Wednesday, October 08, 2003

• Air passengers top two million during national holiday
• Returned students help China's modernization: official
• Rail travelers reach 36.57m in China's "Golden Week"
• China, Vietnam hold seminar on party theories
• Japanese camp for US POWs to be preserved in NE China

• Over 70 science parks attract 15,000 returned students for businesses
• Collective and private enterprises, an important force of China's foreign trade
• AFTEX to hold show in Hong Kong for 5 years
• Improving farmers' access to bank loans
• Preferential policies for foreign investment remain intact in China
• UBS: China has no economy-wide bubbles
• ASEAN leaders endorse free trade bloc
• 2nd international toy fair to be held in Shanghai
• Mainland's "golden week" boosts HK's holiday economy
• Shanghai receives gas via West-East Gas Pipeline 
• Hunan chalks in US$2.38 billion from foreign trade
• Wal-Mart vs. All-China Federation of Trade Unions
• Beijing sees rise in domestic tourism earnings

• China's remarkable growth not threat for Japan: Koizumi
• Two senior Chechen officials killed after presidential election
• ASEAN to establish single community by 2020
• China joins Treaty of Amity, Cooperation in Southeast Asia
• Arnold Schwarzenegger Wins 
• Explosion hits Iraqi foreign ministry in Baghdad
• Arafat swears in new Palestinian cabinet
• 2003 Nobel Physics Prize announced
• Israel says it will strike at enemies wherever they are
• US rejects DPRK's demand to exclude Japan from six-party talks
• Turkish Parliament adopts motion on sending troops to Iraq
• 11th Uganda Int'l Trade Fair opens
• Californians cast ballots in historic recall vote
• Premier Wen calls for speedy development, close cooperation
• Chinese premier meets leaders of Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand
• China urges to consider interests of developing world
• ASEAN+China, Japan, ROK (10+3) summit held 
• Chinese, ROK leaders discuss Korean nuke issue
• DPRK bars Japan from future talks on nuke issue on Korean Peninsula
• French president Chirac hails partnership with China
• China, Japan vow to continue cooperation

• Bali Concord II, historic step toward regional integration

• Report: China to launch manned space flight on Oct. 15
• HK developing localized version of GPS
• Tsinghua university cuts links with enterprises
• China, ASEAN sign MoU on ICT cooperation

• Symposium to be held for raising women's soccer to new heights

• Sun Tzu Cultural, Tourism Festival opens in E. China
• Beijing sees boom in "golden week" weddings
• Art show marks founding anniversary of new China
• Chinese calligrapher won lawsuit against Dow Jones
• Film-maker Zhang Yimou promotes Beijing
• 23.4 million empty nesters struggle to live alone
• Pop stars to join Shanghai Int'l Arts Festival
• Liquor ban draws ire of passengers
• Tokyo to launch probe into Zhuhai hotel orgy
• Beijing's suburbs benefit big from holiday
• Laid-off woman weaves happy life through Chinese Knots