Tuesday, December 09, 2003

• Famous stunt jumper Kor Shou Liang dies in Shanghai
• China creating conditions for 2nd round of six-party talks
• China's peacekeeping forces leave for Liberia
• Highway accidents kill 95,479 in first 11 months
• Top legislator meets Japanese youth delegation 
• UNEP holds forum on sustainable development
• Taiwan's defensive referendum manipulates democracy
• Death toll rises to 20 in coal mine blast
• Second part of late Chairman Mao's biography to be published

• Mainland grants zero-tariff for HK-made products
• China makes tariff over-haul, to further cut duties
• BEA hopes to loan RMB to mainland companies
• U.S., China sign shipping agreement
• Snow: Encouraged by China currency step
• Minsheng Bank to float H shares
• China urges US to export more to balance trade
• Forex interest rates lowered
• APPU executive council annual conference opens in China
• China faces overheating of steel industry
• Toyota pulls ads after complaints
• Trade deficit with China not cause for US job losses
• Top statistician vows to sharpen data quality
• China opens legal services market
• HK foreign currency reserves top US$114 billion
• Machinery, electronics fair across Taiwan strait set for next April
• Portrait, signature of China's first astronaut win legal protection
• Crocodile logo sparks new legal dispute
• More DPRK vessels engaged in border trade with China
• More NPLs hit the market
• Bank investment controls loosened
• China strives for healthy growth of auto industry
• Efforts in IPR protection praised by foreign investors
• China reforms state-owned enterprises through M&A

• Premier Wen meets with US Secretary of State Powell 
• Car bomb blast wounds 31 US soldiers in northern Iraq
• Qurei says Cairo dialogue has not failed
• Russian parliament elections usher in stronger presidential rule
• US official: Realignment of US military bases to start next year
• EU constitution talks fail to bridge rifts over key issues
• Premier Wen arrives in Washington to continue US trip
• China serious in honoring WTO rules, says premier 
• Premier Wen meets Henry Kissinger 
• US stages largest operation against Taliban
• Premier Wen urges stronger Sino-US ties 
• Pro-Putin party wins landslide in parliament election
• Bush signs sweeping Medicare reform bill
• EU threatens trade retaliation against US in tax row
• US slow to upgrade airport security systems: report
• Commonwealth summit ends under shadow of Zimbabwe issue
• Abu Sayyaf weaker after core leader's fall: Philippine military
• US soldier killed in Iraq, IGC names new female member
• Romania, Bulgaria to join EU in Jan. 2007
• Wen proposes principles on Sino-US trade, economic ties

• Chen Shui-bian changes tack over vote: Analysis
• It's no good for US to play game of balance

• China produces commercialized high-performance server
• Chinese lingual & cultural education officially enter US major schools for national education
• 10 reasons to put humans back on the Moon
• Book by former vice-premier on education published
• Scientists work out GM products detector
• Legend launches Chinese-language handheld computers
• China launches Internet Information Service Committee
• Advanced China-made CPU commercialized
• Asia's largest nuclear generators installed in East China
• China sets up first R&D center for aerial rescue equipment
• Ensure schooling for all children
• After 12 attempts, 39-year-old man goes to college
• Moon probe to blast off in 3 years: Chief scientists

• Qi Hui of China finishes her 5 golds winning trend
• "Diving Czar" Sautin not to retire until 2004 Olympics

• Spring season to see over 1.7 billion road passengers
• Bus crash kills 14, injures 43 in Tibet
• Serial killer sentenced to death in Henan
• Moonshine kills four in Yunnan