese top legislator meets Polish guests
• Hu Jintao speaks highly of SCO PM talks  
• "Three Represents" is Marxism for contemporary China: official 
• Constitutional development in HK's interest: official

• Crude oil pipeline invested in E. China with section on seabed
• Russia will honor pipeline deal with China: Russian PM
• China's short-term debt rise acceptable: analysts
• China to export big cement production line to Pakistan
• China's grid giant gives shares to Huaneng company
• Focus: 'The last land grab in China'
• China's auto output jumps
• Nortel announces US$200 million investment in China
• Boeing Business Jets soar into China

• One Iraqi killed, some 20 wounded in Baghdad blast
• Two Japanese opposition parties merge ahead of elections
• Chirac chides US unilateralism
• Bush faces pressures over Iraq policy
• Chinese FM urges US to lift export restrictions
• Chinese FM meets Rumsfeld on Sino-US ties
• Iraqi government bans two Arab news stations
• DPRK rejects resolution to dismantle nuke programme
• Bush's UN speech only encourages Israel: Palestinian official
• Indian gov't to hand over "Agni" missiles to army
• Canada's Governor General visits Russia
• Annan: UN at crossroads
• Philippine military on red alert before Arroyo's foreign trip
• Death toll in India's Bihar floods mounts to 179
• 49 dead, 30 injured in bus crash near Uganda-Rwanda border
• US, France fail to bridge differences over Iraq

• Precision logistics, focus of PLA logistics changes
• Don't take "curtain-rise" of HK tours for "curtain-fall"
• Japan must show accountability: commentary
• Taiwan authorities condemned for tampering with history
• History class move a vicious ploy: commentary

• Bulgaria, China sign cooperation agreement in education
• China develops first solid-fuel launch vehicle
• China's largest wafer plant opens in Shanghai
• China-made environmental monitors now introduced

• Australia coach: we have chance to beat China
• Sun Wen fit for Australia game
• NBA star-led Chinese team steamroll Syria 103-51 
• China coach Ma predicts hard game against Australia
• China captain Sun Wen vows to fight with injury
• China wins 19 golds in Asian athletics
• Chinese women renew Asian record in 4X400m relay
• Chinese national games for disabled feature 52 world marks
• Chinese sets Asian record in 400m hurdles
• Experts hail Olympic torch relay over mount Qomolangma
• China keeps a clean sheet at Asian women's volleyball  

• British design exhibition to be held in Beijing Oct.10-19
• Russian culture festival to be held in Beijing in October
• Photo exhibition in Beijing retraces Marco Polo's China tour
• Two Chinese students arrested for murder of Japanese family
• Chinese film festival opens in Myanmar
• Landslide traps 12 in NW China
• Microsoft's MSN to shut down
• Classroom collapses, injuring 15 students in NW China
• China's old, new go on the road
• TCM has great prospects in dealing with HIV/AIDS
• Chinese culture to show along "Silk Road"
• More traditional Beijing courtyards to be protected