Wednesday, November 12, 2003

• British deputy PM: Think UK to encourage UK-China partnership
• Taiwan's Chen Shui-bian gets tough warning
• Seventy percent of college graduates find jobs
• Coal mine accident kills five, injures 24 in Shaanxi
• China-Australia ties to grow: President Hu
• CTIC president goes on trial
• Chinese youth faced with threat of HIV virus
• Improvement on agricultural produce markets urged
• State standard on housing quality assessment to be issued
• More political dialog, economic cooperation needed for China-UK relations: vice premier
• Grain price hike to farmers' best interest
• US sticks to one China policy: US ambassador

• Six changes in conditions backing China's economic growth
• HK outperforms Singapore in salary rises
• China stands out in Volkswagen's global sales
• US$43.56b overseas investment used in first 10 months
• Investors encouraged to buy China's big state firms
• WTO entry spurs China's economic expansion
• Women graduates face hurdles in tight job market 
• Two groups of China's carriers to buy 30 Boeing planes
• Chinese, British experts discuss airport cooperation
• WTO to establish Asia-Pacific training center in HK
• HK Trust Fund for SARS ready to receive applications

• At least 12 killed in attack on Italian police base in Iraq
• Al Qaida poses threat to Bush's visit to Britain: report
• Strong earthquake hits Tokyo
• Sri Lankan President, PM meet
• Chirac, Putin to meet in Paris to cement strong bilateral ties
• IAEA: Iran secretly made nuclear material
• S.Korea launches 3rd 4,000 ton-class 'stealth' destroyer
• Sihanouk proposes choosing next king by simple majority
• NATO, EU to conduct first joint exercise
• US Senate votes to approve sanctions on Syria
• US sticks to one China policy: US ambassador
• DPRK demands US compensation for suspension of reactor construction
• 20 suspects of al-Qaida links held in Iraq
• Qurei agrees to meet with Israeli officials
• US opposes 27.5 pct tariff on China-made goods
• DPRK proposes talks with Japan to redress human rights abuses
• UK demonstrators critical of possible ban ahead of Bush's visit

• "Premier Wen helps recover my payment!" 
• Comment: Japan enters an era of two-party system
• Internet changes life in China: News focus
• Bush tries to push same old rhetoric
• Deflation, not inflation, in the wind

• Charter for proposed Asia-Pacific space group passed in Beijing
• China, France bid for SARS vaccine
• Sci-tech base, experts' park to be built in Beihai, Guangxi
• Scientists honoured for global contribution
• Public participation invited in science plan
• Yale seeks greater role in Chinese education: Yale president

• Kasparov draws first game vs 'X3D Fritz' computer 
• Martin withdraws from China Open badminton event
• Second seed Jonassen ousted in China open badminton
• Chinese superteam departs for weightlifting worlds

• 150 million yuan allocated to relieve disaster-hit schools
• Shanghai commemorates Sun Yat-sen
• Mainland to facilitate festival family reunions of Taiwan businessmen
• China's sexual revolution: CNN report
• AIDS-infected criminal suspect detained in Hubei
• Jilin promotes use of alcohol fuel
• Web site for old revolutionary base opened
• Philanthropy becomes more popular
• Dead firemen's families to share 6 million yuan fund
• Good order, civic manners key to preventing subway mishaps, experts