Wednesday, December 10, 2003

• Beijingers cast votes for deputies of district People's Congresses
• Chinese leaders vote for Beijing's grass-roots congress deputies
• Top 10 judges to be selected
• China invites int'l involvement in eliminating violence against women
• China strongly condemns Moscow explosion
• Former vice-governor of Anhui inquisited for taking bribes
• Chen Shui-bian defies warning from Bush
• China makes donation to back APPU efforts in needy areas
• Strong quake shakes Taiwan, no casualties reported
• Former banker sentenced 12 years in prison
• APPU executive council annual conference opens in China
• Israeli president to visit China
• UN Human Rights Prize Winner devotes life to humanism
• Dialogue, not barriers, makes a win-win deal
• New chairman of Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of HK elected

• Spaceships instead of guns: military factories tap civil market
• China's economy feels pinch of power shortage
• China's steel output tops 200 million tons this year
• HSBC sees expansion in personal lending
• Thin trading slashes securities firms' profit
• IT upgraded for CEPA
• Great Wall IPO nets US$194m on hot buy
• Futures exchange turnover doubled in Nov.
• Yangtze to have expensive bridge
• Foreign-funded companies allowed into China's advertising market by year-end
• Xinhua Finance to buy U.S.-based Market News
• China's logistics reforms under way
• China's human capital investment lower than the world average: Nobel Prize winner
• German trade with China booms
• Shanhgai reports speedy industrial growth this year
• China Southern Airlines sets five new enterprises
• Hotel concerned over service quality
• South China's Guangdong to sell off uninhabited islands
• Audi sales soar in China
• Bid to broaden capital base
• Experts: Oil price hikes good for market
• New accounting rules ensure world norms met
• China provides Malaysia with good market: Malaysian PM
• Indonesia-China capital market watchdogs establish cooperation
• Chinese-German MOX project for peaceful purposes
• International Investment Trade Conference commences in HK
• Credible conditions for investors to be built

• Islamic Jihad temporarily accepts 1967 Palestinian borders
• Wen meets Cheney, Stevens, Greenspan, Scowcroft 
• Chinese premier, US president meet on ties, int'l issues
• Full text of speech by Premier Wen Jiabao at a dinner
• Premier Wen: China, US are friends, but not rivals
• Iraqis strongly oppose deployment of NATO troops
• Iran approves signing of protocol on snap nuclear inspections
• Russia to hold presidential election on March 14, 2004
• Georgia hopes for immediate talks with Russia on military bases
• Sri Lankan president, PM to hold crucial talks
• Wen makes four proposals to promote Sino-US relations
• Sino-Ethiopian relations enters new stage: Chinese ambassador
• Premier Wen urges US to handle Taiwan issue properly
• New Canada PM eyes better US ties, but problems loom
• DPRK seeks agreement for aid, concessions
• Russian president against changing constitution
• Japanese cabinet approves sending troops to Iraq 
• Insurgents inflict "black day" on US forces in Iraq
• Memo finds no basis for child abuse allegations against Jackson
• Pak-Afghan-Turkmen gas pipeline feasibility report to be finalized
• Six killed in downtown Moscow suicide car bomb
• Bush says he opposes referendum on Taiwan 
• Bush holds welcome ceremony for Chinese premier 
• Chinese premier on Taiwan policy
• Wen, Bush agree to further enhance Sino-US relations 

• Why Zimbabwe issue dominates Commonwealth meeting?
• "Defensive referendum" a blatant provocation to "cross-strait" relations

• Top research body organizes lecture on innovation
• Oral exam on doctoral thesis held for prisoner in Beijing
• Astronaut Yang Liwei tries to protect his image
• Clue found to uncover mystery of gunpowder invention
• Experts: ancient China tried to seek strategic partnership through navigation
• Sights set on China's sci-tech development
• German venture launches lab in China's Shanghai
• China's railways sector to expand modern logistics
• Science popularization calls for international exchanges
• Japan gives up Mars exploration due to probe failure

• Beijing Olympics logo dances out of controversy
• FIFA apologizes for Tibet row
• Japan ousts South Korea, advances to last eight at WYC

• Expats working their way out in China
• Ancient Chinese papers aim for "Memory of the World"
• 2,000-year-old coffin unearthed in Chongqing
• China to establish network for non-governmental environmental protection organizations
• Bus collision kills five, injures 21 in south China
• Survey highlights metropolitan reading woes
• Beijing subway ventilation cleared of obstacles
• Xinjiang incurs huge losses from natural disasters
• 18th Asian Int'l Art Exhibition opens in HK