Monday, October 20, 2003

• Yang Chuantang appointed acting governor of Qinghai
• China regrets convention of Tibet support groups in Czech
• China reports 21.7 percent rise in tax revenue
• Shanghai employs "gov't officials of US$1annual salary"
• China's first astronaut promoted

• Support for HK's economic development reaffirmed
• Foreign brands take up 78 percent of car lube market
• Expanding economic reforms imperative: Chinese economist
• Catering industry expected to grow by 12 percent
• Int'l trade fair on art performance opens in Shanghai
• Russia to increase oil export to China: Putin
• Tianjin sees rise in business overseas
• CDB grants loan for expressway construction in north China
• China's exports to Russia through Manzhouli quadruples
• PBOC issues regulation on foreign exchange agencies
• China to top charts as global tour mecca
• Shanghai shipyard has no equal
• Survey: Stable yuan is entrepreneurs' top concern
• China accelerates opening of tourism market
• WTO general assembly opens session in Beijing

• Russia's Soyuz docks with International Space Station
• No evidence to suggest SARS is airborne: WHO
• Diana "feared car accident plot": former royal butler
• Hu outlines China's ideas on improving APEC process
• Heart scare for Blair amid tough year over Iraq
• Bolivian president names new cabinet
• Three Somali delegates at peace talks murdered in Kenya
• Chinese, Vietnamese leaders agree to further ties
• Hu, Roh meet over Korean nuclear issue, bilateral ties
• Hu Jintao, Putin discuss Iraq, Korean nuclear issue
• Bush rules out peace treaty with Pyongyang
• Iraqi guerrillas kill 2 US soldiers
• Hu Jintao, Bush meet on issues of common concern 
• New president of Russia's Chechnya sworn in
• PBEC to move international headquarters to Hong Kong
• Saudi Arabia willing to help solving India-Pak Kashmir dispute
• President Hu: China willing to advance ties with Canada
• Putin urges for strengthening negotiations on DPRK nuclear issue
• Political leaders address growth, trade at APEC CEO Summit
• US plans to reduce forces in Iraq next year: report

• Why Japanese government rejected the "9.29" ruling?
• India's after joint military maneuver with China

• China opens pilot higher education to female students
• More than 80 percent of computers in China hit by viruses: survey
• China's higher education accessible to the masses: minister
• Sino-Brazilian satellite to gather new science data
• 2003 China Int'l Educational Exhibition starts in Beijing
• Third world science academy meeting issues Beijing Declaration
• China contributes to third world sci-tech cooperation
• Chinese astronaut took "electronic secretary" to space

• IOC member foresees no sports change in Beijing Games
• China, South Korea drawn into "Group of Death" for Olympic qualifiers
• China's F1 hopes could go up in smoke
• Sports stars sparkled in Star City

• International symposium on SARS held in Vietnam
• Scroll depicting 130 Beijing Opera artists completed
• Chinese private businessmen better educated
• Town struck by second earthquake in three months
• Marital marches beguile Beijing
• International art festival under way
• Celebration held for China's first museum
• Former home of ancient Tibetan man of letters found
• Guangzhou restaurants given go-ahead to serve civet cat