Wednesday, October 29, 2003

• General manager executed for embezzling public funds in Chongqing
• Former "council speaker" of Kaohsiung not hiding in China's mainland
• China's ministry-run prison caps successful first year
• Nation anticipates generally normal winter wheat sowing
• Chinese gov't opposes Taiwan's separatism, referendum
• Japanese lawyers to China for lawsuit evidences on Japanese chemical weapon injury
• EU trade commissioner vs. netizens in Strong China Forum on Oct.30
• Quake survivors in NW China battling low temperatures
• Fifth generator at Three Gorges starts formal operation
• Chinese top legislator leaves Beijing for DPRK
• A Lot on the Plate for Sino-EU Summit
• NPC approves road traffic, securities laws 
• Lead-zinc mine collapse kills 7 people in south China
• China to draft law on public order, civil servants
• Premier Wen Jiabao urges ample grain production
• China to expand imports from US: Premier Wen 
• Top legislator demands to strengthen law enforcement
• Delegation of China's manned space mission to visit HK
• China pays last tribute to Madame Soong Mei-ling

• United Commercial Bank establishes branch in HK
• Govt delegation to go shopping in US
• US, China to establish textile consultation mechanism
• Fund injection planned in big-4 banks
• Telecom service revenue grows over 22 percent yearly during 1998-2002
• China plans to purchase US goods in a big way
• Shanghai recruiting HK managers
• Initial price hike in six years augurs a grain shortage peak in 2005
• What's behind 500m phone users: News analysis
• Tibet striving to narrow income gap: local official
• China's trade surplus to dive in 2004: report
• Sony plans to trim 20,000 jobs worldwide
• Digital China opens software center in Shanghai
• Leading credit insurer launches Beijing office
• China urges US to lift export limitations to erase trade deficit
• Loan growth begins to slow down
• Sina nets US$32 m in revenues
• 2004 gains of foreign trade to be offset by rebate
• China's economy sizzles as experts ponder sustaining growth
• China Machinery and Electronics Fair to be held in S. Africa
• China to meet needs of private investment in mining by revising law

• India tests anti-ship cruise missile
• Japanese woman in DPRK asylum bid
• China, US defense ministers held highest-level meeting
• China's top legislator arrives in DPRK for official visit 
• US to resume limited contacts with Iran: official
• Bush urges Congress to approve 87 billion dollar bill for Iraq, Afghanistan operations
• Wildfires threaten Los Angeles
• Arafat asks PM Qureia to stay in job, form new government
• East African NEPAD ministerial meeting opens in Kenya
• Thai troops to be sent to Iraq for reconstruction despite violence
• N.Ireland poll goes ahead as scheduled: Blair
• Russia presses Ukraine over disputed border island
• US Fed holds key short-term interest rate at 45-year low
• Two CIA contractors killed in Afghanistan

• Business Week: Is China's boom in danger?

• Ins and outs of "China-US human cloning experiment" dispute
• New Stone Age human skeleton discovered in Beijing
• China's next manned space launch will carry three
• EU, China to sign up to Galileo agreement
• China to revise law on compulsory education

• China to host world boxing championships
• Asia keeps pace in Afro-Asian Games

• British scholar receives Chinese environment award
• Expert warns about high birth defection in China
• Centenary of birth of Deng Xiaoping to be commemorated
• Global survey: Chinese women sexiest
• New government hotline to handle housing complaints
• Road accident kills four, injures three in Jiangsu
• Culture relics protection law effective: official
• New Taoist Scripture completed in Beijing